Rail strike: 24-hour industrial action on Southern trains causes travel disruption June 21, 2016 A 24-hour train strike on key commuter routes has caused chaos as a dispute continues between RMT union and Southern rail. Southern has had to cancel certain trains, while others are expected to be severally delayed, including routes to London Victoria. Southern said: "The strike will have a significant effect on Southern services on the whole [...]
Rail commuters could see annual fares rise by more than £100 in the aftermath of a Brexit vote, Remain campaigners say June 21, 2016 Annual rail fares could face hundred-pound increases according to new figures. Fares between London and Oxford could climb by more than £150, while an annual fare from Ashford to London could rise £165. Annual travel between Liverpool and Manchester would rise by £80. Rail far rises are currently capped by inflation, but Remain campaigners have [...]
Boeing is selling 100 planes to Iran June 20, 2016 Iran has reached a deal to buy 100 Boeing planes, the head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation has told state media. Ali Abedzadeh added the two sides are waiting on approval from the US government. "Of the 250 [passenger] planes in Iran, 230 have to be replaced," Abedzadeh told Mehr News Agency. He added that no timeline [...]
VW set for face-off with investors in Germany at shareholders’ meeting June 19, 2016 German car giant Volkswagen will face the ire of investors on Wednesday. Questions are expected to focus on the firm’s board structure and lingering issues over emissions. Advisory groups have come out in force against the company. Hermes, EOS, Institutional Shareholder Services, and Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (Pirc) have urged clients to reject a [...]
London transport officials in early-stage talks to bring mobile coverage on to underground June 19, 2016 The London underground could be getting mobile coverage after it emerged Transport for London (TfL) is in talks with several potential providers. The discussions, still in their early stages, are thought to involve a division of the US networking giant Commscope, Airvana, which specialises in providing mobile signals in small spaces. The plans to bring [...]
Fastjet hits out at Stelios Haji-Ioannou for attacking chairman June 16, 2016 Fastjet has hit out at Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the co-founder and second-biggest shareholder in the African airline, for calling on investors to oust its chairman. Child became chairman of the Tanzania-based airline in September last year. Haji-Ioannou condemned Child for taking a lot of time to appoint a new CEO after Ed Winter quit on January. Nico Bezuidenhout, who [...]
Meet Rolls-Royce’s crazy driverless supercar and the glass-fronted Mini concept car of the future June 16, 2016 Rolls-Royce has created a super luxury car of the future ditching a chauffeur and any kind of driver entirely while serving the super rich with a robot concierge. The car delivers passengers to their destination in the style of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" with a canopy roof opening up to allow owners to stand up fully as [...]
UberEats has arrived in London June 16, 2016 Not only is Uber disrupting the way we travel, it's eyeing up the way we eat too. Now Londoners will be able to get food delivered from top restaurants straight to their door via an app in exactly the same way they now order a car. The separate UberEats app will let users order from a [...]
Uber’s Apple-backed rival Didi Chuxing just raised billions June 16, 2016 The taxi wars are hotting up. A day after reports of Uber raising a further $2bn (£1.4bn) to add to its already rather large cash pile, its rival in China has announced another $7bn in new funding that puts it squarely on the tail of the US startup when it comes to being the most well-funded private startup [...]
Airlines could sit on £112m of flight compensation this summer, as 70 per cent of customers won’t claim back for delays June 16, 2016 UK flyers could lose out on £112m in flight delay compensation this summer, according to new research from comparison website Money.co.uk. Seven in 10 UK travellers are unlikely to claim compensation from their airline this summer for delays to their journeys. However, this could be because consumer believe they will receive just £176 if they make [...]