Ben Clatworthy
Transport and Travel Correspondent at The Times
Travel Contributor at Times Radio
Transport and Travel Correspondent, @TheTimes 👨🏻💻 Also on @TimesRadio 📻
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1 week ago |
nationalgeographic.fr | Ben Clatworthy
Les Européens souhaitant voyager jusqu’à la capitale britannique en train pourraient bientôt se retrouver avec bien plus d’options que jamais auparavant. Le monopole d’Eurostar sur la liaison ferroviaire entre Londres et Paris, Bruxelles et Amsterdam fait en effet face à la plus grande menace de concurrence depuis le lancement du tout premier train sous la Manche de l’opérateur franco-britannique en 1994.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Ben Clatworthy
4 days agoThe European Union has proposed a new round of sanctions against Russia, which includes a ban on the use of the Nord Stream underwater pipelines between Russia and Germany and the addition of 77 more vessels to the blacklist of the so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers carrying Russian oil. Plus, …
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1 week ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Ben Clatworthy
This story was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Passengers travelling to Europe by rail could see a raft of new train operators in the coming years. Eurostar — which has always had a monopoly on services between London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam — now faces the biggest threat of competition since it launched its first train through the Channel Tunnel in 1994. With the promise of more choice and lower prices, could this be good news for travellers? What’s the latest?
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
There’s no extra legroom — but you do get a divider so there’s no fighting over the armrest — and you don’t even get the smug satisfaction of turning left on short-haul single-aisle planes. Yet at British Airways (BA) business-class short-haul is going gangbusters. Sean Doyle, the airline’s chief executive, said the premium cabin had “defied our best expectations”. Sean Doyle, chief executive of British AirwaysHe said: “After the global financial crisis in 2008, people were saying it wouldn’t work.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
The way bosses at Heathrow dealt with the fire shutdown of the airport reveals just how arrogant they are, the former boss of British Airways has said. Willie Walsh, now director general of the airline trade body International Air Transport Association (Iata), said he was staggered by the response to the incident in March. He said executives at Europe’s busiest airport “don’t see any failure on their part” and make no effort to communicate with passengers in times of disruption.
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