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British low-cost regional airline, Flybe, is planning to increase capacity on key routes at Birmingham airport and is set to announce new routes at the airport soon, Routes News has reported. The airline will increase flights from Birmingham to Hanover, Milan-Malpensa and Stuttgart to twice daily from March 30. It will also operate an extra Saturday service to Stuttgart. With the changes, Flybe will operate up to 680 flights a week this summer from Birmingham, on 24 routes. Flybe also said that it would deploy an 88-seat Embraer 175 jet aircraft on ‘the majority’ of its Hanover and Stuttgart services.…

The Milestone has been named the UK’s Best Hotel in the TripAdvisor 12th Annual Travellers’ Choice Awards. The Milestone was also named the fourth best hotel in Europe and fifteenth in the world. The Red Carnation Hotel Collection, the group that owns Milestone, had a major representation, as 11 of its properties were recognised in the rankings across all of the award categories. Of Red Carnation’s London properties, the five-star Hotel 41 was named 13th Best Small Hotel in the UK, 12th Best Luxury Hotel in the UK and 14th Best Hotel for Romance in the UK. The five star…

Heathrow’s Terminal 2, The Queen’s Terminal, designed by Spanish architect, Luis Vidal + Architects (LVA), will open on June 4, 2014, when a United Airlines flight from Chicago is scheduled to land at the new building early in the morning, the airport said. The £2.5 billion project includes the main Terminal 2 building, a monumental new sculpture by internationally-renowned artist, Richard Wilson RA, a 1,340-space car park and an energy centre and cooling station. The terminal is one of the UK’s largest privately funded construction projects and has provided jobs for nearly 35,000 people. Terminal 2 will house 22 Star…

Hotels must deliver a ‘3D’ – global, local and personalised – experience to win guest loyalty in the future, according to a report by InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) The new report – ‘Creating Moments of Trust – the key to building successful brand relationships in the Kinship Economy’, says that personalised brand experiences reflecting local culture are particularly important for international travellers from emerging markets. The report says that travellers believe global hotel brands offer better services than local hotel brands in several aspects, including safety consistency and innovation. They now expect global brands to be relevant in terms of…

Heathrow Airport is inviting young people from the local community to sign-up for its annual jobs and careers fair in February. The airport is expecting more than 5,000 16 to 24 year olds to attend the event, which will be held on February 11. Around 50 companies that operate at Heathrow will be representing their sectors, and intend to inspire local young people into embarking on a career at the airport. Parents and teachers can also receive advice regarding companies’ requirements from candidates. Paula Stannett, director of Human Resources at Heathrow said, ‘The Heathrow jobs and careers fair is about…

Norwich International Airport has invited its customers and the general public to attend its annual Travel Show on Saturday January 25, from 10am to 3pm in the airport terminal building. The Show provides an opportunity for visitors to chat with experts in the holiday and travel market, offering holiday inspiration and ideas for travellers and holidaymakers. There will be over 20 tour operator, airline and local business representatives offering first hand destination and product advice on their departures from Norwich International throughout 2014. The airport says that the day has been a huge success in the past, with people keen…

The RunwaysUK conference in London has provided a forum for aviation industry leaders to discuss the options for the expansion of London Heathrow airport and increased capacity in the south east of the UK. The Airports Commission, led by Sir Howard Davies, has short-listed three options for runway expansion, which include additional runways being built at Heathrow and Gatwick. Sir Howard delivered the conference’s keynote speech, and said that the interim report published in December has been ‘fairly well received’. Virgin Atlantic chief executive, Craig Kreeger, has extended his support to the proposal for expansion, saying that is what ‘customers…

One in four Britons will forego an overseas holiday this summer due to financial concerns, a survey has revealed. The survey, commissioned by Travel Channel UK and Vision Critical, has revealed that 21 percent of respondents cannot afford to go abroad on holiday in 2014, saying that they would be staying in Britain this summer due to financial concerns, the Telegraph has reported. Of the 2,000 individuals questioned for the poll, only 26 percent said they could comfortably afford an overseas holiday. Female travellers were more reluctant to spend on holidays, with only 22 percent saying that they can pay…

Center Parks UK, which provides accommodation and leisure facilities in holiday village locations in the UK, has had one of its television adverts for cheap holidays banned for being misleading. The Daily Mail has reported that the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency had begun an investigation after receiving a complaint from a viewer that the television advert for a £249 break was only available mid-week and during school term time. The advert appeared to target families, as it portrayed children and adults taking part in various leisure activities together. It also included the line, ‘What would you like your children to…

The much-reported lengthy queues at London’s Heathrow immigration desks have caused the government to announce an increase in staff numbers to be made available at the airport. It fell to immigration minister, Damian Green, to inform the UK parliament that the government’s original plan, which was to recruit 70 Border Force staff at the airport to be in place after the Olympic Games end in August, had been brought forward. In making the announcement to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, Green said, ‘The queue levels we’ve seen at some times of the day, particularly at Heathrow and…