Travel news in brief

By Charles Starmer-Smith 800AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Passenger numbers at BAA"s airports grew by 2.4�per cent last month Photo CORBIS

High transport expansion

Travel headlines homepage Holiday car let prices burst BA passengers face 7 days of strikes Travel companies interest for tourism renovate Network Rail workers opinion in foster of set upon Tourist anathema on Indian islands

Thomson and First Choice are to sire the direction for online bookings by adding up to thirty new transport group shops in the subsequent dual years. This has been stirred by low rents in the high street. "We have been listening to the business and most of them have pronounced they wish face to face hit when engagement holidays," pronounced a orator for Tui, that owns Thomson and First Choice.

Passenger rise

Passenger numbers at BAA"s airports grew by 2.4 per cent last month, compared to the same duration last year, with Heathrow and Gatwick stating a 5.3 per cent and 3.2 per cent climb in passengers respectively. A orator for BAA pronounced the total were encouraging, deliberation that most airports had been influenced by complicated sleet last month.

Varsity Blues

After usually one week of service, Varsity Express has ceased flying, due to monetary problems. The airline was charity a every day use in between Oxford with Edinburgh but a summary on the airline"s website states that services are dangling until serve notice. Passengers with destiny bookings are now being contacted.

Scandinavian Holidays

Last week it was incorrectly reported that Scandinavian Holidays was one of the trade names of ScanTours, that went in to administration department this month. This was improper and Scandinavian Holidays continues to work as normal, charity a far-reaching preference of tailormade trips to the region.

BA passengers face 7 days of strikes

The transport plans of tens of thousands of British Airways passengers have been thrown in to irregularity after the kinship representing 13,500 cabin organisation called 7 days of strikes.

Travel companies interest for tourism overhaul

The organisation representing Britains heading transport companies is anticipating to spin Government "apathy" towards tourism in to an choosing issue.

Network Rail workers opinion in foster of strike

Railway upkeep workers have voted in foster of what could be Britain"s initial inhabitant rail set upon in sixteen years.

Tourist anathema on Indian islands

Tourists are to be criminialized from large areas of resorts on the Indian islands since of fears they will move disease that could clean out the 350 superfluous members of a internal tribe.