Systemic and Human Failures led to al-Qaeda Bomb Attempt

December 30, 2009

On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama addressed Americans about the Christmas Day bomb attempt by an al-Qaeda follower. The now infamous incident occurred on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ...

Obama says Christmas Day Terrorist Plotters will be Found as Al-Qaeda Calims Responsibility

December 29, 2009

US President Obama has given his first public remark on the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines jetliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, for which interrupted his Hawaiian holiday. He says that they will not ...

Snow and Ice Weather Warning for UK New Year

December 29, 2009

Very early this morning, the Met Office issued a National Severe Weather Warning for all of the UK. According to the radar and forecast from The Weather Channel (as of this post), much of England, Wales, ...

Nigerian Terrorist Charged for Attempted Plane Bombing, Security Increased

December 28, 2009

A Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane during a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was trying to ignite a new and sophisticated ...

American Airlines Crashes off Jamaica Runway

December 24, 2009

On Tuesday evening, 91 out of 154 people on an American Airlines flight were taken to a hospital in Jamaica after their plane crashed off its runway upon landing. According to officials, none of ...

Eurostar High Speed Services Resume

December 22, 2009

Eurostar is planning to resume their normal cross-channel rail services slowly over the next few days, starting today (Tuesday). However, the company's reputation may be a little hurt after it failed to cope with the severe ...

50000 Eurostar Passengers Stranded

December 21, 2009

Rail services between England, Belgium and France were shut down indefinitely by Eurostar on Sunday, which promises even more chaos for thousands of passengers who have been stranded in the week before Christmas. Train services were ...

Eurostar cancels all services

December 20, 2009

Eurostar has announced that all services will be cancelled today. Test trains are set to run instead so that the company can figure out what exactly went wrong when thousands of travellers were left stranded in the Channel Tunnel for ...

TSSA and Eurostar Avoid Strike by Reaching Agreement

December 19, 2009

This week as seen several strikes across Europe called off. In the wake of the British Airways strike being rule as illegal, the Eurostar train managers also called off their scheduled 48-hour strike after an agreement was reached for changes ...

High Court Saves British Airways Passengers from Official Strike

December 18, 2009

About 1 million Christmases were saved for British Airways passengers on Thursday when the high court ruled that the cabin crew's planned 12-day strike was unlawful. Mrs Justice Cox said that a strike like this ...