British Airways has announced flights to yet another US state that voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Twice-weekly services from Heathrow to Charleston, South Carolina, begin on 4 April 2019. Sean Doyle, BA’s director of Network and Alliances, said: “You can’t help but get sucked in to the old-world charm of Charleston.…
A person in the Netherlands has become the first in the country to receive a gender neutral passport. The news follows a Dutch court ruling earlier this year, which declared that a third gender should be recognised for people who don’t identify as male or female. Leonne Zeegers, a 57-year-old from Breda, has received a…
“I’m not going to fight you,” the yoga teacher said, rubbing the bruise on his arm that had formed when I aggressively kicked him as he tried to adjust my shoulder stand. It was the last thing I wanted to hear a yoga teacher say, but I was struggling to unwind after a gruelling 18…
Making the most of annual leave is usually low down on the priority list for the UK’s increasingly workaholic population. Recent research by TravelSupermarket found that more than 1.4 million Brits could lose their remaining annual leave in 2018, forfeiting 8.4 days on average per person. “It’s worrying to see that so many Brits are still…
Cobalt, based at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus, has stopped flying. The airline flew from Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester to Larnaca, its main hub, and from Gatwick to Athens. It offered connections to Beirut and Tel Aviv, and also served Frankfurt, Moscow and Paris. Last-ditch attempts to procure additional funding failed, and late on the evening…
The long-awaited bridge between the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau will open on 23 October, making it the longest sea crossing in the world. The 55km bridge, which connects the cities of Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai across the South China Sea, is designed to boost economic development between the region, according to the…
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is China’s first to launch an automated security clearance system using facial recognition. Introduced on Monday 15 October in Terminal One, the eight security machines scan passengers’ ID cards and faces to check they match, reducing the clearance procedure time to around 12 seconds. It is only available to Chinese ID…
You can smell it on the breeze. Something funky, fresh and earthy. After years on the margins, its true believers are going public, and if you listen in bars and cafes from Ottawa to Vancouver to Montreal, you’ll likely hear talk of the new nationwide manifesto. There are idealists and sceptics, and those who still…
The first electric-hybrid aircraft to use Heathrow Airport will escape landing charges for a year – a prize worth up to £1m. The airport’s chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, is to launch the race at the BusinessGreen Leaders Summit in London. The first plane is expected to touch down at Europe’s busiest airport within 12 years.…
At key stations outside London as few as one in three trains is on time, a survey by Which? has found. The consumer organisation studied punctuality data for the 10 busiest London stations and 20 busiest outside the capital for the first nine months of 2018, to reveal what it calls “Britain’s train travel blackspots”.…
Passengers on Eurostar are enduring a second day of chaos, with long delays and cancellations. A freight train has broken down in the Channel Tunnel, which means trains can run on only one of the two bores. The first departure of the day from London to Paris, which is understood to have entered the tunnel…
“The only easy day was yesterday,” insists one of the slogans daubed inside Britain’s newest tourist attraction: the Bear Grylls Adventure. But first you have to reach it, and London Northwestern Railway appears to be in on the “most incredible mental and physical challenges” that the latest addition to Birmingham’s assets promises. The train from London…
Extreme weather in the UK and the Atlantic is causing severe disruption to public transport. As Storm Callum continues to batter the western side of Britain, dozens of trains in Wales have been cancelled. The mid-Wales line between Machynlleth and Newtown is closed until Monday morning, and no trains are running on the North Wales branch line…
If you have encountered CNN’s Richard Quest on a flight, there’s a good chance that it was setting a new aviation endurance record. In March, the business journalist was aboard the inaugural non-stop flight from Australia to the UK, Qantas flight 9 from Perth to London – a point-to-point distance of 9,009 miles. And early…
The world’s longest commercial flight has touched down at New York’s Newark Airport half an hour ahead of schedule, despite leaving Singapore late. The restored Singapore Airlines flight SQ22 took 17 hours 52 minutes – 33 minutes less than the scheduled time. Onboard, there were no cheap seats – only 94 premium economy seats and…