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Eurostar records passenger and sales revenue growth for first quarter of 2018
The number of passengers using Eurostar swelled to 2.36m in the first quarter of this year, despite the high-speed passenger service grappling with widespread strikes across France.
Rollout of new Elizabeth Line trains stalls on Heathrow branch due to train signalling troubles
The rollout of new Elizabeth Line trains on the Heathrow branch of the Crossrail route has been delayed because testing them with the new signalling system has been complex, and taken longer than expected.
Commuters furious as extra seats on rush-hour trains delayed until 2020
Rail commuters paying up to £4,000 a year for season tickets are furious after learning they must wait until 2020 for 4,000 extra seats on crowded peak-time trains.
Campaigners raise night flights and noise nightmare concerns over Stansted expansion plans
The owners of Stansted Airport have stressed that they are not seeking any change to current night flight limits at the site, after campaigners claimed they were trying to overturn the current legal conditions.
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
BBC News
- Main terminal of Glasgow Airport evacuated after kitchen fireSmoke coming from a dishwasher in a catering area prompted the alert at Glasgow Airport.
Financial Times
- United Continental shares rise after-hours as results top forecasts
- Passenger dies after engine fails on Southwest flightBoeing 737 service from New York to Dallas forced to make emergency landing
The Telegraph
Times Online
- Air passenger dies as engine blast shatters jet’s window [Subscription]A woman was killed after shrapnel from an exploded engine shattered a window on an airliner that was travelling at about 32,000ft between New York and Dallas.
City AM
- The hyperloop train is leaving the station – and the UK must be on itBritain can reasonably claim to have invented the railway. Stephenson’s Rocket represented the pinnacle of British industrial-era innovation.
Mail Online
- BA baggage handlers smuggled £16million of cocaine through Heathrow Ringleader Joysen Jhurry, 41, (pictured) moved drug-laden suitcases flown in from Brazil from the international arrivals carousel to the domestic arrivals hall to avoid security checks.
The Mirror
- 'Hero' pilot calmly landed Southwest Airlines flight despite explosion at 32,000ft and 'passenger sucked through window' Tammie Jo Shults was reportedly one of the first US Navy female fighter pilots and safely brought flight 1380 into land in Philadelphia after the midair tragedy
- Woman passenger dies after being 'sucked through plane window' in mid-flight emergency at 32,000ft Depressurisation is believed to have caused the female passenger to be partially sucked through window before others intervened on Southwest Airlines flight 1380
London Evening Standard
- Southwest Airlines flight horror: Mother-of-two Jennifer Riordan killed as she is almost sucked out of plane window when engine explodesA woman killed after she was almost sucked out of a Southwest Airlines flight window following an explosion mid-air has been named.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Campaigners raise night flights and noise nightmare concerns over Stansted expansion plansThe owners of Stansted Airport have stressed that they are not seeking any change to current night flight limits at the site, after campaigners claimed they were trying to overturn the current legal conditions.
Aviation Industry
- Lufthansa’s bid for Alitalia called ‘most promising’ Lufthansa’s bid for Alitalia has emerged as the frontrunner as its fate still remains unclear after nearly a year since the Italian flag carrier filed for bankruptcy. read more
- Air France offers ‘growth pact’ pay proposal in bid to end strikesAir France has presented a new “growth pact†pay proposal to unions in a bid to put an end to a series of strikes that has led to flight cancellations and disruption. read more
- Air New Zealand reshuffles widebody fleet as 787 restrictions take holdAir New Zealand will reshuffle its widebody fleet and seek more leased aircraft as it copes with new operational restrictions for the Boeing 787s used on long-haul routes. read more
- One dead after Southwest 737 mid-air engine failureA Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport on April 17 after an apparent engine failure that caused one fatality. read more
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