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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

BBC News

• Stagecoach plans bus orders worth £80mThe Perth-based group says 350
• Manchester Airport: 13,000 passengers delayed by fuel problemsOne couple hit by chaos at Manchester Airport had to swap a break in Rome for a few days in Whitby.
• Ryanair expects to win in airline 'fare wars'Europe's biggest discount airline says fares are
• Carmaker Ford announces 7,000 job cutsThe US car giant says it will shed 10% of its salaried workforce by the end of August to cut costs.
• Electric cars still need to win over UK driversOnly one in four people would consider buying a fully electric car in the next five years, a study says.

ITV News

• Airport now first in British Isles to use Remote Tower technologyJersey Airport is now the first in the British Isles to manage air traffic using digital Remote Tower technology.

The Guardian

• National Audit Office questions value of Stonehenge tunnelReport by watchdog casts doubt on Highways England figures for £2bn project

The Independent

• Climate crisis: Satellites to monitor air pollution generated by every power station in the world'Too many power companies worldwide currently shroud their pollution in secrecy… We are about to lift that veil', says boss of firm backed by Google
• Ford announces 7,000 job cuts globally by end of AugustCar maker slashes workforce in bid to make $600m of savings

Times Online

• Rising costs drag down Ryanair’s fortunes [Subscription]Ryanair has suffered its worst reverse on record, with profits plunging by nearly 40 per cent last year and with a warning of worse to come.
• Opponents of HS2 lack belief in Britain’s ability to deliver [Subscription]read the piece by David Davis for Red Box last week on HS2 and I was startled by his lack of belief in Britain’s ability to deliver it. We are, after all, the country that invented the idea of trains on tracks. The country whose engineers created Mallard and St Pancras Station. And then moved on to build Concorde, invent the world wide web and design the chips that power our iPhones and Android handsets.
• Jaguar Land Rover suffers £3.6bn loss amid sinking sales [Subscript-on]Jaguar Land Rover has crashed to a £3.65 billion full-year loss as it pays the price of a collapse in sales in China, its most important market, and counts the cost of a redundancy programme in which it is cutting the workforce by 6,000 people, or 15 per cent.
• Supermarkets increase fuel price almost daily [Subscription]Britain’s big supermarkets have increased the price of petrol almost every day for the past three months leading to concerns that motorists are being ripped off.
• Pollution in Edinburgh puts congestion levy back on the agenda [subscription]Concerns over air quality have raised the prospect of introducing congestion charging in Edinburgh, 14 years after the move was rejected in a referendum.

City AM

• Time you'll never get back: Passengers lost record 4m hours to train delays last yearRail passengers lost a record of four million hours to train delays last year, the worst since records began, a consumer watchdog has found.
• Ford announces 7,000 job cuts as US car maker moves up a gear in restructuring planFord is to cut around one-tenth of its global salaried workforce by the end of August as part of a major global restructuring plan.

Sky News

• Ford axing 7,000 jobs including hundreds in UKCar giant Ford has announced that it is cutting 7,000 white collar jobs worldwide, with up to 550 in the UK expected to be among the positions axed.

Edinburgh Evening News

• Edinburgh’s bus wars escalate with new express routes from West LothianLOTHIAN buses has announced new express services between West Lothian and Edinburgh in an escalation of the “bus wars” the company is fighting with rivals FirstBus.

London Evening Standard

• Council rolls out £4.5m 'smart' cameras to monitor toxic air and trigger vehicle finesScores of “smart” traffic cameras capable of monitoring air pollution and catching “banned” lorries are to be rolled out in Islington to fight toxic air.
• New train timetable changes: UK commuters hit by delays on key London route on start of new summer scheduleTens of thousands of mainline rail commuters suffered delays today as the introduction of a new summer timetable was hit by a track failure on a key London route.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Protesters sign petition to save 'essential' bus service scrapped due to 'low passenger numbers'Protesters in the Coalfield area have called for Go North East to reverse plans to axe the 38 bus service between Castletown and Chester-le-Street
• Metro bosses issue warning to graffiti vandals after worker is sprayed in the face with paintA man, who broke his ankle, was arrested as he was fleeing from security guards at a train depot in Gosforth - now a warning is being sent out about the dangers of trespassing on the network

Sheffield Star

• Yorkshire leaders call for clear commitment from Government over HS2Regional leaders in Yorkshire and other parts of northern England have written to Elizabeth Truss to ask for the Government’s clear commitment to fully deliver the second phase of high-speed rail plans.

Yorkshire Post

• Cancelling HS2 could cut Yorkshire adrift from progress - The Yorkshire Post saysWith increasing momentum behind anti-HS2 campaigners in recent weeks as the likes of former Brexit Secretary David Davis joined the calls for the high-speed rail project to be scrapped, it is little surprise northern leaders have united in a bid to keep the infrastructure project on a track.

Other Regional Press

• Petition calls for Camberley to Heathrow Airport bus service to combat global warmingDenis Fuller says it is not currently practically possible to get to Heathrow Airport from Camberley by public transport

New Civil Engineer

• London City Airport in talks with TfL about Crossrail stationLondon City Airport bosses are in talks with Transport for London (TfL) about building a Crossrail station at the airport.

Aviation Industry

• Finnair, Juneyao Air to codeshare on Finland, China routesFinland flag carrier Finnair and Shanghai-based Juneyao Air have signed a codeshare agreement, which becomes effective June 28. read more
• American Airlines urged to offer ‘living wage’ to Envoy agentsA group of US Democratic senators are calling on American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker to provide “livable, family-sustaining wagesâ€� to passenger service agents at American-owned regional subsidiary Envoy Air. read more
• DFW, American Airlines to build new terminal, adding up to 24 gates Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport and American Airlines are teaming up to develop a sixth terminal at the American hub that could add as many as 24 gates. read more
• Jersey Airport receives remote tower operations approvalJersey Airport in the Channel Islands became the first British airport to receive approval for operational use of remote tower technology to manage commercial aircraft movements, the airport said May 20. read more

Other News Sources

• First Glasgow celebrates 125 years of transport in the city with retro bus looksThey are giving three of their double decker fleet a makeover to turn them back to heritage colours of the 60's, 70's and 80's
• New chief executive joins Leeds Bradford AirportA new chief executive has been appointed at Leeds Bradford Airport, joining from its private equity owner, to replace the outgoing Davie Laws.