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The British Airports Authority (BAA), the owner and operator of seven airports in the United Kingdom and also the operator of several other airports worldwide, may be fined up to £9 million a year if it does not improve customer service levels at London’s Stansted Airport.

All flights in and out of Newquay Cornwall Airport in Cornwall, the United Kingdom, have been cancelled for three weeks from November 30, 2008, because of a problem over air traffic support.

AirAsia X, the long-haul budget airline based in Malaysia, will start services between Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and London’s Stansted Airport at a price as low as £99 one way.

The government of the United Kingdom has decided to raise the tax for flying out of British airports by at least 10% and, in some cases, the tax will double by 2010 with a view to reducing emissions from aviation.

The government of the United Kingdom has agreed to include the aviation and shipping sectors in its ambitious climate change Bill, a law that aims to set targets to cut emissions of greenhouse-gases.

Ryanair accuses fuel supplier Air BP of profiteering, urges UK’s economic regulator to probe increased fuel costs

The Conservative party in the United Kingdom has attracted widespread criticism for saying that, if elected to power, the party would scrap the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport and instead build a high-speed train link.

NIIT Technologies Limited, the leading software company based in India, has signed a multi-million pound, three-year deal outsourcing deal with its existing client British Airways.

Close on the heels of the United Kingdom-based travel operator XL Leisure Group closing shop, another British holiday firm, K&S Holidays, has collapsed, putting the air travel industry in further trouble.

British Airways, the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and the leading trans-Atlantic airline of Europe, has said that its first-quarter earnings had dropped in the period from April to June 2008.

A business group has recommended that the British Aviation Authority (BAA), the owner of London’s Heathrow airport, scrap about 5,000 flights a year in order to relieve congestion.

In giving a quirky dimension to the fallout of the phenomenal costs of oil, the United States has threatened to take legal action against the United Kingdom over a planned increase in airline taxes.

Silverjet, the all-business class airline based in the United Kingdom, has suspended all operations after failing to secure new funding.

The British government’s independent watchdog on sustainable development has asked that the government of the United Kingdom to “completely rethink” its aviation policy and shelve plans to expand Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport.