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Reports now show that Ryanair has just recently announce that it will open its first base in Norway. With the opening of this base, 1,700 jobs will be created. The budget airline said that the base will be made at Oslo Rygge Airport in March
The base, which will be established with $200 million, will get three new aircrafts and 16 new routes. These new aircrafts will come on top of the six that the carrier already has at the airport. The airline hopes that this new base will boost its annual traffic to the airport by 1.7 million passengers.
Michael O’Leary [...]

It now sounds like easyJet feels that a mandatory emissions standard should be made. The company feels that this would help to ensure a 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from the next generation of planes. The budget airline said that greener aircraft would be a lot more beneficial to the environment than continuing to tax the industry. This proposal comes just after a pledge was made by airlines in September to cut the industry’s CO2 emissions in half by 2050.
The chief executive of easyJet, Andy Harrison, said that aviation needs a global solution to emissions problems. The government’s first [...]

Reports now show that Sadiq Khan recently visited Farringdon station to check up on Network Rail’s progress on their £250 million scheme. The main plan is to transform the hub in Farringdon into one of the largest and busiest transport hubs in all of London.
While there, the transport minister was shown demolition work at Cardinal Tower, which is being taken down to make way for an integrated Crossrail and Thameslink ticket hall. The transport minister said that Farringdon sits at the heart of a major investment in London’s railway network. From this one hub, travelers will be able to traverse [...]

A recent survey by leading car hire firm Europcar suggests that a high percentage of drivers have decided to make changes to their driving habits as a result of the economic global recession and an increase in vehicle costs. Of those who decided to take part in the Europcar poll eight out of ten drivers [...]

The Sixt rental group UK has followed on the recent launch of its new iSixt iPhone reservation application by announcing that it will now offer UK customers the ability to make mobile rental reservations through Blackberry phones.
The new application is compatible with Blackberry’s Bold, Pearl, Storm and Curve models and the Sixt offering has been tailored specifically to Blackberry’s operating capabilities. Potential customers need only take up the free download offer to have instant access to a range of innovative services, including the capacity to reserve vehicles from all of Sixt’s available vehicle categories and also utilise the GPS-based search [...]

Free car washes for up to a year are now on offer for any new customers that sign up with Marks & Spencer (M&S) car insurance. Applicants will need to join the program via moneysupermarket.com and the package offers free motor cleaning services every month for the whole of 2010, which represents and estimates savings of £84.
The M&S car wash incentive is available to join up until the 23rd of December, and those new customers who sign up before that date will receive a voucher booklet with 12 redeemable coupons, valid for each moth of 2010 across any ARC location [...]

Charging a customer £820 without telling him has led to a UK car hire company being sued.
Value Rent-a-Car stung 78-year-old customer Christopher Pole-Carew with the hefty charge after his hire car broke down with clutch problems.
Pole-Carew had been driving the car for just five hours and was completely unaware of the actions of the rental car operator until he received his latest credit card statement. Pole-Carew, a former UK newspaper chief, is now taking Value Rent-a-Car to the petty claims court.
With a failing clutch, Pole-Carew’s rental vehicle initially broke down Saints Bay on the south coast of Guernsey. Pole-Carew was [...]

For the sixth consecutive year Enterprise Rent A Car has topped the J.D. Power and Associates Rental Car Satisfaction Study. Every year J.D. Power assesses customer satisfaction across North America’s car hire companies and publishes the results. For 2009 it found that Enterprise was the most highly regarded by customers with National Car Rental coming [...]

According to leading plane manufacturer Boeing the forecast for the next 20 years will see a huge demand from Southeast Asia and the Pacific for new airlines at an estimated cost of US $330 billion.
Boeing’s market data analysis and forecasting was issued this week by Marketing Vice President Randy Tinseth with the focus being squarely on the emerging Southeast Asian commercial market. The group has said that by the year 2028 they will need to supply some 29,000 new aircraft at a total value of over US $3 trillion.
Tinseth said that almost one-third of the group’s 20-year forecast had already [...]

It now appears that bmi will be axing five routes and cutting 600 more jobs as a result of unprecedented market conditions. This is a problem that seems to be affecting airlines all over the world, not just bmi. In fact, British Airways and Japan Airlines, among others, have all been suffering from weak market conditions.
bmi, which is the UK’s second largest carrier, will be dropping its flights to Tel Aviv, Kiev, Aleppo, Amsterdam, and Brussels as of January 9th. The airline noted that it will concentrate instead on routes serving oil, energy, and emerging markets.
On top of these route [...]

New reports have come in that Network Rail has started work to build a temporary railway station on the north side of the River Derwent at Workington. This temporary station is aimed to help ease the access problems that people of the town are experiencing following the big floods.
Over the past 24 hours or so the company has identified a site for a new temporary station that could help alleviate some of the problems that have been experienced by residents in this area, as well as surrounding areas. The new station will be built on waste land just over a [...]

It seems like, despite the recession, easyJet, has not given up on its plans to expand into Europe. In fact, the carrier has just recently announced 10 new routes for next year. These routes include three from the UK to Cagliari, Malta, and Helsinki.
The 10 new routes will take the total number of routes that are offered by easyJet up to 449. These routes cover 112 airports in 28 different countries. The news also comes just hot on the heels of bmi’s announcement that it would be axing five of its routes early next year.
EasyJet had just recently warned people [...]