18th December 2009

Flyglobespan Collapses and Leaves Thousands Stranded

It seems that yet another airline has finally met its end due to the tough economical times. This time over 4,000 British holidaymakers have been left stranded abroad following the collapse of Scotland’s largest holiday charter and budget airline, Flyglobespan.
Another 117,000 people who have booked Christmas breaks with this airline will now have to miss out on their holiday travels since most other airlines are all booked up for this season already. The 800 plus staff that worked for the airline will also be feeling very blue this Christmas since they are now unemployed.
Out of the 117,000 people who booked [...]

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18th December 2009

British Airways Gets High Court to Rule Against Cabin Crew Strike

Apparently Mrs Justice Cox agrees with British Airways that the Unite union’s ballot was not done correctly. British Airways lawyers went on to say that the Unite union breached industrial relations laws by including members of staff that no longer worked for the airline.
British Airways went on to say in a statement that they are delighted for their customers that the threat of a Christmas strike has been lifted by the court. It is a decision that will be welcomed by hundreds of thousands of families in the UK and around the whole world. They said that there was never [...]

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18th December 2009

Carrentals.co.uk Now at the Top of the Natural Search Rankings for Car Hire

Right now no car hire comparison site is hotter than Carrentals.co.uk, and this has been proven now that the company topped the natural search rankings for car hire search terms in September. The company was able to do this be being ranked number one for 147 of the 3,800 keywords analyzed by the leading independent search engine marketing agency, Greenlight.
The report went on to show that this car hire comparison website did not just top the domestic charts but worldwide search terms for September as well. The site was also able to report positive results for this difficult summer, showing [...]

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18th December 2009

Carrentals.co.uk is number one in the search rankings

Carrentals.co.uk has cemented its position as the internet’s leading car hire comparison site by coming top of the search rankings for the month of September. Internet analysts Greenlight have just published their Car Hire Sector Report for the third quarter and it shows that Carrentals.co.uk managed to take fifty-four percent of the 1.5 million car [...]

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18th December 2009

Carrentals UK wins top car hire website again

The multi-award winning carrentals.co.uk has once again topped the search rankings for car hire related internet queries.
Using statistics based on Google’s natural search engine carrentals.co.uk achieved a massive 54% market share for terms related to hire car in September. The month saw 1.5 million searches performed under car hire with carrentals.co.uk beating out the competition to place first among 147 leading search terms, out of a total of some 3,800 analysed keywords. The latest report into the hire car sector is by Greenlight, the leading marketing agency for independent search engine studies.
The Greenlight report further found that domestic and worldwide [...]

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18th December 2009

UK High Court blocks BA strike

Hundreds of thousands of British Airways passengers today received the welcome news that their Christmas travel plans will not be thrown into disarray after the High Court blocked a planned 12-day strike. In deeming the cabin crew strike unlawful the court has delivered a humbling blow to the Unite union.
The result of the ban will mean that some 900,000 passengers who have made reservations for travel over the planned strike period from December 22nd  to January 2nd will be saved from last minute panic and inconvenience. Unite, despite the ruling, has stated that it will continue to seek some form [...]

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