Travel News for Flyers in March 2008

• More staff drafted in to clear Heathrow Terminal 5 luggage backlog (30/03/08)
• Mobile phones given the go ahead on flights (28/03/08)
• Gatwick Airport allows more than one bag through security (28/03/08)
• Heathrow Terminal 5 spirals into chaos on its first day (27/03/08)
• Eos Airlines offers Stansted to Newark service (27/03/08)
• British Airways continues Gatwick expansion despite new Terminal in Heathrow (26/03/08)
• UK Government plane to be scrapped so no more Blair Force One (26/03/08)
• Heathrow Terminal 5 fingerprint plans on hold (26/03/08)
• Swiss cheap flights with Flybaboo (25/03/08)
• British Airways passengers urged to check Terminal 5 flights (22/03/08)
• bmibaby flight sale with all UK flights for 6 pounds (21/03/08)
• Wizzair provides alternatives for discontinued centralwings flights (21/03/08)
• Ryanair starts Marseille to Paris and Frankfurt to Berlin flights (20/03/08)
• Ryanair announce new Shannon to Berlin route ands (20/03/08)
• easyjet starts Luton to Jersey and Luton to Pisa routes (20/03/08)
• Volareweb launches 15 new routes from Milan (18/03/08)
• London to Tel Aviv in Israel flights started with bmi (18/03/08)
• British Airways prepares to service first A380 landing at Heathrow (17/03/08)
• Alitalia bought by Air France KLM (17/03/08)
• Free speedy boarding pass and discount on easyJet flights (17/03/08)
• Ryanair announces flights from 1 pence (16/03/08)
• bmibaby announces several new routes (16/03/08)
• America Airlines leaves Gatwick and passengers take note of new airport details (16/03/08)
• Aer Lingus says increased airport charges are not a problem (15/03/08)
• Coventry Airport receives first flight from Gdansk (15/03/08)
• The week in brief to 14th March 2008 (14/03/08)
• Passengers buy 1 million pounds of Monarch tickets using Paypal (13/03/08)
• Humberside lifts one bag restriction on flights (13/03/08)
• Robin Hood Airport gets more popular (13/03/08)
• easyJet launch membership card for fast boarding (12/03/08)
• Loganair launches new Dundee routes (12/03/08)
• Plans to add second runway at Stansted submitted by BAA (11/03/08)
• Airlines predict bad 12 months as oil prices rise and down go their profits (11/03/08)
• BAA raises airport landing costs and ticket prices to rise soon (11/03/08)
• Vueling carries more passengers within Spain as popularity grows and prices drop (9/03/08)
• Daily flights from Doha to Houston with Qatar Airways (9/03/08)
• Birmingham Airport has best ever February (8/03/08)
• Birmingham to Dundee new route launched by Flybe (7/03/08)
• Singapore to USA with business class only flights from Singapore Airlines (7/03/08)
• Ryanair grows 20 percent in one year (7/03/08)
• British Airways gives February review (6/03/08)
• Sterling launch Aalborg to Paris flights (5/03/08)
• Eastern Airways launches new routes from Newcastle (4/03/08)
• Madness at Heathrow over landing slots (4/03/08)
• New Beijing airport terminal opens in preparation for Olympic games in August (3/03/08)
• More A380s will be flying in the sky soon (3/03/08)
• Silverjet business class only flights to New York and Dubai (3/03/08)
• American Airlines moves all flights from Gatwick to Heathrow (1/03/08)