Transport secretary faces growing calls to look to the regions to ease crowding at Heathrow, rather than build a hub in the Thames estuary

Airlines will need to make greater use of their flight slots in the European Union from 2014 or risk losing them under legislation proposed by the EU's executive, a move it said would help avoid a capacity crunch at Europe's airports. More »

Passengers at UK airports glide through passport controls with some claiming their experience to be 'better than usual'

UK citizens should have their own passport controls at domestic airports and ports, a group of MPs says.

Public sector workers are staging strikes against proposed changes in their pension arrangements, affecting schools, hospitals, airports and council services.

Schools, ferries, airports and benefit offices throughout Scotland are among the services hit as 300,000 public sector workers go on strike.

Civil servants have been asked to man ports and airports during the public sector strike planned for next Wednesday, it has emerged.

Civil servants from across Whitehall are being lined up to act as border staff at UK ports and airports during next week's public sector strikes.

Proposed shake-up of regulator to end conflicting priorities by stating that its primary duty is to promote passengers' interests

Transport secretary tells the Commons she wants to see more airports use security scanners as a means of combating terrorism