UK travel firms shed 800 jobs
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TUI, Europe's largest travel firm, is cutting 800 jobs at its UK businesses - Thomson Holidays, Lunn Poly and Brittania Airways.
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Rolls Royce is planning to slash more than two thousand jobs worldwide, including many in the UK
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French industrial minerals group Imerys, which makes kaolin products has said that it would restructure its operations in Britain with the probable loss of 800 jobs in Devon and Cornwall.
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Computer Associates International on Wednesday announced it will shed 800 employees from the company&#39;s worldwide workforce, saving $70 million a year in the process.
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Five job and benefits centres are to close in Scotland as part of a UK-wide drive to shed 104,000 civil service jobs.
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Thomas Cook, the travel firm planning to cut 2,800 jobs, has warned that the UK market remains challenging.
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Latest figures from VisitBritain show that while English cities such as Liverpool and Birmingham have recorded massive increases in overseas tourists between 2001 and 2003, Edinburgh has suffered a decline.
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TUI, the German travel company owner of Thomson Holidays, says it plans to cut 2,600 jobs in the UK.
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Travel company Thomas Cook, which recently merged with rival MyTravel, will close 150 stores and six offices.
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British Airways has said that third-quarter net profits sank 12.0 percent and revealed it would lose 80 million pounds from a cancelled cabin crew strike earlier this week.
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About 750 people have lost their jobs after Swissport UK, which provides check-in services at Heathrow Airport, collapses.
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France Telecom plans to shed 8,000 jobs worldwide this year under planned retirement programmes and transfers of staff to the civil service, the company told AFP.
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Eastman Kodak, the world&#39;s largest photographic company, announced it was cutting 600 jobs in the UK and 270 in France yesterday, as it pressed on with its strategic refocus, brought on by the
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Thousands heading abroad for Christmas face travel chaos after a UK holiday firm went bust.
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Some 80,000 computers at the Department for Work and Pensions went down during &#39;a routine software upgrade&#39; of its Microsoft machines this week.
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Tens of thousands of travellers saw their holiday plans disrupted on Sunday as fog led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights from London's Heathrow airport, the world's busiest.
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TUI, Europe's leading travel and tourism group, has said that it plans to cut 3,600 jobs, most of them in Britain.