12th
January
2010
New reports now clearly show that the administrators of Globespan and E-Clear are set to go to a High Court hearing soon in a bid to resolve the stalemate over £35 million in passenger funds. PricewaterhouseCoopers, an auditing firm, is asking a judge to put E-Clear into administration in a bid to release the funds following the collapse of the Scottish low cost carrier that left almost 4,500 people stranded when the company went bankrupt right before Christmas. It is well known now that E-Clear is being blamed for one of the major reasons why Globespan went down.
PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates potential [...]
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12th
January
2010
Lately there have been a growing number of problems with trains getting caught in tunnels. Although travelers would like to hear the end of these stories, unfortunately, that is not going to happen anytime soon apparently. This is because yet another Eurostar train has been left stranded in the tunnel on its way from Brussels to London.
Eurostar confirmed this morning that the train, which left Brussels at 8:05am was due to arrive at London St Pancraas around 8:56am. However, the train had been delayed while crossing the channel. It is not yet known why the train stopped in the tunnel, [...]
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12th
January
2010
British Airways cabin crew are now going to be voting on a new strike ballot as of January 22nd. This is a move that is going to attempt to strengthen the trade union’s position during the talks with the airline. The union thinks that the fear of a strike may make British Airways more likely to cave in to demands.
The voting is expected to take around a month to completely finish. That means that the strike action could start as of March 1st if the estimated 12,700 crew members that are affiliated with this union deem it necessary.
The Unite union [...]
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12th
January
2010
Research conducted by the Abrams Consulting Group has revealed that in 2009 the average price of a car rental at an airport had increased by a staggering fifty-one percent on a year earlier. The figures are particularly significant when compared to the rest of the travel industry where average prices tumbled in a bid to [...]
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