body {font-size: 12pt; font-family: "tahoma"; } The Finnish Consumer Agency will launch a logo to be used on package travel documents and advertisements. The logo was designed closely with the travel industry in Finland and we hope it will be used on most of the package travels sold in Finland ...

Dear FriendsAt the IFTTA congress in Brazil I promised to update members on the Lockerbie legal issues in Scotland. Below, I have summarised the political and constitutional background to the case and in the next few days I will provide the latest update and a clarification on some matters.Please be ...

The Scottish Government has issued an order under the Criminal Procedure Act 1995 that will allow the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) to release some of the details of the review of the al-Megrahi case. The SCCRC cannot reveal all of the details as the law requires the consent ...

Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up 31000 feet above the Scottish border town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. There were 259 people on board, including the crew, all of whom were killed together with 11 people on the ground.Two Libyans were indicted on 13 November 1991: Abdelbaset Ali ...

The applicant company applied for a business permit to run a city tours coach service from fixed stopping points in accordance with a fixed time table. Municipality of Vienna at first instance denied the permit on the grounds that the service would economically endanger a competing company running a similar ...

flyGlobespan was Scotland's biggest airline, based in Edinburgh. It employed about 800 staff and carried more than 1.5 million passengers a year on 12000 flights. On its' collapse, arrangements were made for the repatriation of 1100 passengers stranded abroad. These were passengers that had a flight with flyGlobespan as part ...

Approximately one out of ten flights that took off from airports in Brazil in 2009 was delayed over 30 minutes (limit considered acceptable by the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure - Infraero). Despite the still high average of 11%, the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) said the airline industry in the country ...

To ensure quality and compliance with relevant other laws and regulations and promoting excellence in the hospitality sector, all new hotel, resort, and lodge projects in Kenya require to be licensed first, before commencing any construction, by a newly-inaugurated Hotel and Restaurant Authority.The authority will also embark on a nationwide ...

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from the list of diseases that prevent non-U.S. citizens from entering the country. The new regulation removes required testing for HIV infection from the U.S. immigration medical screening process and eliminates the ...

Belgium took Switzerland to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The dispute concerning the interpretation and application of the Lugano Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters has arisen out of the pursuit of parallel judicial proceedings in Belgium and Switzerland in ...

In a 13-0-1 vote the UN Security Council opted for sanctions aganinst Eritrea until such time that the country "ceases arming, training, and equipping armed groups and their members including al-Shabab." Regime leaders and collaborating businesses are now also subject to travel bans, and a freeze of assets is reportedly ...

San Francisco Bay's famous herd of sea lions has mysteriously begun vanishing as quickly and inexplicably as they appeared, leaving behind throngs of disappointed tourists and puzzled marine biologists. Marine experts in the region speculate that the sea lions came in droves because of an abundance of food.Source: eTurboNews; find ...

The parliamentary hearing of the Commissioner-Designate for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli, is to take place on 14 January at 13.00hrs under the lead of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, with MEPs from the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Agriculture and Rural Development ...

USA1a.You can find the list of prohibited items published by the TSA which applies to flights originating within the USA (3/2009):List USA1b.The TSA also provides rules for liquids, the so called '3-1-1 for Carry-Ons':3-1-1 Carry-OnsEU2a.Code word: "Hermeticism" In the EU originally Regulation 2320/2002/EC on common rules in the field of ...

1.The full 'Timetable for the Hearings of the Commissioners designate', which will start on January 11th and last until 19th can be found here:Timetable EP2.The new Commission 'Barroso II' and the respective responsibilities can be found here (in all official languages):New Team3.Further information about the hearings can be found here:Hearings4.once ...

Due to a new directive of the Transportation Security Administration airline passengers flying to the U.S. from 14 countries with terrorism problems will face extra checkpoint screening at overseas airports. The countries include Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Somalia and Yemen as well as Cuba, Iran, ...

A number of former affiliates filed a third version of their complaint against YTB in the U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois. The former YTB referring travel agents (RTAs) have charged they were induced to join an illegal pyramid scheme. They claim current and former affiliates have suffered damages of ...

China has unveiled what it says is the world's fastest rail link in the world, a train connecting the cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan, with an average speed of 217 miles per hour. The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 km journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous ...

A group of major Internet travel firms as well as the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) and the U.S. Tour Operators Association (USTOA) filed a law suit against New York City to stop the extension of a hotel tax on their clients. They allege that the law extending the ...

Indian government in Delhi introduced rules barring tourists from returning to the country within two months of any visit. Both, U.K. and the US have lodged a diplomatic protest.Source: eTurboNews; find article here>>.

Under a new rule the U.S. Department of Transportation will limit airline tarmac delays to three hours after which U.S. airlines must allow passengers to deplane. Airlines also must provide adequate food and water for passengers within two hours of a plane being delayed on a tarmac and maintain operable ...

Plaintiff, an Austrian timesharing association, sued a German member for annual maintenance fees which were due according to the bylaws. Courts of first and second instance (AG Oranienburg/Brandenburgisches OLG) dismissed the claim because of lacking international jurisdiction of German courts.Upon further appeal of plaintiff, BGH held that membership in a ...

Plaintiffs had booked a flight from Frankfurt to the Maldives with a stopover in the United Arab Emirates. When they landed in the Emirates the flight was discontinued and they were re-routed and arrived at the Maldives with a delay of more than 30 hrs. The claimed for compensation under ...

The UK High Court has blocked a 12-day Christmas walkout by British Airways cabin crew after ruling that the strike ballot was illegal. The high court granted BA's request for an injunction against the strike after around 900 cabin crew were balloted despite taking voluntary redundancy. Mrs Justice Cox ruled ...

The demise of Scottish carrier Flyglobespan leaves about 4,000 passengers stranded abroad. Around 1,300 people were due to fly tomorrow. The accounting firm brought in to take control of the failed airline, told passengers to stay at home and warned that the Civil Aviation Authority was only responsible for financially ...

"Live the Deal", an innovative, global campaign to help travel companies and destinations respond to Climate Change, reduce their carbon footprint and move to the Green Economy, was launched this week during the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Announcing the new initiative, long time green tourism campaigner Geoffrey Lipman UNWTO Assistant Secretary-General ...

According to the ITB World Travel Trends Report, commissioned by the world's leading travel trade show and compiled by the consultancy IPK International, a short- to mid-term rise in the price of airline tickets is to be expected worldwide. The ITB World Travel Trends Report states that in order to ...

The six-month hurricane season that ended Nov. 30 saw only nine named storms formed in the Atlantic and for the first time in three years, no hurricane struck the U.S. mainland or a Caribbean island.Source: Travel Weekly; find article here>>.

British Airways last month published an unusually low fare from the United States to India. The base was $40 round trip. Although BA doesn't include its $370 fuel surcharge in that amount but passes it on as a "tax" rather than as part of the ticket price, and the actual ...

Mr. F had booked a package tour to Morocco for himself, his wife and his eight year old son. At the time of booking he did not ask for entry requirements, only leafed through the pages of the tour organiser's brochure without looking for the respective information and didn't take ...