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Portugal potential flight disruption: Is this the most stupid thing the Portuguese trade unions could do… Air passengers are being warned flights to and from Portugal could be affected by a strike in protest at austerity measures. Workers in the Portugal’s largest union, the CGTP, are looking to bring the country to a standstill as [...]

In this economic climate you have to wonder if Baggage handlers at Stansted Are on the same planet as the rest of us. Baggage handlers are balloting on strike action that could see a sad pathetic walk out over the Easter bank holiday. The 150 staff, members of the much maligned GMB union, have begun [...]

UK holidays are more expensive than a week in Spain, with all the uncertainties of weather, traffic problems and reliance on public transport. Throw in transport costs and the overall cost of a UK break is expensive. Yet more than two-thirds of UK families plan a UK holiday in 2012, according to consumer research in [...]

Update: Four experts have been assigned by an Italian judge to analyse the Costa Concordia’s data recorder in a pre-trial hearing. Allegra passengers now ashore. Costa cruises are in the news again, after another of their boats the Costa Allegra, has been drifting for the past 12 hours in the Indian ocean with no power. [...]

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