This just in from a pal in the airline business... The latest XL related casualty is the closing this morning of....wait for it...Throb Holi...

....a used airport? But it's not necessarily going cheap. There's news today that the Spanish owned BAA could be forced to sell off ...

Yesterday in the Scotsman there was an article prompted by BA’s planned reduction of 500 flights out of 5,000 over the winter period in resp...

In January 2008 over at my other blog on the airline business I posted this..... Would you believe it easyJet's share price is down. Jus...

Sometimes living in the Borders feels like living a long way from anywhere. When we first moved north from the Sussex sunbelt people would o...

Radio silence for the past few days has been as a result of a trip to Skye. While the south of the UK has had horrible weather much of Scotl...

Now the Tories have come up with a cunning plan to reduce short haul flights. VAT would be levied on fuel for domestic flights for the first...

There's an article in today's Observer entitled 'Heathrow devalues the price of happiness.' It discusses how people's ...

According to the Daily Mail this morning. "Pressure grew today for urgent changes to protect airport check in queues from terrorist bom...

You'd think we were facing a national emergency, a critical meltdown in the transport infrastructure of Great Briatin or worse still - t...

67% of Americans would rather travel in an eco-friendly way, according to a survey done this spring by the online travel company Orbitz. Abo...

T his is a piece of unashamed self-promotion... My friend Chris Tiffney and I written this book and we'd quite like to sell some more c...

Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, has criticised British Airways for failing to serve the whole of the UK an...

We all think the roads are less safe today than they were years ago, but are they? In 2005 there were 3,201 deaths in road traffic accidents...

Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson has said plans to reopen the Waverley line by 2011 were "not achievable" due to a financial s...

.... and it’s even nicer to get there. I had to leave the Borders this morning at 6 a.m. to head to Berwick-upon-Tweed to catch the train to...

The Green Party has been given the leadership of the powerful transport committee after a reshuffle of the Scottish Parliament's structu...

The view from my friend Jeremy and Therea's house in Stroud, a lovely way to start the day. One of the things I find when I stay anywher...

I'm back on the warpath against VisitScotland in today's Scotsman. There was an almost deafening silence from all the parties in the...

In today’s Scotsman VisitScotland are bemoaning the lack of cash for marketing and the fact that it’s causing them to under perform – no0 su...