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United Arab Emirates (UAE) holiday drivers heading abroad this summer can take advantage of a great range of new rental deals from Hertz.
Hertz, the largest general use car rental company in the world, has launched the new deals as the region continues to boom as a business and expat destination, meaning an increasing number of residents who will be travelling from the area this holiday season, even as inbound tourism arrives.
For a limited time, holiday makers from the UAE can take advantage of discounts on selected Hertz rentals at a huge number of participating destinations, including the UK, Italy, Belgium, […]

Embattled Japanese car manufacturer Toyota is set to recall yet another round of vehicles.
Still reeling from the public and investor backlash at several such recalls to date this year, primarily over safety issues, a new report from the Japanese ministry of Transport suggests that they have been advised Toyota would be placing the recall for Europe and North America.
It is believed that the company will recall as many as 270,000 vehicles to undertake precautionary work on a glitch in the engine. According to newspapers in Japan, the estimated costs will be around USD $228 million (£150 million). US-based officials for […]

The joint venture by Europe’s Air France-KLM and Delta Airlines in the US to share revenues and costs on transatlantic routes was strengthened this week when Italy’s Alitalia announced that it would be joining the team. With the Italian flag carrier on board, the venture, which is not a merger, will control just over a quarter of the capacity moving across the Atlantic. It is estimated that the team will achieve annual revenues of around $10 billion.
The four airlines are already bound together as members of the SkyTeam alliance. However, the transatlantic venture means wider cooperation on routes between Europe […]

Although IATA recently announced a dramatic turnaround in its predictions for the world’s airline industry, saying that instead of a loss it saw the possibility of a profit by the end of the financial year, most carriers are still desperately trying to cut costs to cope with the devastation wrought on their finances during the global economic downturn. Not so in the Middle East, according to a recent report.
Consultancy firm Alixpartners claims that whilst many airlines are licking their wounds and will continue to do so for a number of years, Middle Eastern carriers look set to double in size […]

The current popularity of the car club has not been lost on French car makers Peugeot, who have announced that they will be opening branches of ‘Mu by Peugeot’ in London and Bristol. Peugeot already has car club operations through its dealerships in a number of cities in France including Paris, Nantes and Lyon. Mu […]