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  • News: flydubai Cargo starts operations in Russia

    flydubai, Dubai’s innovative airline, has announced the launch of flydubai Cargo in Russia, providing an inexpensive and convenient outbound cargo service to counterpoint the prevailing inbound service.

    flydubai operates regular flights from four Russian cities: Kazan, Samara, Ufa and Yekaterinburg, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Goods are shipped on its fleet of name new Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

    Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, said: “Russia is a crucial marketplace for flydubai and the beginning of our cargo operations reinforces our commitment to providing a much wider range of affordable services. We’re confident that through enabling regional businesses to ship their goods on to Dubai, and extra afield, it might help in developing new trade links between our countries and allowing a better range of products, including perishable items, to be transported.”

    flydubai Cargo, which started operations on 01 January 2012, transports a number of goods including perishable items, textiles, electronics, courier items, pharmaceuticals and general cargo. Companies often need to ship goods via Moscow as there are not any direct air links in lots of regions, that may limit the variability of products traded. But now, perishable items moreover spare parts and other in-demand items could be sent on to Dubai and beyond quickly and efficiently. Once in Dubai, shipments may well be connected between flydubai flights within one hour or from eight hours to interline partners.

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  • VisitEngland teams with Blacks for brand new campaign

    VisitEngland and outdoor specialists Blacks have announced a thrilling partnership to advertise outdoor breaks in rural England.

    Domestic overnight holiday trips to rural locations in England were worth £2.2bn in 2011, with day trips contributing one more £8.7 billion.

    To boost rural tourism this year, the national tourist board and Blacks have today launched a £1.2million multimedia campaign, geared toward inspiring Britons to explore England’s breath-taking countryside with a brief break within the great outdoors.

    The campaign will run throughout March, ranging from today, with a 30” television advertisement filmed in Cumbria, highlighting the various outdoor activities that may be enjoyed off the beaten track in England’s countryside – including walking, camping, trail and fell running, and wild swimming.

    Consumers are encouraged to go to www.blacks.co.uk/visitengland, where they may be able to enter a contest to win an incredible adventure break in Cumbria.

    The website also contains destination details about the filming locations, and advice on learn how to become involved in outdoor pursuits around the country.

    James Berresford, VisitEngland’s chief executive, commented: “England’s stunning countryside is a big draw for visitors from both home and abroad, and gives experiences to be found nowhere else on the planet!

    “We’re delighted to be working with Blacks in this campaign, which showcases England’s dramatic landscapes to inspire Britons to explore what’s on their lonesome doorstep with a thrilling outdoor break.”

  • News: Hertz Equipment Rental teams with Donlen

    The Hertz Corporation and Donlen, the fleet industry’s most comprehensive and integrated provider of financing and asset management solutions, today announced the launch of HERC Ready Finance™, a groundbreaking equipment acquisition program, in collaboration with Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC).

    HERC Ready Finance combines the financial expertise of Donlen with the breadth of obtainable resources from Hertz Equipment, to give the broadest range of goods and funding options available within the fleet industry. Hertz Equipment’s commercial customers now have access to “one-stop-shopping” for financing and assets across a whole spectrum of kit and trucks.

    “HERC Ready Finance shows what two industry leaders can achieve by working together. Hertz Equipment has one of the crucial strongest fleet mixes within the equipment rental industry; by also offering financial options through Donlen, we further illustrate our position because the leading market solutions provider,” comment HERC President, Lois Boyd.

    “Today’s hard-pressed credit markets often make it difficult to access capital, especially for small to mid-size companies,” said Mike Lewis, Donlen SVP and General Manager, Equipment Leasing. “Customers are searhing for options, and HERC Ready Finance gives them a continuing financial solution for the acquisition of HERC equipment. By employing our respective resources, Donlen and HERC together are providing how to help companies succeed and grow.”

    This is the second one product launched by Hertz and Donlen that leverages the strength in their relationship. Previously, Hertz Value Lease™ was introduced to the market, providing the fleet industry’s first true leasing alternative product. By virtualizing the Hertz rental inventory and making it available to their customers for lease, commercial fleets can finance quality, pre-driven vehicles for a shorter time at a lower price.

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  • IHIF: Leisure investment growing in importance for UK banks

    The UK hotels and leisure sector has become the third-largest lending marketplace for NatWest and RBS under the Funding for Lending Scheme, with the bank offering cost-effective FLS loans of over £200m to the world to this point.

    NatWest and RBS is forecasting continued, strong demand for lending from this key client base in 2013 because the sector invests for growth.

    NatWest and RBS’s commercial banking division, which caters for business with an annual turnover of under £25m, launched FLS facilities in August 2012 and, as at the beginning of 2013, had allocated over £2.26bn across 15,000 SMEs through the UK.

    On a sector-by-sector basis, hotels and leisure is now the third biggest recipient of FLS loans, finishing behind healthcare and agriculture.

    Andrew Taylor, head of leisure for commercial banking at NatWest and RBS, said: “I’m delighted at how successful we have now been in helping clients inside the hotels and leisure sector access cost-effective funds – we’re committed to working with businesses of all sizes.

    “Under the FLS, we believe we’ve made a true difference to this business base, making a collection of bespoke finance packages for a lot of firms during the UK.

    The specialist Hotels and Leisure Team incorporates people inside the bank’s vast network with coverage around the UK, meaning we will draw on a broad range of expertise including the economic and business banking teams.”

    NatWest and RBS formed its dedicated Hotels and Leisure Team in September 2011 and regards the hotels, restaurants, pubs and leisure sectors as one of the vital key lending targets across commercial banking.

    The team includes greater than 80 managers and directors around the RBS network. The bank operates across all aspects of the leisure market, splitting the arena into seven sub-sectors – with hotels receiving the best percentage of fund allocation.

    In 2012, total lending from the Leisure Team was up eight per cent against 2011, and is predicted to extend again for the year ahead.

    Andrew Taylor, head of leisure for NatWest and RBS, concluded: “We take lots of pride in both sector expertise, in addition to our ability to hear each business to realize an in depth understanding in their specific needs. The united kingdom has fantastic businesses operating within the leisure sector.

    The diversity of our skill set is something that we believe stands us with the exception of the contest.

    “Our team commits to at the least two full days a year devoted to all the businesses on our books, and we maintain a powerful want to understand and appreciate every client on both an intensive business, and private level. We realise, however, that the work is much from over, and we shall remain committed to helping hotels, restaurants and the numerous other businesses operating within the sector to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions.”

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  • News: easyjet adds Copenhagen service

    Low cost carrier easyJet is increasing its services between London Gatwick and Copenhagen with an early morning departure from Copenhagen and a night departure from London Gatwick.

    The move will see easyJet’s flights increase from three to four daily from 24 May 2013.

    Paul Simmons, easyJet’s UK Director said: “We are actively improving our product choice, flexibility, availability and quality to aid our business passengers by offering early morning and evening flights seven days per week which can be supplemented by two afternoon departures.

    “Our flights to Copenhagen can be found from as low as £29.99** (a technique including taxes) and we deliver outstanding value with our regular fares proven to be cheaper in eight out of ten occasions and flexi fares nine out of ten, so it really does make business sense to fly easyJet.”

    easyJet has also increased the frequency of its flights from London Gatwick to the Croatian cities of Split and Dubrovnik in addition to Nice in France and currently also serves Copenhagen from Bristol, Edinburgh and London Stansted.

    easyJet celebrated flying 10m business passengers across its network in 2012 and has seen a vital increase within the variety of passengers flying with the airline on business.

    The airline made its ‘flexi fares’ available to all via easyJet.com in 2011 giving passengers greater choice and suppleness with benefits corresponding to unlimited free date changes from one week before, to 3 weeks after the unique travel date and Speedy Boarding included within the fare price.

    Over 200,000 passengers fly easyJet between its largest base at London Gatwick and Copenhagen and this figure will rise to over 300,000 owing to these service additions.

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