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The British representative of Taiwan has said that relations between the country and the UK are improving as a result of hard work and continuous exchanges.
David Campbell, the director of the British Trade and Cultural Office (BTCO) and the country’s official representative to Taiwan, said that there has been a significant increase of trade flow and investments, resulting in improved bilateral ties between the two countries.
In the tourism market, the UK’s lifting of visa requirements for Taiwan residents last March 2009 resulted in higher tourist arrivals of Taiwanese holidaymakers. According to the figures from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau, the number [...]

Europe’s third biggest airline, British Airways (BA), said that it will operate the majority of its flights from Heathrow Airport after a second walkout of cabin crew ended at midnight.
BA cancelled a hundred of its flights when its staff made a three-day strike this week and last. The walkout, which began on 20 March, was eventually followed by four more days of work stoppage. The UK national carrier is now facing a threat of more industrial action next month if the company fails to forge a decision about the fate of 12,000 workers.
According to Andrew Light, a London-based analyst of Citigroup, BA has [...]

Australian’s have voted against the group that once claimed it was the world’s favourite airline, with a new survey naming the embattled carrier as their least-favourite airline on which to travel to the United Kingdom.
British Airways finished in last place of the customer satisfaction survey conducted by travel consultancy specialists Choice. Australia’s national carrier fared little better, receiving poor scores for its British service.
British Airways was heavily criticised by Australian pollsters for employing rude and confrontational staff – something no doubt not helped by the ongoing cabin crew dispute from the troubled airline. The group was also seen as a having poor [...]

Loved ones of passengers killed in the doomed Air France Flight 447 have filed 23 wrongful death lawsuits in Miami against the aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
Families claim that the A330 jet went down due to several flaws in its design and components that were assembled in the US. Podhurst Orseck, a Florida-based law company, has helped [...]

With a huge snowfall expected in both North America and Europe this season, last minute breaks are set to feature highly in the travel plans of UK holidaymakers.
With more and more Britons deciding to get away to the continent after the 2009 ’staycationing’ trend, the budget car rental comparison website Carrentals.co.uk has announced a range of superb deals from just £8 per day for popular ski destinations like Girona Airport.
Budget-beating deals are also being offered by the market-leading price comparator, with Bergamo and Turin Airport deals starting from £17 per day, while Salzburg car hire can be found from just [...]

The biggest travel-related financial services firm, Thomas Cook, has recently signed a contract with Saraswat Co-operative Bank to offer its international money transfer service throughout all of the bank’s branches.
Saraswat Bank, India’s leading co-operative savings bank, has a total asset of more than Rs22,000 crore. The bank has an interconnected network of over 200 branches – spreading across Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi. With the new tie up, all of Saraswat Bank’s clients will be able to use the fund transfer service MoneyGram offered by Thomas Cook.
Madhavan Menon, Managing Director of Thomas Cook-India, said that the partnership [...]

Relatives of passengers killed in the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 have recently filed nearly two dozen wrongful death lawsuits in Florida against the aircraft maker Airbus.
The grievances claim that the A330 crashed because of several flaws in the plane and its components that were manufactured in the US. Podhurst Orseck, a Miami-based law firm, has filed a total of 23 wrongful death complaints on behalf of the passengers’ relatives and is expecting to add 10 more claims in the following few weeks.
However, Airbus – a European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company division – called the claims unjustifiable. Clay McConnell, [...]

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority has announced that environmental work will be required on the site of the new car rental facility which is currently being constructed at Lindbergh Field.
The new site is designed to make the rental process and management of rental companies more efficient, both for consumers and the environment at the Pacific Highway location. The new facility will make the experience more practical by combining all aspects of renting under one convenient distribution centre. This will not only serve customers more effectively, but will also relieve the often congested Harbor Drive road area where rental [...]

BCD Travel, the world’s third-largest travel management organisation, has released its global update for the first quarter through its consulting unit Advito. The revised update includes projections that hotel room rates will fall and that car rental charges will rise, with North American airfares remaining stable.
The hotel rate revision was applied to room rates at leading travel markets including China, Spain, France, India, Germany, Brazil, the UK and the US. Advito said that the new outlook was based on the slow pace of global economic recovery along with emerging markets showing increased capacity. The figures reflected the stabilisation of American Depository [...]

Good news for travellers who are looking for a reasonably priced car hire and who are journeying out of Florida! Several car hire firms are now offering great rental deals. Car hire firms like Hertz, Alamo and Enterprise currently have too many cars ready for hire in Florida.
According to reports, several companies are now giving [...]

Rival airlines of the strike-hit UK flag carrier British Airways (BA) have been busy taking advantage of the situation by advertising their services as safe and strike-free.
Some of the recent advertisements publicised are from Bmi, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic (VA) - BA’s most bitter rival. VA recently posted on its website the slogan ‘Avoid the strikes this spring and fly Virgin Atlantic’. Also keeping up with the trend, Bmi advertised on a newspaper the quote ‘Flight cancelled? Need a lift?’. Meanwhile, Emirates said in one of its marketing shows, ‘You keep us flying’.
Nigel Turner from Carlson Wagonlit, a travel management firm, [...]

The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) has signed another major agreement with British tour operator TUI Travel. The new agreement aims to increase the arrivals of Brit tourists to Malta for the next three years.
The new deal also means that MTA has secured long-term travel agreements with specialist tour operator Saga Holidays and two of the UK’s major global travel agencies, TUI Travel and Thomas Cook.
Under the agreement, Malta will be extensively promoted in all of TUI’s communications channels, such as TV commercials, magazines and newspapers. In addition, advertisements about Malta will also be seen in over 500 popular shops across [...]