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Avis has announced that its 2010 car hire fleet is all set to provide leisure and business car hire customers with an eco-friendly ride.
The car rental firm’s line-up for 2010 allows renters to choose between a large variety of SmartWay-certified vehicles, such as Nissan Versa and Hyundai Sonata. The SmartWay certification program was set up by the US Environmental Protection Agency and ranks vehicles based on greenhouse gas emission and air pollution standards.
 
Sixty-two per cent of Avis’s fleet is currently made up of SmartWay certified vehicles. Almost 100 per cent of vehicles that are compact, subcompact and intermediate have achieved EPA’s [...]

Premier car rental company Avis has received two esteemed awards for outstanding business service in the Middle East.
The company, which has car hire outlets throughout the region, has gained international recognition for its two big wins. At the Business Traveller Awards, Avis was named ‘Best Car Rental Company for the Middle East’, while the World Travel Awards 2010 saw Avis scoop ‘Middle East’s Leading Business Car Rental’ for the second year in a row.
Avis came out on top above its opponents as it was voted as having exceptional business services. Commenting on the awards, E Sriram, Manager of Avis Oman,  [...]

A five-day strike by British Airways cabin crew has started after talks between the airline and union Unite at the weekend, once again, failed to reach a resolution. The industrial action will cause disruption to many of the airline’s passengers. Around 40 per cent of BA’s long-haul services out of Heathrow will be affected.
The strike is going ahead after BA had initially managed to avert industrial action by getting an injunction from the High Court. However, the ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeals and the strike, which was due to start on May 18, was pushed back to [...]

Investigators trying to work out what caused an Air India Express jet to crash as it came in to land at Mangalore airport say that they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder. The device could hold vital clues as to why the aircraft crashed in what aviation officials have described as good landing conditions. Investigators say that they are still sifting through the wreckage to find the flight data recorder.
According to reports, the Boeing 747, carrying 166 people, overshot the runway, which is situated on the top of a hill, and burst into flames. Officials say that as well as [...]

Leading car hire firm, Avis, is offering its customers greener solutions when hiring a vehicle. The company has announced that 62 per cent of the vehicles in its fleet are SmartWay certified. SmartWay certification is given to those cars which pass an extremely rigorous set of tests, set by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), [...]