Rent a car in France

A passenger jet has landed safely at Manchester Airport after being forced to return to the airport shortly after take-off because of engine trouble. The Flybe plane, bound for Bournemouth, initially encountered some technical difficulties. The crew told passengers that there was nothing to worry about, but the situation worsened to the point where it was decided that one of the aircraft’s engines should be shut down.
One of the passengers said that the plane’s captain had spoken to those on board twice over the PA system. The passenger added that the aircraft had gone pretty silent after the announcements except [...]

Passenger baggage at Luton airport is now safer: after two of the airport’s cleaners were arrested for pilfering luggage. Abul Hussain and Anthony Currant were caught on hidden camera’s taking items from bags during a police sting operation in February. The pair were filmed opening bags before they got to the main carousel in the baggage retrievals hall.
According to Bedfordshire Police, Hussein, a 30-year-old from Claremont Road, Luton and Currant, a 65-year-old cleaner from Bolingbroke Road in the same town, each admitted to six counts of theft. Both have been handed a custodial sentence by Luton Crown Court.
Hidden cameras were [...]

Researchers have found that men are far more likely to take their attention off the road in hot weather than women – because they find themselves all too easily distracted by female summer attire. Skimpy skirts and tiny tops are being partly blamed for an increase in insurance claims being made by men during the [...]

The summer holiday driving season is upon us, and with it comes new warnings about the right amount of sleep.
Roadsafe, the leading UK road safety group, has advised drivers to ensure that they get plenty of sleep in the period before they set out on any lengthy journey to avoid serious accidents this summer.
According to Roadsafe, around 300 deaths on UK roads every year can be attributed to driver sleepiness, while the Department for Transport has estimated that as much as 20 per cent of all accidents on major UK roads are through lack of sleep by drivers. Both have [...]

Male drivers are more likely to be involved in car crashes during summer due to the fact that they are busy watching girls in skimpy outfits.
A new survey has discovered that as hemlines go up, so does the accident rate among male motorists, with 29 per cent revealing that pedestrians are too revealing for them to properly concentrate on the road, claiming skimpy summer outfits were proving too much of a distraction.
21 per cent of male drivers also said that the increase in heat also left them hot under the collar, saying that their road rage increased as the temperatures [...]

There has been no indication given as to what caused Pakistan’s worst-ever passenger plane disaster. A day of mourning is being observed across the country as teams of rescue workers struggle to sift through debris and recover the bodies of the victims. According to eyewitnesses, the Airbus A321, carrying a total of 152 passengers and crew, was flying at a very low level in monsoon rain and with poor visibility. Reports that the aircraft’s black-box flight recorder has been recovered are being denied by officials.
The aircraft crashed into the Margalla Hills close to the capital city of Islamabad. The location [...]

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced a fall in its quarterly net profits. Between April and June profits fell 21 per cent to $787 million compared to the same period last year when net profits reached $998 million. Although the drop can be attributed to less planes being delivered, the fall was not as sharp as some analysts feared.
During the second quarter, Boeing managed to deliver 114 commercial aircraft. In the same quarter last year the manufacturer was able to deliver 125. Deliveries for the whole of the first half of this year were down by 10 per cent on 2009.
Boeing [...]

The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, the philanthropic division of Enterprise Holdings, has announced a new pledge to the US Urban League.
The new three-year, $3 million grant coincides with the celebration of the League’s 100th anniversary and will support the organisation’s Whitney M. Young Jr. Center for Urban Leadership.
The National Urban League renowned across the US and the world as a civil rights organisation that is dedicated to empowering local economies to raise the general standard of living in historically poor urban communities. The Whitney M. Young Jr. Center is an initiative to help sustain the National Urban League’s movements via the [...]

With the modern commercial emphasis on environmental sustainability, the need to reduce one’s carbon footprint has been more important than ever.
With the fragile state of the planet squarely in mind, Avis Car Rental has been able to make significant reductions in its carbon impact at its KwaZulu-Natal regional depot through the use of recycled water and low-voltage lighting.
Wayne Duvenage, Avis South Africa CEO, said that the company had installed a 15,000 litre water storage reservoir at the vehicle preparation centre which captures all of the run-off rainwater from the group’s buildings. This water is then used in the final water [...]

The close relationship between the Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Foundation and the National Urban League, a movement, established in 1910, that tries to improve the situation of those who live in poorer inner city areas across the US, looks set to continue as the car hire giant donates $3 million to the League’s Whitney M. Young Jr. Centre [...]

The ongoing battle for control of Dollar Thrifty has taken another twist.
The dispute, which has seen Hertz, the second largest US car rental company, and Avis, the third largest, locked in an increasing bitter battle for the smaller outfit, has been ongoing since before last Christmas, when Hertz offered the initial USD$1.2 billion bid that sent shockwaves across the American car hire industry.
Now, the Avis Budget Group has announced that it has amended its credit facility in order to secure the necessary financing for a possible takeover of Dollar Thrifty. Recent poor performances on the stock market had meant that [...]

Leading US car rental organisation Hertz has announced the opening of a new Customer Care Centre on the Gulf Coast.
The Gulf Coast of the United States, also commonly referred to as the South Coast or Gulf South, consists of coastlines of states that lie along the Gulf of Mexico, including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The highly commercial region has its car hire and travel industry centred on Tampa, New Orleans and Houston.
The new Customer Care Centre will aim to serve predominantly retail customers, business travellers and government employees across the region with vehicle and equipment rental solutions. The [...]