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Bus firm wins New Zealand order
The Falkirk bus maker Alexander Dennis wins a £25m order to supply 120 buses to New Zealand.
Insurers could get access to DVLA database
Motor insurers could be given access to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency records, Mike Penning, the road safety minister, has told MPs.
Pay-as-you-dig repairs set to end ‘ghost’ roadworks
Abandoned 'ghost' roadworks that blight London’s streets are expected to disappear within months as a pay-as-you-dig scheme becomes one step closer to law today
Stagecoach Orders 520 New Vehicles for UK
* Transport group to buy 360 buses and coaches for UK regions * Fleet of 160 vehicles to be leased for London operations * Passengers across UK benefit from investment in greener buses * Orders bring UK spend on new vehicles in past four years to nearly £290m
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
The Telegraph
- BAE abandons $1.5bn sale of Platform Solutions AE Systems has abandoned plans to sell a US division that makes parts for civil aircraft, after failing to get the price it wanted.
- Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's own law firm Bird & Bird sues easyJet founder over unpaid bills The law firm that represented Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou in his brand dispute with easyJet, resulting in a royalty deal heading for £10m a year, is suing him over unpaid bills.
Mail Online
- Number of passengers killed in airline crashes soars in 2010 ¿ but it's still safer than travelling on the roadsThere were 817 deaths to passengers and crew in 2010 compared with 749 in 2009 and only 583 in 2008, statistics from Flight International magazine showed.
- New York snow: More than 2,000 flights cancelled on East CoastA storm which has caused havoc in the South over the last 48 hours is now bearing down on New York and New Jersey just two weeks after another massive snowstorm paralysed the Big Apple.
Birmingham Mail
- EasyJet apologises for fuel error at Birmingham airport EasyJet has apologised after 30 passengers were ordered off a plane in Birmingham which had been loaded with too much fuel to take off.
Sunderland Echo
- Flight route hits the skidsA BUDGET airline has pulled out of a North East airport just months after threatening to withdraw over a controversial new charge.
Other Regional Press
- Aberdeen set for new flights to New YorkA NEW route to New York from Aberdeen was launched at Aberdeen Airport.
Aviation Industry
- We™re sorry, but Heathrow did all it couldAirports everywhere were hit by snow, but we will learn the lessons of December™s disruption...
- Saudi airline to join SkyteamSkyteam has announced its first middle eastern member, Saudi Arabian Airlines, will join in 2012
- AA and JAL announce joint venture start dateAmerican Airlines (AA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) will start their new transpacific joint business on April 1, the airlines have revealed
- AA wins court injunction against SabreA court says Sabre must not hide American Airline's fares on the GDS until it has ruled on a contractual dispute
- Bmi's knuckles rapped for 'schoolboy error'The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that an advert published by Bmi misled customers and breached a number of advertising codes
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