Travelport (NYSE:TVPT), a leading Travel Commerce Platform, has announced a multi-year renewal agreement with long-standing customer, Global Travel Management (GTM), one of the UK’s leading privately owned travel management companies. As part of the agreement, GTM will continue to process its travel bookings through the Travel Commerce Platform, providing them with access to Travelport’s […]
More than 2,000 members of British Airways cabin crew staff have voted to strike in a dispute over pay. The workers, who represents around 15% of the airline’s cabin crew, were balloted on plans for an industrial walkout affecting services at Heathrow, the Unite union has said. The decision comes after BA cabin crew […]
Flug.check24.de reported strikes will affect air travel in Italy on Thursday, 15 December. Ground staff at Milan airports have announced a four-hour strike from 11 am, local time. Some staff at Alitalia have also announced a 24-hour strike for the same day. The strike will run from 00:01 am, local time. Passengers are urged to […]
Surrey business award winner, Global Travel Management, one of the UK’s leading business travel management companies, this week announced the appointment of Kelly Packington to its board. Kelly, who lives in Addlestone, near GTM’s Woking head office, started working for the company as a Senior reservations consultant in 2003 and became an Office Manager in […]
Train services in and out of Paris’s busy Gare du Nord resumed on Wednesday afternoon having have been completely halted because of a massive power cut, French rail operator SNCF said. French rail operator SNCF said that services had been halted completely at 1:20 pm, but had started to resume after two hours’ paralysis. The […]
The latest strike by Lufthansa pilots grounded almost 900 flights on Wednesday and German companies and other Lufthansa staff called for an end to the protests which are costing the airline 10-15 million euros a day. Pilots staged a four-day strike last week then resumed their protest over pay that dates back to early 2014 […]
British Airways has announced a change to its credit card fee for consumer and trade bookings. From 14 December 2016, if customers choose to pay using a credit card they will now be charged a non-refundable 1% fee of their total ticket price, up to a maximum of £20. British Airways will continue to offer […]
The members of the RMT Union are planning to take strike action on various dates in the upcoming months. These include: Today (23 November) Tuesday 6 December to Thursday 8 December Thursday 22 December to Saturday 24 December Saturday 31 December to Monday 2 January If these strikes go ahead they will have a significant […]
Germany’s pilot union said it planned another 24-hour walkout at Lufthansa on Thursday, after strikes announced for Wednesday led to the cancellation of roughly a third of all flights of the German airline. The union in a statement said all of Lufthansa’s short and long-haul flights out of Germany will be affected by the […]
Pilots at Lufthansa will go on strike on Wednesday, increasing pressure in a long-running pay dispute with the airline’s management, their union said on Monday. The strike will run for 24 hours from midnight and affect short-haul and long-haul flights, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said in a statement. The pilots are striking after pay […]
