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Evidence suggests this is not entirely true, though. The absolute persistence of long-haul LCCs to fly London - New York, for example, speaks to the contrary, as well as their flights to southern Florida from London. TUI is not really a LCC - they are a package holiday company that offers their...

I really doubt they will carry cargo. A few times a week, appears to be winter seasonal (at least for now). This is not particularly attractive to the carrier, and low-cost carriers tend to eschew cargo. That being said - Cape Town commands quite high fares. On a random pair of dates in...

I didn't necessarily mean the polar route precisely. I meant that connections in Scandinavia were quite competitive heading to Asia - you were heading that way anyway. This is no longer the case. Flights on many carriers (including all European carriers and some others) now can't/won't...

I didn't mean to say it wasn't - it was a comment on the overall strengths and weaknesses of the alliance. It's a good boost (though not able to offer the once-competitive route to Asia 'over the top'). Additionally, given KLM's association with the oil and gas sector, it's an obvious add for...

They also have captive very high value, strongly O&D hubs like London, and strong presence/captive in high value places (or formerly high value) including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney (as well as big hubs in the US) as well as high value connecting airlines like Qatar. Both OneWorld and SkyTeam have...

Where does the title blame Network Rail? Of either the thread or the article?

An interesting year for breathing new life into southern Italy airports. Salerno comes back online this year, with easyJet offering flights to the UK (Gatwick). Reggio Calabria gets new international and domestic services. While part of Reggio Calabria's expansion has been at the expense...

Nairobi JKIA has a full check point on the road in. Everybody has to get out the car and walk through a check point (unless you have an LP), while the driver pulls forward to the other side. However, if you drive yourself to the airport alone, you just get a cursory look round the car... Then at...

The new Istanbul airport is not only enormous with some lengthy walking times between gates. This is made longer by an absence of a 'train' or similar between piers. The WiFi system is ridiculous. You need to go to a stand, swipe your passport and get a chit with a number on it to log-in. This...

For Wizzair, over and above widespread complaints about payment of compensation and re-imbursement (upheld now by courts) is their turn over rate on routes. Today they have removed 84 routes from the system (source: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240207-w6w4ns24cxld), spread right across their...

The critical things you're missing from your list of 'what you need' is planning permission, willingness/budget from NR to reinstate the connection to sidings including all the signalling gubbins, and then also paths to be found. Also a concentration of customers, as someone else pointed out...

While that's encouraging, I can't see a subsidy of $100 per box being sufficient to build container ports in those towns/cities that (with the exception of Cardiff) do not have container ports. It might encourage trains to Bristol, though?

Last week saw me take one of the most beautiful flights I've ever been on: DXB-KBL. Stunning scenery on a crystal clear day. However, flyDubai doesn't win any awards. The seats on the MAX8 are comfortable enough, though a little snug on the leg room. Thankfully, I had the entire row (and...

I have been to 4 airports 6 times in the last fortnight, though only flew once - it's great to have people visiting over New Year, but it's also a lot of shuttling to and from airports... I have 8 flights (2 Emirates, 2 flyDubai, 4 Turkish Airlines) booked over the next 4 weeks, heading to a...

The French flight ban is a bad comparator. It is pretty half-hearted, but speaking to your point, it includes a time allowance to get from Paris city centre to CDG (enabling CDG-Bordeaux flights to continue, for e.g.). There would be the same allowance made for getting to Schiphol in a Dutch...

While I agree in principle, I think this post is written by someone who has not tried to get very far from Schiphol within two hours. A two hour threshold does not buy you very many restrictions at Schiphol. In fact, just one that is currently served by flights. Germany: ICE trains don't call...

As far as I know there is no set definition of 'bad weather' unless it is that imposed by NATS (flow rate needs slowing down due fog or high winds). You can true to argue that compensation is due because all other flights operated. I doubt you will get very far with this. The only thing you...

As others have said - the issues are with refunds, disruptions, delays and cancellations. I have used them only three times in the past 12 months. They were on time and unremarkable. the departures were from Germany, Bosnia and Italy - none of the departure points gave too much attention to the...

It's been a much quieter year for me. While I'm not a frequent flyer I did 42 flights last year, which compared to the pandemic years felt quite busy. However, what stood out this year was that I had been to nearly as many different airports as flights. My pattern of both work and leisure travel...

Perhaps without being insufferably patronising, could you perhaps substantiate your post? I can't find evidence of 5 trains per day at all. Nor, if I remember, did Orion work 5 trains per day in the past? The path which goes through mid-Cheshire about 0940 was an Orion working pre-Christmas.