iReporter Amber Casterlin describes waking up to find everything near her Iceland hotel covered in volcanic ash.
A United Kingdom budget airline has apologized to its Jewish customers after loading ham and bacon baguettes on to the flight instead of the standard kosher food.
Soaring airfares have some travelers worried they'll stay grounded this summer.
Spain reopened its airspace Saturday after it was shut down due to a strike by air traffic controllers, the country's airport authority said.
A strike by air-traffic controllers affected flights Wednesday across France, resulting in cancellations of 10 percent of scheduled flights from Paris' main international airport, the civil aviation authority DGAC said.
French air traffic controllers are scheduled to strike Wednesday, affecting flights out of the two main Paris airports, the French civil aviation authority said.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee explains EasyJet's hi-tech plan to detect dangerous ash clouds.
British budget airline easyJet unveiled a volcanic ash detector on Friday that it says will allow aircraft to safely navigate around potentially lethal ash clouds.
British Airways stands to lose up to $50 million a day during the course of a 12-day strike that threatens to cripple the already flagging airline, according to some airline analysts.
Higher fuel costs weighed on full-year profits at EasyJet after the low-cost airline hedged a lot of its fuel needs at high prices.
The successful transplant of a lab-grown windpipe almost did not happen when budget airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, UK newspapers reported Friday.
First it was Maxjet. Then, last month came news of Eos' departure from the all-business airline club due to bankruptcy.
The British government relaxed rules for carry-on luggage at most UK airports on Monday, but confusion is expected as it does not apply to every destination and airlines are still able to set their own rules.
UK airports set to do away with one piece carry-on luggage restictions. CNN's Robin Oakley reports.
For some, a long commute means sitting in a car for an hour before arriving at the office, while for others a trip to the office can mean flying to another continent.
Business development executives are tasked with creating profits in an industry that's making multi-million dollar losses. It's they who decide where airlines fly, and when.
The European Union plans to harmonize the size of carry-on bags with the U.S, while UK officials are set to announce an easing of air travel restrictions next week.
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British and American business travelers will soon have a new low-cost airline to choose from for flights between London and New York.
Traveling with cut-price airlines has long been popular with those on a tight budget, but a report has found that business people are also taking advantage of cheap flights.
In a shake-up likely to have a major impact on business travelers, British Airways is to restructure its European operations to launch a direct challenge to low-cost carriers.
Ten years ago this month, low-cost carrier easyJet waved off its first commercial flight from Britain's Luton airport, sparking an air industry revolution that has had a major impact on the business travel sector.
EasyJet, easyCruise, and now easyHotel. The entrepreneur known for his no-frills ethos, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is opening his latest venture.
Money Magazine: More Europe, Fewer Eurosupdated: Tue Mar 01 2005 00:01:00
You could just go to Paris. You could take your precious week or two of vacation, fly all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, park yourself in a hotel, eat at a different café and go to a different ...
Roger Collis, author of "The survivor's guide to business travel", talks to CNN about how to make the most of your business travel budget, as well as helping you save time and money.
AirAsia, a Kuala Lumpur-based airline that was Asia's first budget carrier, is leading the no-frills travel revolution in the region.
As governments race to liberalize their airspace amid the explosive growth in Asian budget carriers, one man and his airline are ahead of the curve.
If you have ever worried about checking in a heavy business trip suitcase in your hand baggage allowance, help is now at hand.
With oil prices at a 13-year high above $40 a barrel, a number of airlines have already increased ticket prices.
Shares in Europe's second-biggest low-cost airline, easyJet, plunged 24.7 percent on opening after the company posted a half-year loss and said it was revising down its forecasts.
The no-frills ethos of easyJet will be brought down to earth with a new bus venture to begin later this summer in the United Kingdom.
Travel industry experts have shrugged off fears that small central European countries joining the European Union on May 1 could lose their identity as visitors flood in.
With 10 more countries about to swell the ranks of the EU come May 1, the one business sector likely to get a boost is the travel industry -- both for leisure and business.
In the early days of budget travel, low fare airlines catered for tourists on a shoestring budget, but now no-frills airlines are casting their spell over business fliers as well.
Italian bus, train and metro workers have gone on strike in various cities on Friday, disrupting transport for a second day in a row over demands for better pay.
When my father graduated from high school in the 1960s, he spent a summer hitchhiking through Europe, holding out a U.S. flag and his thumb and working his way around the Continent. Given that hitc...
The scion of a Greek shipping magnate, Haji-Iannou started his Stelmar tanker company in 1992. Since then he has founded easyJet, which aims to be a European version of Southwest Airlines; the easy...
This fall a new inhabitant will take its place among the theaters and theme parks of Times Square--the easyEverything Internet cafe. This temple of interactivity, billed as the largest of its kind,...
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