Articles By: Doug Smith

Green Car Rental Facility for Sea-Tac

Green Car Rental Facility for Sea-Tac

0 May 14, 2012 9:32 am

Last week, the inaugural ribbon was cut for the Rental Car Facility (RCF) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is due to open on May 17. The project is five stories and 2.1 million square feet, and it’s due to be [...]

TUI Travel Reports First Half Loss

TUI Travel Reports First Half Loss

0 May 9, 2012 9:31 am

On Tuesday, tour operator TUI Travel reported a wider loss for the first half of its financial year. It’s blaming the increased loss on lower demand for North African destinations than expected and floods in Thailand. However, overall trading for [...]

UK Border Agency Visa System Crashes

UK Border Agency Visa System Crashes

0 May 4, 2012 10:15 am

On Thursday, the visa computer system at the UK Border Agency crashed, and hundreds of people in line at its Croydon public enquiry office were told to go home since the computer system couldn’t handle applications for the renewal or [...]

Starwood Plans Iraq Hotel Expansion

Starwood Plans Iraq Hotel Expansion

May 1, 2012 11:44 am

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide has signed a deal with BCD Co. for the management of a new Sheraton hotel in Kurdistan Autonomous Region capital Erbil, which is located in the north of Iraq. The new Sheraton Erbil Hotel will [...]

Dollar Thrifty Issues 1Q Guidance

Dollar Thrifty Issues 1Q Guidance

April 27, 2012 10:16 am

Earlier this week, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group issued a preliminary guidance on the results it expects for its first quarter of the year. The company gave an update on corporate adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and [...]

Star Princess Passed Stranded Boat

Star Princess Passed Stranded Boat

April 24, 2012 11:44 am

Adrian Vásquez (18), the only survivor of three fishermen who were lost at sea, has revealed how he tried to flag down the Star Princess cruise ship as it passed his drifting boat, only to helplessly watch as it sailed [...]

OFT Sends McGill’s Merger to CC

OFT Sends McGill’s Merger to CC

April 20, 2012 10:20 am

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recently referred the multi-million pound merger of McGill’s Buses and Arriva Scotland West to the Competition Commission. McGill’s Buses, which operates nearly 200 buses on routes in East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire, arranged the [...]

Airlines Refuse Palestinian Activists

Airlines Refuse Palestinian Activists

April 17, 2012 11:43 am

Members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a pro-Palestinian campaign group, have been refused travel to Israel from Manchester Airport. Jet2 says that officials from Israel informed it that 13 people booked on a flight from the UK to their [...]

Johnson Bans Anti-gay Bus Ads

Johnson Bans Anti-gay Bus Ads

April 13, 2012 10:17 am

London Mayor Boris Johnson has intervened in a Christian ad campaign, keeping it from promoting the idea that gay people can be converted into being straight. He ordered the adverts to be pulled just days before posters were due to [...]

Yemen Airport Reopens after Protest

Yemen Airport Reopens after Protest

April 10, 2012 11:31 am

Sana’a International Airport, the main airport in Yemen, reopened on Sunday following a forced closure by tribesmen and officers loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. They were protesting the sacking of the airforce commander, Saleh’s half-brother. The one-day incident, [...]