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Download or read book House of Commons Transport Committee Financial Protection for Air Travellers Oral Evidence written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215018359
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A protection scheme for consumers who have flight problems has been in operation since 1973, called Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (ATOL). However, this scheme does not cover passengers who have purchased tickets directly from scheduled airlines, including both full-service and no-frills airlines. In a previous report (HCP 454-I, session 2002-03; ISBN 0215011996), the Committee judged this practice to be discriminatory and recommended the Government give urgent consideration to this matter. Given that the Civil Aviation Authority is shortly due to present advice to the Government on reform of consumer protection arrangements, following public consultation, the Committee's report examines financial protection for air travellers, including the complexity of the current situation, options for future protection arrangements, costs, methods and timescales, and European legislation.
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ISBN 13 : 9780215020338
Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial protection for air Travellers : Oral evidence, Wednesday 30 June 2004, Air Transport Users Council, Federation of Tour Operators and Association of British Travel Agents; British Airways, First Choice Airways and Ryanair; Civil Aviation Authorit
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215043986
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (ATOL) reform written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes to ATOL that come into effect today (April 30, 2012) do not go far enough say MPs on the Commons Transport Committee in this new report. Fundamental reform of ATOL - the consumer protection scheme for holidaymakers - is needed. The Committee calls on the Government to clarify its objectives for ATOL reform, to ensure that all passengers and holidaymakers are properly informed of the potential consequences of airline insolvency and the options available to them to obtain financial protection. MPs also recommend that: (i) The Civil Aviation Authority should work with the airlines to develop a code of practice covering information for all consumers making overseas holiday or travel bookings. This must be designed to ensure that passengers understand the risks of being stranded abroad as a result of airline insolvency and are aware of the insurance options available; (ii) The Government undertake research into consumers' views on whether, and in what ways, the ATOL scheme should be extended; (iii) The Government must distinguish between issues related to consumer protection and repatriation cover; (iv) Future reforms should be funded by the travel industry and must provide consumers with informed choices on protection options; (v) ATOL Protection Contributions should be linked to the value of the holiday booking, instead of the current flat rate of £2.50 per passenger.
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Total Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215027290
Total Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from an earlier report (HCP 806-I session 2003-04, ISBN 0215018354) published in July 2004, the Committee's report examines the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (ATOL) scheme, which covers the return of passengers who are stranded abroad when their air carrier fails and enables refunds to be made if ticket holders have yet to travel. However, the scheme does not cover the growing number of passengers who have purchased tickets directly from scheduled airlines (including both full-service and no-frills airlines), and in 2004, over 14 million UK travellers lacked ATOL protection (up from 5.5 million in 2000). The Committee rejects the Government's argument that relying on commercial insurance, together with voluntary repatriation arrangements between airlines, gives adequate protection to passengers from the consequences of airline collapse. Instead, it urges the Government to accept the advice of the Civil Aviation Authority, the industry regulator, to set up a levy of £1 on the price of each UK international travel air ticket as being the most cost effective option.
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215035523
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Passengers' experiences of air travel written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air travel has expanded hugely and in 2005, 228 million passengers travelled through UK airports. This title looks at the passenger experience of air travel from purchasing a ticket to boarding the plane, including travel to and from the airport, check-in and security, and complaint resolution.
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Total Pages : 3 pages
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Download or read book Financial Protection for Air Travellers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215539861
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book The use of airspace written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's Future of Air Transport strategy aims to significantly increase UK airport capacity over the next two decades to accommodate the predicted growth in demand for air travel. New runways at Heathrow and Stansted airports are two of the key airport development proposals. If all the White Paper-supported airport development proposals came to fruition, current Government forecasts predict that the number of passengers passing through UK airports will increase from 241 million passengers a year in 2007 to 455 million passengers a year in 2030. This UK growth matches air traffic predictions for the whole continent. Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, predicts that European air traffic will double by 2020. If rising demand for air travel is to be met effectively through additional airport capacity, a corresponding increase in airspace capacity must be realised. However, a country's airspace, the portion of atmosphere above its territory and territorial waters, controlled by that country is a finite resource. UK airspace, particularly in the South East of England, is already some of the busiest and most complex to manage in the world. This will almost certainly require improvements in the efficiency of the UK air traffic management system.The Committee's inquiry aims to look at how to meet these challenges. Its findings are aimed at those organisations responsible for airspace-related decisions in the UK: the CAA, NATS, and the Department for Transport. Passenger numbers and freight demand globally have declined in 2008 and in the first months of 2009. In its conclusions and recommendations the Committee covered the management of airspace, strategy, change and co-ordination in airspace management, environmental impacts of airspace changes and European developments.
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Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215055330
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Land Transport Security - Scope for Further EU Involvement? written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last year the European Commission published a staff working document that was principally concerned with extending the Commission's involvement in transport security matters. Land transport security measures seek to prevent acts of unlawful interference against passengers, freight or transport infrastructure in the road and rail sectors. Unlawful interference, as referred to in the Commission's document, includes anything from terrorism to relatively minor crime against passengers and transport operators. The conflation of such wide-ranging security issues is not helpful and the Government is urged to ensure that any future EU land security transport proposals are more focussed. Overall, the current risk-based approach to land transport security in the UK are working well and security measures deployed across UK transport modes are proportionate to the current threats that any given sector is exposed to. However, some weaknesses in the UK's current land transport security regime were identified, including, for example, procedures for dealing with multi-modal transport hubs at which different threat levels are applied to different modes; ensuring that staff had a consistent level of training and an understanding of potential threats, risks and preventative measures; and the difficulty of maintaining a high level of both staff and public vigilance. The principal recommendation is that the Government should participate actively in EU discussions to ensure that any detailed proposals are focussed and appropriate to the UK. Parliament should be keep abreast of developments so that we can continue to contribute to the shaping of policy in this area
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is thirteen years since the Railways Act 1993 started the process of privatising British Rail, replacing it with one company owning and managing the infrastructure, an open-access system for freight services and a series of twenty-five passenger franchises let to private companies for a specified period of time. This period has seen almost continuous change, and there is now a new 'triumvirate' framework with the Department for Transport, the Office of Rail Regulation and Network Rail in place, with the third generation of franchises in the process of being let and the number being reduced to nineteen. The Committee's report examines the current franchising system, focusing on the coherence of its objectives, the effectiveness of the process for awarding franchises and the management of franchise agreements, and whether more competition and vertical integration is needed. Findings include that the current system represents a policy muddle which lacks a coherent framework for the development of good services and delivery of value for money for passengers and taxpayers. The only way the Government can increase capacity and improve services for the long-term is to drop the dogmatic pursuit of competition in its decision-making as to what the private and public sectors can and should do in future. The Government's forthcoming long-term strategy for the railways will need to address these issues, and to set out a structure and a strategy capable of securing quality passenger rail services to meet demand over the next half a century.
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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Index to Chairmen written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215524263
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (242 download)
Download or read book The Opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAA opened Heathrow's fifth terminal for business on 27 March, after six years of construction at a cost of £4.3bn, on time and within budget. Passengers had been promised a "calmer, smoother, simpler airport experience". Multiple problems, however, meant that on the first day of operation alone, 36,584 passengers were frustrated by the 'Heathrow hassle' that Terminal 5 (T5) had been designed to eliminate. Problems were experienced with the baggage system, car parking, security searches and aspects of the building itself. When the baggage system failed, luggage piled up to such an extent that it was transported by road to be sorted off-site. According to British Airways, 23,205 bags required manual sorting before being returned to their owners. The Committee finds that most of these problems were caused by one of two main factors: insufficient communication between owner and operator, and poor staff training and system testing. The Committee was pleased to find that steps were being taken at all levels to address the problems at the source of T5's problems, and BAA, British Airways and the union Unite are working together to make Terminal 5 a success.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215037886
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Transport security written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 1085, session 2005-06 and HCP 96, session 2006-07, not previously published
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215555847
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Financial scrutiny of the Department for Transport written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report details a new approach to scrutinising the financial performance of the Department for Transport during the life of this parliament. The strategy rests on innovations agreed with the Department designed to make it easier for the Committee to compare information in the departmental annual review with that provided in the estimate of expenditure. These changes are to be welcomed as they will make it easier to hold the Government to account about the delivery of its transport policy pledges including those made in the recent comprehensive spending review. However, it is essential that in moving to a simplified structure for the annual estimate of expenditure, important detail about departmental spending is not hidden from public view. The Committee will be carefully monitoring the new arrangements to ensure that this is not the case
