A new electric-powered sleeper train service will soon allow passengers to travel from the UK to Sweden in less than a day. Swedish operator SJ will launch its EuroNight service between Hamburg and Stockholm on 1 September.more
"Romantic zone. Obligation to kiss" - a plaque with such an inscription is located at a picturesque viewpoint on the Italian island of Capri. Above there is a sign depicting a kissing couple. The plaque was set up by the authorities of the local municipality of Anacapri at the request of a 23-year-old who lives there.more
EU and EEA EFTA citizens are being reminded of their rights when travelling to the UK by the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA). With the summer holiday season in full swing, the IMA is continuing to receive complaints and intelligence from people experiencing difficulties with airline carriers whilst travelling to the UK.
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Police should have the ability to track suspicious rail passengers through analysing bank and oyster card journey data, a chief constable has said.more
British Airways yesterday evening suspended the sale of tickets for flights from London Heathrow airport on domestic and European routes for the next week, on August 15 inclusive. This applies, inter alia, to flights to Poland.more
British Airways has announced that it has suspended the sale of tickets for flights from London Heathrow Airport on domestic and European routes for at least one week. Therefore, this also applies to flights to Poland.more
Another so-called fast track, or fast passage, has been opened by Warsaw Chopin Airport for travellers departing from the port. It allows travellers to reach the security check without queuing, and the service is chargeable, the airport said.more
In August, three new routes by Wizz Air will appear in the flight schedule of Wrocław Airport. Passengers will be able to fly to the Albanian capital Tirana, to the Greek island of Rhodes and to Dubrovnik in Croatia.more
Colchester has about 120,000 residents and it's one of eight towns that were awarded city status during the Queen 's Platinum Jubilee. It was also the capital of England from the fifth to eighth centuries during the Roman occupation of what would become England - and there's plenty to do in the soon-to-be city. more
Hungary's Wizz Air will launch a service from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira from 30 October, the carrier announced. The flights will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays.more
Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more
A strike by German airline Lufthansa's ground handling personnel began this morning, which resulted in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and increased air traffic disruptions during the peak holiday season, Reuters reported.more
The Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA), which monitors the rights of EU and EEA EFTA citizens after the UK left the EU, has concerns that airline carriers are unnecessarily stopping some citizens from boarding flights.more
Lufthansa airline announced today that it will cancel almost all flights scheduled for tomorrow in Munich and Frankfurt am Main due to a warning strike by ground staff. More than 130,000 passengers will be affected by the changes, writes AFP, citing an announcement from the German carrier.more
A Boeing plane with 145 passengers on board had to make an emergency landing at Amsterdam airport yesterday morning after a stork flew into the engine, reports the daily "Algemeen Dagblad".more
Ryanair has warned that passengers could face hikes in air travel of between 30-40% in the next four years, as it condemned a draft decision from the aviation regulator to allow airport charges to increase at Dublin Airport.more
150 passengers who were supposed to depart yesterday evening from the airport in the Dutch Rotterdam to the Turkish capital Ankara, but their flight was postponed to tomorrow, refused to leave the airport, reports RTL Nieuws. People are angry, screams are heard, passengers are threatening to block the entrance and cancel all flights - reports the portal.more
Poles go on vacation as often as last year, but for a shorter period. They also save on food, hence, for example, many questions to the owners of facilities about equipping rooms or apartments with kitchen equipment - according to the data from the Noclegi.pl platform collected at the halfway point of the holidays.more
Yesterday was "driver's hell", there were almost 900 km of traffic jams all over France, and the travel time on some routes was doubled, the France Info portal reported today.more
Sunday is the third day of heavy traffic jams on the British side of the English Channel. While drivers wait several or several hours to enter the ferry or tunnel, the British and French governments are shifting responsibility for this problem.more