Virgin Atlantic founder Sir Richard Branson has upped the ante in his bid to block IAG's purchase of struggling BMI off Lufthansa by submitting an official complaint to the European Competition Commissioner.

Ryanair is notorious for operating flights from airports that are miles away from the cities they claim to serve.

Only the bravest of entrepreneurs would consider launching a new European airline in the current financial climate, but Vueling founders Carlos Munoz and Lazaro Ros have clearly got the required "cojones".

EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has suffered an embarrassing setback in his attempts to overturn proposals to award shares to senior executives at the airline.

Ryanair has just announced a huge increase to their baggage charges for the summer school holidays period.

Against my better judgement I cycled into work this morning during what can at best be described as "wintry British weather".

All easyJet bookings are now subject to a £9 "admin fee" to cover the costs of processing card payments. They even have the gall to claim the extra charge has been introduced in the name of transparency.

Britain will be in the spotlight in a major way this year. Firstly we'll be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, then comes England's glorious quarter-finals defeat by some dastardly foreign types at the Euro 2012 football tournament, and finally the biggest show on earth arrives with the London Olympics.

Average fares for return economy flights between London and New York currently range between £350 and £400, around £100 more than before the credit crunch.

France has long been one of the most popular destinations with Brits, and despite Eurostar's high-speed rail services eating into the flights market between London and Paris, the range of flights to France from the UK has never been better.

A Nigerian judicial panel has overturned fines totalling £149m dished out by the country's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic for alleged price fixing on flights between the UK and Nigeria.

To use a football analogy, Ryanair love nothing more than a successful away day on the Continent.

Many travel related messageboards are chock full of people asking 'when is the cheapest time to fly to...'

Birmingham Airport must rebrand itself as 'London Birmingham' to maximise use of the new HS2 rail link.

Nobody loves a grandiose infrastructure project more than me. But, I'm also a realist, and it is quite clear that building a brand new airport on partially reclaimed land in the Thames Estuary over 40 miles from London is a non-starter.