Budget airline Ryanair has ramped up the charges passengers face for carrying a piece of checked luggage onto the aircraft by £5 – but only for the summer.
You’ll now be charged £20 each way for taking on luggage lighter than 15kg, up from £15, while bags weighing between 15kg and 20kg will set you back £30 each way, up from £25. In a brazen display of profiteering, the charges will only apply from June until September 21st – in other words, the peak travel times for summer holidays.
The airline has justified this, saying that it will encourage passengers to travel without hold baggage, highlighting that three quarters of passengers do so already. That’s all well and good, but personally I don’t fancy my chances of getting enough clothing for a fortnight in Spain into my hand luggage.
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Friday, 10 June 2011
Bend it like the Spanish
A flexible thief squeezed into a large suitcase and then emerged to plunder valuables from other bags while inside the luggage compartment of a Spanish airport bus, police say.
The thief had a partner who would buy a bus ticket and place the suitcase in a bus from Girona airport to Barcelona in northeastern Spain, police said in a statement late Tuesday.
"Once the trip began, he would get out of the suitcase, search for valuable objects and hide them in a smaller bag he carried with him," regional Catalan police said.
The thief would then get back into the suitcase, to be reclaimed by his partner at the end of the 90-minute trip.
Alerted by the repeated thefts, police inspected a suspicious bag on the bus on June 3 and opened it up. "They saw there was a man doubled up almost like a contortionist," the statement said.
The man had a mobile phone, a small bag and a sharp object to open zips and locks, police said. Officers boarded the bus and detained the man who had left the suitcase in the luggage compartment.
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The thief had a partner who would buy a bus ticket and place the suitcase in a bus from Girona airport to Barcelona in northeastern Spain, police said in a statement late Tuesday.
"Once the trip began, he would get out of the suitcase, search for valuable objects and hide them in a smaller bag he carried with him," regional Catalan police said.
The thief would then get back into the suitcase, to be reclaimed by his partner at the end of the 90-minute trip.
Alerted by the repeated thefts, police inspected a suspicious bag on the bus on June 3 and opened it up. "They saw there was a man doubled up almost like a contortionist," the statement said.
The man had a mobile phone, a small bag and a sharp object to open zips and locks, police said. Officers boarded the bus and detained the man who had left the suitcase in the luggage compartment.
IMI Team
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Singapore Airlines open to offers for Virgin stake
Singapore Airlines said today it is open to any offers for its 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic, but would not comment if any bidders have approached it to buy the stake.
The airlines chief executive, Goh Choon Phong, told reporters: ‘I think we have been quite open. We have stated that we are open if somebody is interested in the 49 percent stake in Virgin, they can make an offer and we will evaluate it and make decision based on that.’
So if you fancy owning nearly half of Vigin Airlines, get your wallets out.
Don't forget to book your parking now for your summer holidays, spaces are going fast!!
IMI Team
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The airlines chief executive, Goh Choon Phong, told reporters: ‘I think we have been quite open. We have stated that we are open if somebody is interested in the 49 percent stake in Virgin, they can make an offer and we will evaluate it and make decision based on that.’
So if you fancy owning nearly half of Vigin Airlines, get your wallets out.
Don't forget to book your parking now for your summer holidays, spaces are going fast!!
IMI Team
+844 474 8393
info@imiparking.co.uk
www.imiparking.co.uk
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