London News
London airports coping with post-Olympic rush
As thousands of Olympic athletes leave London for the journey home Heathrow airport has set up a special terminal to deal with check-in and baggage requirements. Over 10,000 athletes and Olympic offic...
Paris News
Easyjet threatens French strike
EasyJet's French-based pilots are threatening to strike on 15, 17 and 19 August, the height of the mid-summer holiday season. The industrial action is over pay and bonuses and will affect about 250 st...
Vienna News
Vienna extends resident parking zones
Residents’ parking is to be extended in Vienna to the 12th (Meidling), 14th (Penzing), 15th (Rudolfsheim and Fünfhaus), 16th and 17th (Hernals) districts in October.
Residents in the 14t...
Madrid News
International Airlines Group (IAG), the holding company created out of the merger of Iberia and British Airways, is expected to announce redundancies at Iberia after the company clocked up a €263...
Jersey News
Design for Jersey's new bus service
People living in the island of Jersey are being asked to choose which design they prefer to decorate the buses of the company that will start running the island-wide public transport service next year...
Paris News
France sticks to November for breathalyser date
All vehicles in France must be equipped with a breathalyser by 1 November. At present there are shortages in supermarkets and pharmacies so the date has been extended from 1 July. There are no plans t...
Vienna News
Austrian Airlines to invest in quality
Austrian Airlines has announced plans to remodel ten of its long-haul planes to give passengers a better quality service.
Business class is to be equipped with beds, more comfortable seating arrang...
Berlin News
Berlin’s S-Bahn looks for operators
Berlin is opening up its local train service to foreign competition in a move to keep down costs and put an end to the need for state and city subsidies. It is hoping that other European and also Asia...
London News
London finalises Olympic Route Network
London’s special network of high priority roads for the Olympic Games starts operating on Wednesday 25 July, two days before the Games open.
A workforce of about 2,000 is putting the final to...
Vienna News
Vienna reserves on-street parking for residents
Special on-street parking areas for cars of residents are now available in the Vienna centre-city districts of Mariahilf, Neubau and Josefstadt.
The special parking bays are reserved both for resid...
Paris News
French Railways to launch bus service
SNCF, France’s rail service, is launching a bus service to try to encourage people to travel long distances by public transport instead of by car. It will also provide a cheap alternative to the...
London News
London bus drivers went on a 24-hour strike on 22 June in protest about the lack of an agreement over payment of a bonus during the Olympic Games, which start on 27 July. The union is asking for a &po...
Madrid News
Cycling deaths in Spain increase
Deaths from bicycle accidents in Spain rose 20 per cent in 2010 over the previous year to total 67. In the same year there were 564 serious injuries from bicycle accidents.
This ranks Spain as the...
Amsterdam News
Road deaths down in Netherlands
Road deaths and traffic jams are down in the Netherlands according to figures from the ministry of transport. In 2011 deaths fell from 81 to 67 in 2011. The Netherlands has a population of 16.6 millio...
Barcelona News
Barcelona gets Nissan contract
Nissan has announced that Barcelona has won the contract to build its new all-electric van at the company’s Zona Franca plant, close to the city’s port and airport. Assembly of the e-NV200...
Madrid News
Spain’s drivers get good driving points
Good drivers in Spain are to be awarded an extra point on their licences if they have not lost any points since 2006 when the scheme first came into force.
It is estimated that about 16 million dri...
Oxford News
Oxford is to become one of the main cities for electrical-powered cars in the UK. The ministry of transport has recently announced a £320,000 project to supply the city with 64 electrical charge...
Berlin News
Brandenburg airport delayed to 2013
With less than a month to go before its inauguration the opening of Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport had been postponed from 3 June until March 2013. Regulators are not satisfied with the partia...
Barcelona News
Barcelona has won the award for the best airport in southern Europe for the second year running. The Skytrax World Airport Award is based on surveys from 11 million passengers worldwide, covering opin...
Madrid News
Take the Metro arrests in Madrid
Three people protesting rises in the fares of Madrid metro price have been arrested and face fines from
