Passengers returning home for festive season face disruption as Omicron leaves airlines short-staffedPassengers travelling home for Christmas have been hit with disruption worldwide after airline companies cancelled more than 3,000 flights on Friday, a…
UK flights to the US resume as travel ban lifts; crypto rally lifts ether to new record – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsIntroduction: US reopens its borders to UK visitors today20-month ban on arrivals is lifting, for fully-vaccinated passengersBA and Virgin Atlantic put aside rivalry for return of leisure flight…
Airlines hope for fistfuls of dollars as transatlantic flying returns
The reopening of US routes saw improved forecasts and rising shares, but there may still be turbulence to comeThe golden goose is airborne again. The reopening of the US border to leisure travellers from the UK and most of Europe – with the accompanyin…
Ryanair to pull London Stock Exchange listing because of Brexit
Budget airline returns to quarterly profit but plans to cut winter ticket pricesRyanair will pull its share listing from the London Stock Exchange in the next six months because of Brexit, as the airline made a quarterly profit for the first time since…
Ban UK domestic flights and subsidise rail travel, urges transport charity
Exclusive: Campaign for Better Transport calls on government to end ‘climate disaster’ of internal flightsDomestic flights should be banned and long-distance train fares subsidised, transport campaigners have urged, highlighting the relative environmen…
Like it or not, with Nord Stream 2, Putin has a foot on the gas Europe badly needs
With Gazprom’s flagship pipeline poised to deliver energy under the Baltic, leaders have little choice but to do businessAfter years of debate in Germany and beyond, the Russian state-backed energy giant Gazprom confirmed last month that it had finish…
Aeroflot: a history of the Soviet airline – in pictures
The story of one of the world’s oldest carriers is told through photographs, posters and ephemera in Bruno Vandermueren’s book Aeroflot – Fly Soviet, published by FUEL Continue reading…
Grant Shapps wants to scrap costly PCR tests for travellers by half-term
Shift in policy in England would mean such Covid tests being replaced by cheaper lateral flow onesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said he wanted to scrap costly PCR tests for internatio…
Regulator drops BA and Ryanair lockdown flights refund case
Competition and Markets Authority ends four-month investigation saying it cannot justify expenseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe competition regulator has dropped its investigation into whether British Airways and Ryanair…
Heathrow passengers delayed for hours after biometric passport gates fail
Gatwick and Edinburgh airports also affected with travellers held on planes while others faced queuesAirline passengers reported delays of up to four hours as airports across the UK were hit by a second e-gate technical fault within two weeks.Traveller…