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Singapore Airlines has announced a 69 per cent slump in profits for the year after a loss in the fourth-quarter compared to the same period a year ago. The Asian carrier is blaming the high cost of jet fuel and the fragile state of the global economy. …

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has launched its new car rental facility. The new $400 million (£247 million) building is set on a 23-acre plot to the east of the airport, a major US gateway for transpacific flights. It was opened during a ribbo…

Londoners who decide to travel throughout the capital by bike or on foot are to be rewarded under a new scheme called re:route. A mobile application can be downloaded which allows those who walk or hop on a bicycle to collect reward points which are re…

The European Commission has said that body scanners used at Manchester airport do not cause heath risks for passengers. The news comes via a report released by European lawmakers this week, whose findings likely mean that the devices will continue to b…

A new report suggests that budget airlines may be charging families more to travel than their mainstream rivals. The travel comparison website responsible for the study found that once the extra costs of administrative services, priority booking, seat …

Europe’s largest travel operator Tui has said that it is feeling positive about the number of bookings it is receiving for summer holidays this year. At the end of April, the company reported an increase in bookings compared to last year in all marke…

Officials from InterContinental Hotels Group said this week that strong performance should continue into the summer via help from the 2012 London Olympics. The news came on Wednesday via the company’s chief executive Richard Solomons, who said in a s…

A strike of sorts among Air India pilots has caused the cancellation of some of the carrier’s international flights today. Officials from the Delhi-based airline said in a statement issued this morning that the disruptions would affect passengers tra…

Singapore’s new budget carrier is to offer a route between its base and Bangkok’s Suvarnabumhi International Airport. The Singapore Airlines offshoot said in a press release issued today that it would begin serving the new short-haul route beginnin…

Vijay Mallya, the owner of Indian carrier Kingfisher Airways, has told workers that he will start to clear backdated salaries for January by the middle of this week and hopes to have salaries owed for February cleared by the end of May. In a letter, he…

News broke yesterday that the CIA has thwarted a recent plot to blow up a commercial airliner. US authorities said that the plot was to be carried out by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda operative in a fashion similar to 2009’s foiled underwear bomb plot. Howe…

The world’s two largest makers of commercial aircraft have suffered major order cancellations since the beginning of the year. Although it has not named the airlines responsible, US planemaker Boeing said that 25 orders for its state-of-the-art 787 D…