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The UK Government has recently released the First Draft of its Sustainable Framework for UK Aviation. Commenting on the report, Darren Caplan, chief executive of the Airport Operators Association said, ‘We welcome the publication of the First Draft of the Sustainable Framework for UK Aviation, and look forward to all airports being allowed to grow sustainably, within a decent planning and regulatory framework, whilst delivering on cleaner, quieter, smarter aviation, to ensure the UK economy has the connectivity in needs in order to emerge from recession.’ London Gatwick Airport, has supported the UK Government’s decision to open discussions on how…

Thomas Cook Group, Plc, a UK-based travel company, is offering new ticket packages for the London 2012 Olympic Games, with stays at its best value hotels. The London City breaks, celebrating the 2012 Olympics Games, were launched earlier in June 2012, and the company has added more options to the selection, in order to capture the last minute buyers that are intent on obtaining tickets for the games as part of an accommodation package. The Games Breaks prices start at £79 for budget conscious travellers, and are currently also available without tickets included, for those travellers that already have tickets…

British Airways, the UK-based airline company, is offering a complementary two-night stay, on its London flights, as a part of its ‘London for Free’ sale during this summer. The airline is offering two nights free accommodation in certain London hotels throughout the summer season. The hotels participating in this offer include the DoubleTree London Westminster, and the Rembrandt, as well as the Tavistock, the Royal National, the President and the Astons Apartments in London. The sale will remain available until July 25, 2012, on booking a roundtrip airfare between any US destination, and London, UK, for travel to be completed…

Monarch Airlines, a UK-based airline company, has announced that it is opening a new airbase at Leeds Bradford Airport, in the UK, and will be commencing its operations out of the airport from the summer of 2013. The airline will be offering 12 new routes, flying twice weekly, from Leeds Bradford, and including the destinations of Antalya (Turkey), Barcelona (Spain), Bodrum (Turkey), Dalaman (Turkey), Faro (Portugal), Heraklion (Greece), Lanzarote (Spain), Larnaca (Cyprus), Majorca (Spain), Munich (Germany), Rome (Italy), and Tenerife (Spain). The airline will be providing its services from Leeds Bradford airport with two A320 aircraft, and flights will commence…

While British holidaymakers may book their holidays in Spain and Turkey, in the belief that those destinations offer the best value for money, a recent survey suggests that this might not be the case in reality, and that by comparison, vacations in Portugal and Bulgaria are likely to be less expensive. A new Post Office Travel Money report suggests that couples can save up to £457 on a holiday, by simply changing their booking to a different country, as long as they do their homework properly. Vacations are cheaper for a couple in Portugal, Bulgaria and Majorca, when including accommodation,…

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), a UK-based association for the travel agency industry, has launched new guidelines to improve travel for people with reduced mobility. The guidelines, prepared in collaboration with the UK Civil Aviation Authority, will aim to provide an improved air travel experience for people with reduced mobility, and will offer information and advice to travel agents regarding how to make travelling a more comfortable experience for these people. European law (Regulation 1107/2006) allows all passengers, with reduced mobility to access travel assistance, free of charge, when they fly. Disabled travellers now have to advise airports…

NASA has released a new application that claims to allow users to travel in space, in real time, using 3D-imaging technology. The space agency has considered space enthusiasts by releasing the application for free, and enabling it to be used on the iPhone and iPad platform. It provides a real time 3-D representation of the agency’s robotic spacecraft. Called ‘Spacecraft 3D,’ the application employs animation techniques to demonstrate the manoeuvrability of NASA’s spacecraft. Some outside components of the spacecraft may also be manipulated using the application. NASA said that it was currently offering the 3D representation of two of its…

India-based travel portal and travel conglomerate, MakeMyTrip.com, has announced that it will be offering mobile applications to travellers that are also tech savvy. The firm said that it would be offering new travel planning and management applications that can be run on the customers’ smart phones. The applications, which are free of charge, can be run on Android and iPhone devices. Until now, the company’s application would only run only on the Blackberry format. The firm expects to reach a large percentage of its customers with the release of the new app versions. The firm said that the application allows…

Passengers at London Luton Airport will now have the option of either carrying a free cabin bag of a smaller size, or paying a fee to take a larger bag on to the aircraft, when they travel on Hungary-based airline, Wizzair. From August 1, 2012, passengers on Wizzair’s Luton Airport to Katowice (Poland) route will have to pay a €10 fee for a larger piece of cabin baggage, a step the airline has taken to control the problem of lack of storage space on smaller aircraft. The fee is applicable on all cabin baggage measuring more than a specified size…

Avis Budget UK, the UK-based subsidiary of car rental company, Avis Budget Group, is offering a mobile Internet service to customers that rent their Avis vehicles at Edinburgh Airport, in Scotland. For rental prices commencing from £8.50 per day, the company’s customers can stay connected to their businesses and social circles via the mobile hotspots. The new service may be booked through the rental company’s call centres, and the portable hotspots may connect to as many as five devices at once, including laptops, smart phones, tablets and game consoles. Kaye Ceille, the company managing director, said, ‘Internet access is becoming…