Budget airline says change will take effect from November and will give passengers more time to get through airports
Ryanair will close airport check-in desks 20 minutes earlier to avoid passengers missing flights, it has announced, amid concern over border queues in Europe.
The budget airline, which carries 200 million passengers annually, will require all passengers dropping bags or checking in at the airport to do so one hour before take-off rather than the current 40-minute deadline.
FAA investigates event of one jet flying too close to another, though both crews responded to alerts and landed safely
The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it was investigating a close call at New York’s John F Kennedy international airport between two passenger jets.
“The crew of Republic Airways Flight 4464 performed a go-around at John F Kennedy International Airport after missing the intended approach path and flying too close to Jazz Aviation Flight 554, which was cleared to land on a parallel runway. Both flight crews responded to onboard alerts,” the FAA said in a statement about the Monday incident.
Michael Thorn thought he’d suffered enough after his Uber passenger punched him in the head, sending him to hospital. But then the rideshare platform deactivated his account.
“It’s even worse than getting belted,” Thorn said.
‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank
Europe’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.
Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows.
Regions are main consumers of Kamaz products in this market and the government provides subsidies for the procurement of passenger transport within the framework of the fleet upgrade program, where the target of 85% of the renewal is set for each region, Deputy CEO of the Russian truck maker Anton Saraikin noted
Even the market decline by a factor of two compared to the abnormally high year of 2023 to 60,000 units conforms to levels before the crisis, Deputy CEO of the Russian truck maker Anton Saraikin said
Air Canada has announced a temporary suspension of flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York’s John F Kennedy airport, citing rising fuel prices.
The move comes amid growing concerns that airlines worldwide may scale back services as aviation fuel costs climb in the wake of the US and Israel’s ongoing war with Iran, which entered a fragile ceasefire earlier in April. Although Iran announced on Friday that the strait of Hormuz had reopened, helping ease oil prices, fuel costs remain significantly elevated after weeks of disruption.
Hong Kong police are searching for a man believed to have snatched mobile phones from two MTR commuters moments before the train doors closed.
Lai King MTR station. Photo: Wikicommons.
Police said they received a report at 8.24pm on Thursday from a woman, surnamed Tung, who said her phone was stolen at Lai King MTR station.
Less than 10 minutes later, they received a second report from another woman, surnamed Wong at Mei Foo MTR station, also saying that somebody had grabbed her phone.
The suspect is a man in his 30s with long hair, who was wearing a navy top and shorts at the time of the suspected offences, police said.
According to local media, in the first incident, the woman got on a Tsuen Wan Line train at Lai King MTR station when, just as the doors were closing, a man snatched her OPPO FIND X9 phone and ran out to the platform.
The MTR Corporation logo. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
The woman got off at the next stop, Mei Foo, where she sought help from station staff.
In the second incident, another woman, Wong, had her iPhone 14 snatched inside the train when it stopped at Mei Foo MTR station. Just before the doors closed, the suspect took her phone and ran out of the train.
Police said the phone in the first incident was worth around HK$4,000, while the phone in the second was worth around HK$9,000.
Nobody was injured in the incidents.
The cases were classified as robberies and are being investigated by officers in the police’s Sham Shui Po division.
Electric bus, train and light rail services in New South Wales will run on fully renewable energy from next year under a new $1.9bn deal, the state government says.
The Minns government on Friday announced it had signed a contract with Snowy Energy to bring all public transport operations in the state under a single renewable energy agreement for the first time. The seven-year deal comes into effect from July 2027 and will last until 2034.
Australia’s two biggest car-share companies, GoGet and Flexicar, have removed fuel cards from their Melbourne vehicles after a spate of break-ins and thefts that a senior GoGet executive described as “one of the dumbest crimes ever”.
The change will force users of share cars to pay for fuel themselves before seeking reimbursement, leaving them temporarily out of pocket amid record-high fuel prices caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.
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