27th
January
2010
It now seems, according to the Unite union, that only 216 volunteers have offered to replace British Airways’ cabin crew in the event of industrial action. The trade union went on to claim that the program to retrain employees to replace the stewards during industrial action would replace less than 2 percent of the carrier’s cabin crew.
The union went on to say that these plans by the airline are nothing more than a “scab labor” drive. The strike ballot, which opened just earlier this week, is set to close as of February 22nd. Thus, the earliest possible strike could [...]
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27th
January
2010
It now seems that yet another holiday company is closing its doors to new bookings. The UK firm Aldi Travel, which is a subsidiary of the German supermarket group, said that it had carried out the move to enable it to review the deals that it is offering.
Aldi Travel did go on to say that customers that have already booked holidays through the company would not be affected by this new course of action. In fact, an Aldi Travel spokesperson said that the firm has proved popular with customers, as the UK Travel market had become increasing competitive. Thus, the [...]
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27th
January
2010
New reports show that the Ethiopian Airlines jet that just recently crashed off the coast of Lebanon ignored instructions from the air traffic controller to avoid a series of violent thunderstorms. Elias Murr, the Lebanese Defense Minister, said that a traffic control recording shows that the tower told the pilot to turn to avoid the storm. However, the plane went in the opposite direction. It is not yet known what happened or whether it was beyond the pilot’s control or not.
All of the 90 passengers, as well as all of the crew that were on board the flight, died when [...]
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27th
January
2010
As members of the Lebanese army collect up what remains of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 which according to witnesses exploded in a fireball after ditching into the sea just moments after take off, the search is on for the planes flight recorder. At the moment experts can do little but speculate as to why [...]
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27th
January
2010
The summer peak season saw a return towards normalcy for most car hire operators, though those in the Canary Islands would have particular reason to be pleased as data released for year on year figures for November and December from Auto Europe UK indicate that there was a rise of 24 percent across the islands.
The Canary Islands have traditionally fared well as a UK holidaymakers travel destination with historical figures showing strong performance in both first and last quarter’s annually. However, the massive recent growth has some believing that the corner of the economic downturn may finally be being turned [...]
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