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The best and worst airports in the US
San Diego International Airport has been named the best airport in America for 2019.
In a new ranking by aviation website The Points Guy (TPG), the Californian airport placed top thanks to its facilities, on-time flights and proximity to San Diego proper.
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona, which previously came top in TPG’s 2018 list, placed second.
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Portland Oregon International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (the world’s busiest) and Sacramento International Airport followed in third, fourth and fifth place respectively.
The website ranked 50 airports in the US on factors including the length and difficulty of the commute from the city centre, average length of delays and airport amenities, using data from Inrix and the US Department of Transportation.
At the other end of the spectrum, Chicago Midway International Airport was ranked the worst airport in the US. The second airport to Chicago O’Hare, Midway has “only one lounge and a relatively bare-bones smattering of restaurants”, according to TPG.
Orlando International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Southwest Florida International Airport followed Chicago Midway as the worst airports in the list.
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Severe weather causes travel misery for thousands of air passengers with delays throughout weekend
One of the busiest weekends of the year for air travel has begun with widespread disruption for passengers.
Severe weather is being blamed for long delays and dozens of cancellations on flights to and from airports in southeast England.
At Luton airport, the mopping-up operation continues after rain started pouring through the roof of the terminal on Friday afternoon.
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The airport is telling passengers: “We’ve worked hard to restore airport operations as quickly as possible. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience.”
One round-trip from Luton to Nice on easyJet has been cancelled so far this morning. The airline told passengers at 3am: “We’re very sorry that your flight has been cancelled. We understand that this is late notice but due a lightning strike to two of our planes, we’ve had to make changes to our flying programme and we are unable to operate your flight.
“The disruption is beyond our control and is considered an extraordinary circumstance.”
It adds to the easyJet eight cancellations on Friday evening to and from Luton, including some at very late notice.
Paul McNamara told The Independent on Friday: “EasyJet have surpassed themselves this evening. My three-month-pregnant daughter travelling with her two-year-old is on a cancelled flight to Menorca from Luton.
“Nobody around to tell them what to do as they have passed passport control. All staff seem to have disappeared. I wrote to online customer services who have sent an automated reply that they will get back in 28 days – you couldn’t make it up. The telephone shut at 8pm.”
His daughter was later booked on a British Airways flight from Gatwick on Saturday afternoon, and given a hotel room.
A spokesperson for easyJet said: “Due to adverse weather conditions, easyJet, like other airlines, is experiencing disruption to its flying programme at London Luton Airport.
“As a result of flooding of the immigration area, passenger flow through immigration has been reduced, leading to delays for arriving passengers and which has had a knock-on effect for some departing flights.
“Customers on cancelled flights have been given the option of transferring their flight free of charge or receiving a refund.
“We have also provided hotel rooms and meals for customers who required them and any customers who arranged their own will be reimbursed for reasonable expenses.”
Another dozen easyJet flights between Gatwick and various European locations were grounded on Friday, with severe weather and air traffic control restrictions blamed for some short-notice cancellations.
Flights connecting Amsterdam with Manchester and Southend were also cancelled.
One passenger stranded in Amsterdam by easyJet on Friday evening tweeted on Saturday morning: “Finally home. My flight from Amsterdam to London was cancelled yesterday evening, @easyJet abandoned the desk without sorting everybody out, including me. Managed to get a flight for this morning with the lovely @British_Airways. But EJ be expecting the claims and complaints.”
Disruption at easyJet has continued on Saturday morning. A round-trip from Bristol to Amsterdam was grounded “due to a crew member being unable to operate your flight”.
An inbound flight from Madrid to Gatwick was cancelled “because of air traffic control restrictions causing long delays yesterday”.
Passengers were told: “This means your plane it’s out of position and it’s not able to operate you flight [sic].” They were warned they would not qualify for cash compensation for the cancellation.
Some flights to and from Heathrow have been cancelled or severely delayed, particularly on British Airways.
BA has so far cancelled eight flights into Heathrow, as a result of problems on Friday, and its sister airline Iberia has grounded a round-trip from and to Madrid.
At Heathrow, British Airways passengers from Dubai arrived 17 hours late. A Friday night flight from Edinburgh is currently delayed by 16 hours, while a flight from Shanghai due in at 6.15am on Saturday morning is 24 hours behind schedule.
One BA service from Munich to London City has been diverted to Southend.
BA cancelled nearly 200 flights on Wednesday and Thursday as a result of an IT systems failure.
Security staff at Barcelona airport are staging a 24-hour strike, but the government has mandated that staff maintain 90 per cent of the usual level of cover and no delays are yet reported.
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UK weather: Rail disruption continues amid flooded lines and power cuts
Rain, wind and thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday and Sunday, causing further disruption on many of Britain’s railways.
The Met Office is warning: “Very windy across the south with both coastal and inland gales, with sunny spells and scattered showers.
“Further north occasional heavy, slow-moving showers, with a risk of hail and thunder.”
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Heavy rain has flooded the West Coast main line in Cumbria between Penrith and Carlisle.
“Trains running between these stations may be delayed by up to 45 minutes, revised or cancelled,” said National Rail.
Passengers on Virgin Trains customers may use their ticket on CrossCountry services between Birmingham and Edinburgh via Derby and York, and on LNER services via any reasonable route.
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In South East England, forecast severe weather is expected to affect services across the Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink network on Saturday.
“Wind speeds will increase throughout the day and may exceed 50mph at times,” passengers are being told.
National Rail warned: ”Speed restrictions will be in place on the south coast and throughout Kent. With trains moving more slowly, delays are likely to occur.”
Thameslink and Great Northern services north of London suffered severe disruption due to power cuts.
The operators, both part of Govia, said: “We are continuing to work though the list of displaced stock, and further alterations due to Fridays disruption may still be necessary. We will publish these as soon as possible.
“You are strongly advised to check your journey before travelling, and should consider travelling later if possible.”
Many services on the East Coast main line were heavily delayed. The author, Jini Reddy, tweeted: “Amazingly have been on a delayed @lner train now for six hours (in addition to the four hours of the regular journey).
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“I really, really feel for the crew and the driver who must be exhausted.”
National Rail said: “On Friday evening, a power failure affected southern parts of the UK, and this caused major disruption to trains to and from London Kings Cross. Although power has been restored, trains remain disrupted.”
The line between Guildford and Reading was closed following a tree falling across the line in the North Camp area.
“Trains may still be delayed by up to 30 minutes or cancelled,” says Great Western Railway.
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UK power cut brings trains, airports and traffic lights to a standstill during rush hour
A widespread power cut is bringing transport to a standstill across the UK during rush hour, including airports, trains and ports, plus traffic lights in the capital.
Thameslink, the network that services both Gatwick and Luton airports, has announced that “services running across the whole network may be cancelled or delayed” for the rest of the day.
A spokesperson said: “A widescale failure of the power grid has brought many of our trains that use the overhead wires to a stand. This is causing significant disruption to Thameslink and Great Northern trains. Services may be cancelled, delayed or revised until the end of the day. We have put in place alternative travel advice which is available on our website and national rail enquiries and on social media and would urge passengers to check before they travel. We are doing everything we can to keep passengers informed and get them moving again.”
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They added: “The trains have been affected by the power outage to the point where they require a technician to restart them. As this will take time, we are beginning to evacuate some of the trains that are stranded outside platforms. Our advice to customers is to stay on board trains for their own safety.”
A Network Rail spokeswoman said: “There was a power surge on the national grid this evening which means we lost power to all our signalling over a wide area, including the Newport, Gloucester, Ashford, Bristol, Eastbourne, Hastings, Three Bridges and Exeter areas.”
Transport for London (TFL) has warned that some traffic lights have gone down, while the Victoria Line on the London Underground has also been suspended.
There is disruption to all services across the Gatwick Express, Great Northern and Southern networks. Train operators have said services may be cancelled, delayed or revised.
The problem is also affecting East Midlands Trains services to and from London St Pancras International and LNER services to and from London Kings Cross.
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) tweeted: “Due to a major failure of the electricity supply, services into and out of King’s Cross are suspended. Customer advice is DO NOT TRAVEL. Customers holding tickets for today, Friday 9 August, may use their tickets tomorrow Saturday 10 August.”
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Train companies are advising passengers onboard trains that aren’t moving to “remain on the train. Train Operators are working to get trains on the move as soon as possible.”
Passengers affected by the power cut are being told they can use their tickets at no additional cost on the following services: the London Underground on all reasonable routes; the London Overground on all reasonable routes; TfL buses on all reasonable routes; Gatwick Express services between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport or Brighton; Greater Anglia services between London and Cambridge; CrossCountry services to or from Cambride, Ely, and Peterborough; East Midlands Trains between London St Pancras and Bedford; Southeastern between London and Rainham, Sevenoaks and Orpington; South Western Railway services between London Waterloo and Wimbledon; Tramlink services between Beckenham Junction and Wimbledon; Uno Buses on routes 601, 602 and 653; and Arriva Buses on routes 55, 97, 98, 100 and 101.
Newcastle Airport has also been hit by the outage. Scott McKenzie, 31, was at the airport when the power cut out for around 15 minutes.
“It was a bit worrying to start – more so because various alarms were going off and staff clearly didn’t quite know what was going on either,” he told PA.
“Some of the spaces in the airport have little daylight – we were literally plunged into darkness and people were using their phones as torches to see and get around.”
Airport officials said it was due to “wider problems in the region”, but have since told The Independent: “We’re aware of some power issues at the airport and across the local area. We would like to assure all passengers that we are currently 100 per cent operational and there is no disruption.”
Transport for London tweeted: “Due to a large scale National Grid failure there is a power cut in the London and South East areas, meaning that some traffic lights are down. Please be very cautious on the roads!”
Police officers could be forced to man busy junctions, a spokeswoman for Transport for London (TFL) confirmed.
Ellesmere Port is also without power.
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Why have unlimited flight passes disappeared?
Until 10 minutes before the plane left, I had no idea I wanted to go to Edmonton. The Alberta provincial capital is not overflowing with appeal, but from the point of view of a budget traveller the relative weakness of the Canadian dollar meant a night’s stay would be cheaper than on the US side of the border. And besides, the Airbus A320 had some empty seats.
The location was Minneapolis-St Paul airport, somewhere I spent a fair amount of time in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The reason: it was a primary hub for Northwest Airlines. And Northwest offered a one-month unlimited travel air pass for $499 (then £335). For under £11 per day you could fly far and wide across the US and Canada, so long as there was a seat available.
In the low-density days three decades ago, there usually was space on North American flights: high fares, relative to today, made sure of that.
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So Northwest, along with its then-competitor, Delta, earned some incremental revenue by selling overseas visitors air passes.
Travel was entirely standby, with the small print warning that you could be hauled off the plane (figuratively) before departure if a proper fare-paying passenger turned up. That never happened to me, and on the rare occasions when your chosen flight was full at the hubs (which also included Boston and Memphis for Northwest, and Atlanta, Dallas and LAX for Delta) you could always find a plan B – even if it did involve Edmonton.
The airpass traveller could cut the cost of accommodation still further by taking overnight flights – especially from the west coast to the east, which typically departed close to midnight and touched down around 7am.
Sometimes, it was tough to find a way out of some of the cities at the end of the “spokes”: after a fruitless day at Austin, I had to rent a car to drive to Dallas. But for covering lots of ground the airpass was way ahead of the Greyhound bus and Amtrak train unlimited travel deals.
Like all good things, it came to an end. In April 1994 both Delta and Northwest stopped selling the passes. A cheap and flexible transcontinental option for North America continued with Air Canada’s regional operation allowing you to hop (painfully slowly) from the Atlantic to the Pacific for a couple of hundred dollars.
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The concept struggled into the 21st century, but airlines such as AirAsia have tried offering unlimited standbys and then dropped the concept. I understand that was partly because of the logistical complications involved, and partly because of the issue of “abstraction” – with passengers who would be prepared to pay proper prices on AirAsia taking advantage of the airpass to save cash.
British Airways offers a kind of airpass – through Optiontown, it sells multiple flights on specific routes at fixed fares. But I priced up six one-way flights between Heathrow and Edinburgh, to be used in the course of a year and bookable up to four hours before departure, and the price per hop is £175. No thanks.
But this week’s kerfuffle over Interrail – “we’re in/out/in again” – made me wonder if a standby airless could ever work.
I think it could, and the place to start: Flybe, soon to be rebranded as another Virgin carrier. Because most of the carrier’s routes have reasonable alternatives – particularly domestically within Britain – I would be happy to take my chances.
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At the start of the year, I would cheerfully pay, say, £500 for 10 flights over the course of the year. Putting people like me on standby is a gentler and less risky alternative to overbooking.
I could register for my intended flight online, and get a sense of whether I was likely to fly. Were I consistently unlucky, I would expect some of my cash back for unused flights – and conversely if I used all the flights within six months, Flybe could decide whether to offer me more.
Extras, notably checked luggage, would cost more – offering the airline more incremental revenue.
Perhaps the new management would like to test the idea. I can even offer a name for it: Interfly. You know where to find me.
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Best Activities to Explore in the Philippines for Travel Lovers
There is an unimaginable range of activities and travel-related things for a travel lover to explore in the Philippines. So much so that more you will read about the places and its attractions, the more confused your mind will become about the sorting out a travel itinerary of choice. When one gets too many good things to digest at once, this is always insisted to be selective and thorough rather than getting a piece from whatever you can. A piece won’t let you enjoy the taste while it does ruin in your dinner, on the other hand, you would miss out on many options when you will selectively pick just a few options but at least, you will be ensured of enjoying to the fullest and your heart’s satisfaction.
Similar kind of situation awaits every traveller while visiting a country as diverse as the Philippines. With more than 7000 islands and all being tropical paradise in their own right, you are prone to get confused. So rather seeking it all, go for the limited but the most unique ones that the place has to offer. For your help, we have figured out a few activities that you would surely love to explore as a traveller in the Philippines. You can simply choose the best Travel Deals to the Philippines using Klook Promo Code or Klook Voucher Code to avail exclusive rebates on your bookings.
Wander Around Banaue Rice Terraces
The tourist destination and rice terrace do not seem to go in the same flow for many people but you will be in no doubt about the synonymous meaning of Rice terrace once you wander around the beautiful landscape of Banaue. This place is impeccably crafted by the local farmers who were forced to develop a farming technique to grow food for themselves and their families amidst the mountainous and hilly slopes. Some geological studies have revealed that these terraces were prepared by the farmers around 2000 years back which obviously means they did it all by themselves without the help of any mechanical tools and machinery equipment. A hiking trip down these locales would serve a big lesson for your life and motivate you to rise up against adversities.
Witness the Taal Lake of Tagaytay
This is an active volcanic site located near a freshwater lake which together adds to form an invaluably exquisite view you would never be able to get it out of your memories for the rest of your life. Such is the insane charm and attractiveness of this place that it keeps you will forget to blink in between on a number of occasions while touring this place. The lake filled with freshwater covers more than 240 sq km and covers a portion of the volcanic sight on one of its end known as Mount Taal. The height of the volcanic mountain site is around 300 metres though it is deemed very risky to visit the top of the mountain as it is considered an active volcanic site which spilt out the hot liquid in the year 1970 last time. All being said, this is indeed one of the most incredible natural wonders of the earth and the Philippines happens to be the lucky place to possess many such marvels of nature.
Get Mesmerized by Chocolate Hills
The Chocolate Hills is one of the most popular places in the Philippines and as a travel lover, you will be committing nothing short of a crime if you skip the tour to Chocolate Hill for any reason at all. These hills are found in the central island territory of Bohol. While many tourists would find themselves lazy to move further once they take a short rest on the tremendous beaches of Bohol, it is no lesser delightful to witness the astounding chocolate hills, a true marvel of nature. The exotic sightseeing locale is particularly known for its unusual geographic formations that never fail to awe-inspire you no matter how many times you look at them. Get the best hotel deals in the Philippines using the Hotels.com Promo Code, Hotels.com Coupons, Hotels.com Discount Code for saving hefty amounts on your travel accommodations.
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UK to remain in Interrail scheme after U-turn
With a U-turn that arrived quicker than many trans-European trains, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has decided to remain part of the unlimited rail travel schemes, Interrail and Eurail.
On Wednesday, the RDG announced that it was terminating its participation in both programmes. UK train operators had been trialling the Eurail scheme, which is open to people living outside Europe. The RDG wanted to remain within Interrail but not Eurail.
There were claims that train operators preferred to market the UK-only BritRail pass worldwide, and felt that the Eurail product eroded revenue – because only a fraction was passed to UK operators.
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The RDG blamed the Eurail head office in Brussels for the decision.
But rail campaigners, including the international trains expert Mark Smith – known as “The Man in Seat Sixty-One” – were incensed.
The decision would have meant British travellers could buy Interrail but enjoy the travel benefits only from London rather than their local station.
Conversely, European visitors to the UK would need to buy extra tickets to explore further than the capital, jeopardising tourism to regions and nations beyond London.
Within 24 hours of the decision, LNER – the nationalised operator which runs the East Coast main line – had broken with the RDG’s decision. David Horne, LNER’s managing director, said: “We will continue to accept customers using passes as part of the Eurail and Interrail system.
“LNER is proud to encourage people to travel with us and visit the many locations along our route.
“LNER recognises the value of international tourists wishing to visit the many popular destinations in England and Scotland served by the train company.” Shortly afterwards the RDG tweeted: “We are pleased to be able to tell passengers that we have reached agreement and will be remaining part of both the Interrail and Eurail passes.”
Mark Smith said: “This has really made my day.
“Hats off to RDG and National Rail operators for listening. Many, many people young and old will appreciate this for years to come.”
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Euston delays: Severe disruption facing thousands due to earlier signal failure
Thousands of passengers are facing evening disruption thanks to an earlier signal failure at London Euston station.
All services from London’s fifth busiest station were suspended this afternoon following a signalling fault.
All lines have since reopened, and services are beginning to return to normal, according to National Rail.
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However, disruption is expected to last until 8pm ”and trains may still be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised”.
Trains have also been cancelled at other stations around the country, including Manchester, as they are unable to travel to Euston.
Customers for stations to Watford Junction can use their ticket on Chiltern Railways, London Northwestern, London Underground, Thameslink and Southern services.
Passengers travelling on Virgin Trains can use their tickets for travel tomorrow or receive a full refund, the train operator announced.
London Northwestern, which runs services from the capital to northwest England, is currently trying to source road transport for passengers. Customers can also use their tickets on Chiltern Railways, Cross Country, East Midlands Trains, Great Western Railway, London Overground, Thameslink, Virgin Trains and Southern via any reasonable route, the operator announced.
Any passenger with a ticket to travel in or out of Euston today should check National Rail before travel.
Passengers will be able to apply for compensation if their journey is delayed by more than 30 minutes.
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Venice to ban cruise ships from centre
Venice is set to ban cruise ships from its historic centre, following a prolonged battle between residents and ocean liners.
Cruise ships have long been the scourge of Venice, a city already struggling under the weight of overtourism.
The Italian minister for transport announced that ships would be re-routed away from the centre of Venice to ports such as the outlying Fusina and Lombardia terminals. Both these terminals are still within the Venetian lagoon.
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Danilo Toninelli said that the liners, which can carry around 3,000 passengers, would be diverted away from central Venice from next month, as reported by the Financial Times.
By next year, a third of cruise ships would be diverted away from central Venice.
Longer term, the city will consult with residents on where new berths for cruise ships would be situated.
The decision follows a June incident where a cruise liner hit a dock in Venice.
Four people were injured when a towering cruise ship crashed into a dock and a tourist river boat on one of Venice’s busiest canals. It happened on the Giudecca Canal – a major thoroughfare that leads to Saint Mark’s Square.
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Following the June collision, the mayor of Venice threatened to request that Unesco put the city on its “blacklist” over an ongoing battle with cruise ships.
Luigi Brugnaro said Venice residents had no faith in the Italian government after a cruise liner crashed into the docks, injuring four people, earlier in June.
In response, Venice locals took the streets in protest, carrying signs saying: “Keep large boats out of the lagoon.”
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Ryanair strike: Everything you need to know
Who is planning to go on strike, and why?
UK-based pilots working for Ryanair and belonging to the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) appear exasperated about a wide range of concerns.
“Our claim includes many issues including pensions; loss-of-licence insurance; maternity benefits; allowances; and a fair, transparent, and consistent pay structure,” the union said.
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“We have made no progress with Ryanair management on any of those areas at all, seemingly because Ryanair management cannot understand how to go about working with us constructively, or how to negotiate.”
Balpa says 80 per cent of pilots voted in favour of strike action on a 72 per cent turnout. That means 56 per cent of union members voted for a stoppage.
Ryanair responded by saying the strike has the support of less than 30 per cent of its UK-based pilots, once non-members are taken into account.
“Balpa have no mandate to disrupt our customers holidays and flights, particularly at a time when UK pilots are facing job losses due to the Boeing Max delivery delays, and the threat of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October,” a spokesperson said.
Last week Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, said the airline had 500 more pilots than it needs for the winter.
Ryanair claims that last year its UK pilots agreed a 20 per cent pay rise, taking some senior captains’ annual earnings up to £180,000.
It has asked the union to return to talks.
When will the Ryanair pilots’ strike take place?
The pilots have announced five days of disruption: on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 August, and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 2-4 September. The strikes are planned for extremely busy days, especially for British families flying home to the UK from the Mediterranean
Brian Strutton, Balpa’s general secretary, said: “It is imperative that we resolve this dispute urgently to avoid strike action. No pilot wants to spoil the public’s travel plans but at the moment it seems we have no choice.”
How disruptive would a strike be?
More than two million passengers are expected to fly with Ryanair on those five strike days, but a large majority of them are not on aircraft planned to be flown by UK pilots.
The Independent estimates that around 350,000 travellers are booked to fly on British-crewed flights on those dates – with up to 50,000 seats still to be sold on those departures.
Because of the Ryanair business model it is unlikely that flights on any adjacent days, eg 24 August or 1 September, will be affected.
If a settlement is not found, experience of Ryanair pilots’ strikes over the past year suggests the impact is likely to be patchy, with around one-third to one-half of UK-crewed flights cancelled.
Note that many flights serving the UK will definitely not be affected, because they use crews based in France, Spain, Italy, etc, for flights to and from British airports.
The airline traditionally informs passengers on flights that are to set to be cancelled two or three days ahead.
I am flying on a strike day. Can I cancel now, get a full refund and make alternative arrangements?
No. The airline and union both say they do not want the strikes to go ahead. Even if they do, a significant number of Ryanair flights will operate. The only time the airline will offer a refund is once cancellations have been decided, two or three days ahead.
At this point cancelling for a refund would be unwise, because is absolves the airline of making alternative arrangements for your travel …
What are my rights if the flight is cancelled?
Under European air passengers’ rights rules, Ryanair must find you a flight as soon as possible – including on another airline if necessary. Unless it can put you on another Ryanair flight at a very similar time to a different carrier, it must pay for a new ticket.
Ryanair must also meet attendant expenses, such as transport from Stansted to Gatwick or Heathrow to take a flight on easyJet or British Airways respectively.
If you are obliged to stay overnight – as many UK families trying to return home may be – Ryanair must provide reasonable accommodation and pay for all your meals, along with transport to and from the airport.
If I lose a night in a hotel I have booked, or a day’s pay at work, who do I claim from: travel insurance, credit card or Ryanair?
Your travel insurance policy may cover so-called “consequential losses” for money wasted on hotels or car rental. Credit-card firms accept liability only for services that are not delivered; if the problem is that the hotel is in Spain but you are in Britain, cover does not apply. And it is unlikely the airline will pay.
For late arrival home, again your insurer may offer a small payment. You could pursue Ryanair for financial damage under the Montreal Convention, but for relatively small amounts it is probably not worth the trouble.
What about compensation?
The Civil Aviation Authority insists that Ryanair must pay compensation under European air passengers’ rights rules of €250 (£230) for cancelled flights of up to 1,500km, and €400 (£370) for longer trips.
But the airline says the strike is beyond its control and it need not pay.
If the strike goes ahead, no doubt a test case will settle which side is correct.
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Rome bans people sitting down on famous landmarks
Rome officials have started to enforce the ban that restricts tourists from sitting on the city’s famous landmarks.
Police have started implementing a law that forbids Italians and tourists from sitting on protected monuments like the Spanish Steps, one of the Italian capital’s many Unesco World Heritage Sites and a popular tourist attraction.
According to Associated Press, police officers dressed in yellow vests have been seen telling people to stand up this week.
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A ban, which came into effect in June, warned that sitting, eating or drinking on the steps carried a fine of up to €400 (£370).
The ordinance also applies to other protected sites in Rome, such as the Trevi Fountain.
Rome has long been cracking down on bad tourist behaviour, with a slew of new rules introduced that cover everything from public snacking to drinking from water fountains.
The Italian capital has outlawed men going topless in public and the practice of attaching “love padlocks” to bridges, both of which carry a fine if contravened.
Eating messy foods around popular tourist attractions such as the Trevi Fountain is also a no-no according to the new regulations, as is touching your lips against the spout when drinking from Roman public water fountains.
Last month, two tourists were fined €950 (£854) and ordered to leave Venice for making coffee next to the Rialto bridge.
The backpackers, a man and a woman in their 30s, were arrested by local police after a resident spotted them sitting on the steps using a camping stove.
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British Airways boss says airlines must ‘think about flying in different ways’ to reduce environmental impact
British Airways and its competitor airlines “have to be thinking about flying in different ways” to reduce their environmental impact, its chief executive has said.
Alex Cruz said airlines cannot operate exactly as they have done “over the last 100 years” and must adapt by changing how they fly, including the services they offer and the seating density of their planes.
BA is already investing millions of pounds in sustainable jet fuel produced from household waste while easyJet is working on plans for an electric-powered aircraft that could be used on short flights.
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Mr Cruz said he had been inspired by conversations with his four children on the subject and insisted BA was “absolutely committed” to using sustainable fuels.
Speaking to The Independent onboard the airline’s brand new A350 jet, which features BA’s upgraded business class offering complete with lie flat bed and sliding door, Mr Cruz said it was “impossible … not to be affected” by the views of young people as they were growing up in a “completely different environment‘”.
He said: “We believe that flying makes absolute sense for the development of the world, but at the same time we don’t believe that flying can be done like it has been done over the last 100 years.
“So when we look at the next 100 years we have to be thinking about flying in different ways.
“And that includes experiences on the ground: how do you prepare, what you load on the aircraft, the type of food you offer, how you offer it, the seats, the density, etc. There are many, many aspects around flying in the future – we are going to be there, I just don’t know what the shape is going to be.”
He added: “It is going to be dictated by our collective values which sometimes are generated in our kitchens when we have discussions with our teenagers and they tell us ‘what are you doing about this’. So BA will adapt, it has been adapting and it will adapt.
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“I think it is impossible for anybody not to be affected somehow [by those conversations], because they [his teenage children] are growing up in a completely different environment than what we grew up in. So the conversations are frequent, the debate is frequent and I think that anybody who has teenagers or young people in the family will be having these sort of discussions. And certainly in my kitchen there are quite a few of those discussions taking place every week.”
BA’s parent company, IAG, plans to invest $400m (£328m) on developing alternative sustainable fuels over the next two decades.
The airline is also the first in Europe to invest in building a plant that converts organic household waste into jet fuel.
Earlier this summer a team at University College London won a BA-sponsored sustainable fuel competition which researchers hope will, by the middle of this century, enable 3.5million tonnes of jet fuel to be produced annually using converted household waste at plants attached to landfill sites around the UK.
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