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The second and third largest car hire firms in the US have raised the stakes in their fight to secure control over the fourth largest brand, Dollar Thrifty. Third largest rental firm, Hertz, has already put in a bid of $1.2 billion, and the nation’s second largest, Avis, is gearing up to put in a [...]

Dorna Sports, the company that holds the rights to the MotoGP, has signed a new agreement with leading car hire operator Hertz.
The new deal will see Hertz sign a one-year contract for the provision of equipment and car rental services for the leading motorcycle racing championship. The MotoGP is one of sport’s premier competitions, with 14 different countries visited across 18 different race tracks on four continents, while the pan-global television coverage ensures huge revenue streams for the event.
Established in 1949 by the FIM (Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme), the MotoGP is now in its 62nd successful year. It is the [...]

Iraqi Airways has been forced to cancel all flights as its country’s government announced that the state-owned flag carrier is bankrupt and will have to close down. According to Iraq’s transportation ministry, the situation has been brought about because of a war reparations dispute with neighbouring Kuwait.
Kuwait Airways claims that it is owed $1.2 billion by Iraqi Airways in reparation for aircraft and parts seized by Iraq during its 1990 invasion. Iraq’s transportation ministry said that the demise of its flag carrier was due to harassment from Kuwait. In April, lawyers acting on behalf of the authorities in Kuwait attempted to seize [...]

Parking fine campaigner Neil Herron has lost his High Court battle in opposition to what he said were unlawful penalty charges.
Herron, 47, parked within an area of single yellow lines and received 39 penalty charge notices that he requested to be ruled unenforceable. He disputed that the Sunderland city centre controlled parking area was unlawful due to its large size and the confusion it caused to drivers.
Herron is now faced with expenses of up to £20,000 after London’s High Court ruled against the test case challenge. He said the court’s verdict would permit local authorities to continue making money from [...]

Yesterday in Shreveport, the last Hummer H3 rolled off the Louisiana production line as part of an exclusive order for Avis Car Rental Company.
General Motors is cutting down the brand after a drawn out and eventually failed attempt to sell off the classic maker of sport-utility motor vehicles to a Chinese company. A month ago, General Motors hosted a sale of remaining Hummer vehicles and offered discounts of up to $6,000 for certain models.
The company’s campaign ‘Last Chance to Buy a HUMMER’ featured deals including $4,000 to $6,000 deducted off numerous H2 and H3 models, along with 72 months of [...]

Air accident investigators have announced that they are calling off the latest search for an Air France jet which went down in the Atlantic, killing all 228 crew and passengers. Following three-weeks of searching, French officials have ordered a specially equipped Norwegian exploration vessel to return to the Brazilian port of Recife.
The decision has angered a group which represents the families of those who died in the crash. President of Entraide et Solidarité AF447, Jean-Baptist Audousset, said that it was imperative that the wreckage of the jet, as well as its black-box flight recorders, be found. He added that this [...]

A campaigner has lost his battle at the High Court to have 39 penalty charges, received for parking his car on single yellow lines in a controlled parking zone, overturned. 47-year-old Neil Herron claims that the parking zone in Sunderland in which he received the notices, was too large and too confusing for the charges [...]

As British Airways cabin crew enter a third day of industrial action, the airline says that it is considering returning to the courts to put an end to the disruption. Last week, BA had an injunction granted to block the strike overturned by the Court of Appeals. The strike by members of the union Unite began on Monday.
Weekend talks aimed at preventing the latest walkouts ended abruptly, when protestors invaded the meeting at Acas. Although no further negotiations have been planned, Unite claims that the only way to prevent further action is to come to an agreement over pay, working conditions and [...]

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP opened the first public electric car charging station in Australia yesterday.
The on-street charging spot is located in Derby Place, Glebe. It is managed by ChargePoint and installed by Visionstream. The station uses 100 per cent Origin GreenPower and can recharge converted plug-in hybrids such as a Toyota Prius in three hours.
Ms Moore said that Sydney has joined other cities around the world that have installed electric vehicle charging stations, such as Amsterdam, Houston, San Francisco, London and Vancouver. Over 700,000 vehicles travel throughout the Local Government Area in Sydney every day, contributing significantly to [...]

Carrentals.co.uk has released guidelines with advice for football fans making the journey to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The leading car rental comparison site asked fans to carefully plan and prepare before leaving home in order to ensure the best time possible at the World Cup finals. Travellers from all across the globe will meet in South Africa next month to watch their teams compete.
The Carrentals.co.uk guidelines are intended for World Cup fans who will watch each game live. Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, said that fans making their way to South Africa in June can ensure a [...]

Having just posted better quarterly results than expected, Marriott International, owners of the biggest hotel brand in America, has announced that it will be doubling the number of hotels it has in China. The company proposes to do this over the next five years.
By the end of this year, Marriott said that it will increase the number of hotels it currently runs in China from 46 to 60. Within five years it hopes to have opened 90. If this happens, then China will become the hotelier’s second-largest market outside of the US. The plans were outlined by Marriott’s president, Arne [...]

As the strike by British Airways cabin crew enters its second day, thousands of passengers face travel disruption. Although services out of Gatwick and London City Airport were unaffected, BA said that it had managed to fly 50 per cent of its short-haul flights out of Heathrow and 60 per cent of its long-haul operations.
The flag-carrier is accusing trade union Unite of failing to return to the negotiating table to come to a solution. Talks between the airline and the union were brought to a dramatic end over the weekend, when protesters stormed the meeting at Acas. BA has since [...]