The study concludes that the rail link could deliver strong economic returns under both two-runway and three-runway expansion scenarios at Heathrow Airport, indicating its potential impact on regional connectivity.
Heathrow's annual sustainability report summarizing the year 2025 describes climate change as "an existential threat to aviation, to the planet and to us all personally." The report touts a few areas of interest, including adding zero-emission buses to the airport's fleet and reducing overall waste at Heathrow by 3%. The report also points to Heathrow using more sustainable jet fuel, with 3.1% of the flights taking off from the airport making use of such materials.
Of the UK's top 10 datacentre projects, only one - at East Havering in Essex, with projected capacity of more than 600MW - is in the London area. The remainder, totalling just under 4GW, are spread north from Oxfordshire, to Lincolnshire, North Wales, the north east and Scotland, most being sites that can tap into offshore wind or nuclear power.
This funding will replace polluting diesel buses with new electric vehicles that will make a real difference to people's daily lives, better connecting them to work, to healthcare and to opportunity, whilst cleaning up the air we all breathe.
The module is part of the National Aviation Passenger Allocation Model, or NAPAM, which forecasts passenger airport choices. It consists of about 10,000 lines of code written in a Microsoft .NET C++ environment with Excel used for data input and output. It carries out iterative calculations until these hit a set value such as an airport's maximum number of passengers.
After spending months anticipating a holiday, a week spent packing and doing last minute admin, and several stressful hours going through check-in and security at the airport, the very last thing you want to hear is that your flight has been axed. Cancelled flights are far more common in some UK airports than others. And now, flight compensation site AirAdvisor has looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority to reveal the cancellation rates across 20 of the UK's biggest airports in 2025. It also compared it to their rates in 2024 to figure out where cancellations are easing, and where they're getting worse.
Garrington Property Finders' annual ranking is described as an impartial, objective ranking based on publicly available data across 18 categories, including proximity to open space, National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the number of listed and period homes, air quality, and crime figures. A wide range of data sources is used, including those provided by the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Levelling Up, and Natural England.
OAG's Megahubs 2025 ranking reveals how well an international airport has connected you to the rest of the globe last year, based on a simple but telling comparison: These unique rankings are generated by comparing the number of scheduled connections to and from international flights with the number of destinations served from the airport.
LNER has unveiled the name and interior design of a new fleet of long-distance trains, which will be the first to carry the new Great British Railways branding when it launches in a few years time. LNER says demand on its East Coast Mainline route has continued to grow since the pandemic, with more than 24 million passengers travelling in 2024-25.
The Hidden Cost of Poor Airport Transport Planning Missed pickups, last-minute cancellations, surge pricing, and unreliable availability can all disrupt carefully planned business schedules. Searching for a Taxi Near Me just hours before departure may work occasionally, but for executives heading to important meetings, uncertainty is not an option. Public transport delays, airport parking fees, fuel costs, and lost preparation time all add up. For SMEs managing tight budgets, these inefficiencies are more than inconvenient-they affect both financial performance and professional reputation.
An airport transfer is a transportation service where the driver meets you at the airport and takes you to your destination or vice versa. When you have jet lag, airport transfers ensure you bypass the arduous task of flagging down and riding in uncomfortable cabs. You can schedule a transfer to and from the airport before your flight, so that professional drivers will be there for you when you step off a plane.
By 2024, EasyJet had expanded its network to 30 bases by opening two new bases in Alicante and Birmingham, and now claims to be one of the largest airlines in the world, with 355 aircraft, operating 1,207 routes across 38 countries and 164 airports. The company has an all-Airbus fleet flying 82 A319 aircraft, 180 A320ceo, 75 A320neo and 19 A321neo planes.
The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer, partly to help sort out its bot-ridden practical driving test booking system. "You will lead a critical portfolio that supports DVSA's plan (launched in December 2024) to reduce driving test waiting times, protect learner drivers from exploitation, and improve the customer booking system," stated chief executive Beverley Warmington, who joined the agency at the end of last year.
Airlines and airports have poured investment into digital transformation over the past decade, yet one critical part of the journey has remained stubbornly fragmented: ground transport. For business travellers, the most unpredictable part of a trip is often not the flight itself, but what happens after landing. Delays, poor coordination and limited real-time information around airport transfers can quickly undermine even the best-planned schedules, with knock-on effects for meetings, productivity and client confidence.