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Air passengers to get a new champion

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Good news for holiday travellers as the Transport Secretary has announced new Government plans for a new champion for air travellers when things go wrong with flights. Rail watchdog, Passenger Focus, will become responsible for upholding passengers rights. In further good news for holiday travellers and a further rebuke to the Civil Aviation Authority, the minister Geoff Hoon said that […]

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Airlines being kept going by family visits

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The Civil Aviation Authority has reported that nearly a quarter of International traffic – that’s almost 40 million passengers – are travelling to see friends and family.  This is a big rise since 2001 and highlights the increasing importance of friends and family travellers to the airline industry and travel industry as a whole.  Will the impact of the credit crunch increase mean that the […]

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