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Sunday, 30 August 2015

Mail Online

• Family arrived at Birmingham Airport to find 'ghost Monarch Airlines flight' didn't exist The Hall family (pictured) arrived at Birmingham Airport on July 25, for a 10-day getaway to Faro, Portugal - with booking confirmation in hand - only to be told that their flight didn't exist.
• Cowboy airport parking companies at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester exposed Parking firms operating out of Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester airports have been caught by the Mail on Sunday leaving vehicles next to strip clubs and mud-strewn fields and on crime-ridden streets.

London Evening Standard

• EasyJet flight diverted after popped champagne cork causes oxygen masks to drop from ceilingAn easyJet flight from London to Turkey was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a popped champagne cork reportedly caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling

Other News Sources

• Luton airport bosses want to 'simplify' noise rules they say unfairly target quiet planes LUTON Airport has submitted an application to 'simplify' noise limits it says will target quieter planes during its expansion.
• Westminster Watch: Davies under fire over Heathrow recommendationPoor old Sir Howard Davies. He spends two and a half years of his life wading through expansion proposals, appraisal frameworks, consultation responses and so on to produce emerging thinking documents, an interim report and a final 344-page report… And gets told not only that his analysis is flawed, but that his integrity is, too.