Filed under: United Kingdom, Airlines, Airports, News The UK has a bit of a history when it comes to airports getting in the way of your vacation plans. London Heathrow airport is where I've spent many a night waiting for air traffic to get back to normal while they attempt to fix whatever was inter...

Filed under: Business, Airports, Consumer Activism The members of social network Where Are you Now? have spoken! Heathrow is the worst airport in the world, according to voters, thanks to passport control lines and baggage problems. The Brits don't get all the glory, though. JFK in New York and Los ...

The ever-growing coalition of protest against airport expansion rolls up outside Downing St tomorrow. The Campaign Against Climate Change march will set off from Westminster tube station at 5.30pm under the banner of "the green future versus the Brown past". But a much smaller, counter protest will ...

Britain ground to a halt this morning as the transport systems lack of operational competence and depth was once again cruelly exposed. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "We are doing everything in our power to ensure services, road, rail and airport...

Heathrow protestors' hopes of attracting the support of leading climate scientists in their bid to block the airport's proposed third runway have suffered a major setback. Jim Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, has told anti-aviation campaigners that their pr...

Attempting to corrupt a politician is not just nasty it is bad business practice says George Pitcher....

A few months back—while we were discussing the number of talking objects appearing on twitter—Jenny pointed out to me that all Heathrow airport arrivals and departures data is online. That set my mind racing, as if you know all the flights leaving that currently controversial airport, th...

Interesting to see that the protestors of the building of a third runway at Heathrow are aping the strategies used in Second Life. By buying up property that would be required to build the new runway, taxiways, terminals and transport links (which makes it sound remarkably like a new airport altoget...

BAA is expected to fast-track a third runway at Heathrow after the government yesterday backed expanding the airport as soon as possible after 2015. The transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, recommended that the airport owner "brought forward" a planning application for the runway after he made the surpr...

Hundreds of miles of motorway hard shoulder are to be opened up to drivers and plans for a new high speed rail link accelerated as the Government seeks to appease environmentalists over the expansion of Heathrow....