30th November 2009

Ryanair Announces a New Base for Norway

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 [...]

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30th November 2009

EasyJet Feels a Mandatory Emissions Standard Should be Made

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 [...]

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30th November 2009

Farringdon Set to Become One of the Largest Hubs in London

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 [...]

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30th November 2009

Motorists turn to car hire to keep down costs

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 [...]

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30th November 2009

Sixt car hire unveils new Blackberry application

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 [...]

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30th November 2009

M&S insurance offers free carwashes

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 [...]

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