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• New Community Bus Service For Fleet Residents

  By  Fact0tem at 13:32 on 12/08/10

  

  Underserved public transport users in Fleet, Church Crookham and Elvetham Heath are now able to use a new bus service to travel around the local area. Operating from Monday to Saturday every week, the Fleet Link is designed to help those with mobility issues and people who live in areas of the community that are not served by conventional bus routes. Replacing the Call and Go service, the Fleet Link is usually able to pick...

• Coach firm collapses with the loss of 40 jobs

  By  Fleet-People at 11:00 on 12/08/10

  

  LONG established Devon transport firm Dawlish Coaches is to go into liquidation with the loss of nearly 40 jobs. Employees have been told they will have to apply to the Government’s Redundancy Payments Office to claim outstanding wages, redundancy money, pay in lieu of notice, and holiday entitlement. Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor were appointed to help the directors put the firm into voluntary liquidation following a board...

• Virgin snaps up 40 aircraft making Airbus figures climb higher

  By  Fleet-People at 07:00 on 28/07/10

  

  PLANE manufacturer Airbus capped off a highly successful week at the Farnborough Airshow with a multi-billion order for 40 aircraft. The firm, which employs 4,000 at its factory in Filton, has revealed that Virgin America is to buy 40 A320s in a deal worth an estimated $3.5 billion. The airline has said it will buy 40 of the aircraft up-front with options for 20 more aircraft. The news come in a week when the company announced...

• Chopper firm’s £1m take-off to new jobs

  By  Fleet-People at 07:00 on 27/07/10

  

  BOND Aviation Group, the UK’s fastest growing privately owned helicopter service provider, has unveiled a new £1 million Design and Completions Department at its headquarters at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton. It will create ten new jobs. The new department will provide design, installation and modifications services to the helicopter and fixed-wing industry worldwide, as well as supporting the Bond Aviation...

• Deals put wind back under sector’s wings

  By  Fleet-People at 09:00 on 22/07/10

  

  Even the notoriously unpredictable British weather played its part as the aviation industry enjoyed one of its best weeks for more than three years. Every year, the great and good of the aerospace sector gather in either Farnborough or a northern suburb of Paris to broker deals, catch up on old contacts or rub shoulders with Whitehall decision-makers. The biennial airshow in Farnborough is the key event of the aviation calendar...

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