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New East Coast Mainline franchise confirmed
The Department for Transport today confirmed (10 December 2014) it has officially signed the East Coast rail franchise contract with Inter City Railways, a venture between Stagecoach and Virgin.
EMBARGO: Record-breaking Christmas investment programme to deliver bigger, better railway in London and South East
Millions of passengers are set to benefit from the biggest Christmas and New Year investment programme ever carried out on Britain's rail network including many locations around London.
Half of Heathrow's busiest airlines miss landing noise reduction targets
Half of the busiest 50 airlines at Heathrow are missing landing noise targets, the airport revealed today.
New 68-acre logistics centre project launched by Port of Felixstowe to combat rivals
Bosses at Britains biggest container port have announced the development of a huge new 68-acre project to provide much-needed warehousing space to compete with its rivals.
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The Herald
- Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigationCRASH investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that has been brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar.
London Evening Standard
- London should keep £1bn raised in tax from its airports, say campaigners London should be able to keep to the £1 billion “flying tax” revenues raised at the capital’s airports, a campaign group said today.
- Half of Heathrow's busiest airlines miss landing noise reduction targets Half of the busiest 50 airlines at Heathrow are missing landing noise targets, the airport revealed today.
Manchester Evening News
- Manchester Airport aiming to DOUBLE passenger numbers by 2036 Andrew Cowan, chief operating officer for Manchester Airports Group, is also hoping to add new routes to both America and China
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
- Scared of flying? EasyJet set to launch Fearless Flyer course in NewcastleNewcastle's biggest airline will begin running its
Other Regional Press
- New North-South Wales air service branded 'pointless and costly' THE first flight of a new service linking North and South Wales will leave from Cardiff today.
Aviation Industry
- Event review: flights paths: where next?Last week we held our annual seminar which focused this year on the recent flight path trials as part of the national Future Airspace Strategy. Following a presentation by the CAA, discussion focused on how the process could be better managed.
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