You may live in the sahara desert for all I know, lucky you. But the Travel News wants to report that it is b****y cold here in Blighty, UK.
How long will this continue. April already, Christmas will be coming soon. Try out some travel gifts here. If summer is cancelled due to damp and unseasonably [...]

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Airport authority BAA, which controls all the major London airports, Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick, is struggling to prove it should keep the franchise for running the hub airports operations.
Air travellers for years have dubbed Heathrow airport, particularly Terminal 1, as the airport from hell. Dirty and worn interiors, terrible customer service and facilities have plagued [...]

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Under the guise of green policies, the UK conservative party, egged on by the climate change lobby are outlining plans to increase taxes on UK domestic air travel.
These plans, fiercely criticised by UK airlines such as British Airways, will involve UK travellers in paying increased air fares. Taxes on air travel have been increasing steadily [...]

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UK and European holiday travellers returning from outside the EU will be allowed double the duty free gifts and souvenirs as well as standard alcohol and cigarette allowances from later this year.
This will increase the limit on duty and tax-free items from £145 to £290, and the changes are planned to take place before the [...]

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When is a runway grooved or not grooved? Apparently pilots have been complaining that their planes are skidding when landing at Bristol Airport. Have any passengers felt this? The runway is being closed to allow extra grooving so aircraft tyres have extra grip in the wet.
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The Government’s plans for investing in Britain’s railways are in disarray after the company operating the most profitable route surrendered the contract yesterday.

GNER had signed the contract only 18 months ago, under which it had agreed to pay the Government £1.3 billion over ten years to run trains between London and Edinburgh…more
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The figures are certainly impressive, Terminal 5 is a massive infrastructure project involving dozens of contractors on a 260ha site. New aircraft stands have been delivered (four capable of handling the new A380 ‘Super’ jumbo) along with 120,000m² of taxiway.
The main terminal 5 building will be nearly 400 metres long with 175 lifts and more than [...]

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