Newly re-elected London Mayor Borish Johnson has re-stated his calls for a brand new airport to be built in the Thames Estuary, known as "Boris Island".

When compared with neighbouring Sardinia, the range of flights to Corsica is even more scarce, unless you want to take a flight connection through Paris - but even this can be tricky.

EasyJet have announced that they will start flights from London Gatwick airport to Luxembourg city at the end of the summer. This marks the first low-cost entrant into one of Europe's wealthiest countries - but if you don't live near to Gatwick, what is the best way of getting there?

Flightmapping has been chosen as "Website of the Week" by the Daily Mail online

If you have ever read the small print airlines like to use with regards to carrying bicycles, you will have seen the phrase "bikes and planes don't mix", yet each year thousands of passengers do choose to take their bikes on planes.

Lufthansa has teamed up with Flightmapping to offer a £20 discount on the airline's new flights to Germany from the UK.

At the start of this month, the government put up Air Passenger Duty (APD) yet again, creeping the tax surcharge on many long-haul flights ever closer to the £100 mark.

As with virtually any tax, the higher it goes, the more effort people will make to avoid it, so just how easy is it to get away without paying?

Calls to stop next month's above-inflation flights tax increase have been ignored by the Chancellor.

Some of the fiercest rivals in the business world have united to urge Chancellor George Osborne to halt plans to increase the UK's controversial flights tax in today's (March 21) budget.

Ryanair has scrapped plans to launch flights from Liverpool to Almeria in southern Spain this summer.

London Southend Airport's aim to offer a serious alternative to congested Stansted has received a major boost with the opening of a sleek new passenger terminal.

Ryanair has announced that it will be launching flights to Beziers in southwest France from Manchester later this month

British Airways (BA) has announced plans to add a further three flights a week from London Heathrow to Hong Kong.

Eastern Airways has stepped into the breach to offer flights from Southampton to Brussels following Flybe's decision to scrap the route.

The journey time from the airport into the city it purports to serve is the key factor, especially when it can turn out to be longer than the actual flight duration.

Ryanair is notorious for operating flights from airports that are miles away from the cities they claim to serve.

London has so much to offer to any visitor, but where else can you find so many attractions where the reason for existence is for the joy of transport itself?

Here's 10 of the best!

A hire car picked up at the arrival airport can give you a huge amount of freedom. Here are some general tips to get the best out of your trip.

Finding flights to Sardinia is a great deal harder than it ought to be, as there are so few direct routes from the UK. So what are the best options for getting there, and are there any other alternatives?

Are the price comparison websites really the best way for you to find the cheap flight you are looking for?

Never ones to let a double-dip recession get in the way of a good holiday, budget airline Monarch is offering Flightmapping users up to £20 off return flights this summer.

All direct flights from the UK to Las Vegas from June 27 onwards will use McCarran International Airport's huge new Terminal 3.

Budget airline Monarch has teamed up with Flightmapping.com to offer £10 off its flights to Italy from the UK.

I would really say that there are only two rules for travel insurance - or any other insurance for that matter - (1) check the small print and (2) see rule 1.

Budget airline bmibaby is continuing its tenth anniversary celebrations by slashing prices on the top ten most popular routes from Belfast City, Birmingham and East Midlands.

British Airways (BA) is increasing the number flights it operates from London Heathrow to Johannesburg in South Africa.

Bmibaby will be launching flights from Birmingham to three European city-break destinations at the end of this month.

Competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said it will not be reviewing International Airline Group's (IAG) deal to buy BMI from Lufthansa.

Unfortunately there really is no such thing as a cheap flight to the Caribbean these days, as increasing fuel prices and the astronomically high Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax make Caribbean destinations even more expensive than they traditionally have been.

Average fares for return economy flights between London and New York currently range between £350 and £400, around £100 more than before the credit crunch.

Whenever we hear that China is booming and that this means that millions of Chinese are queueing up to come in to Britain, the flight route network never quite seems to bear this out.

Just where exactly is China in the list of top 20 destinations from the UK, or even from Heathrow airport? It simply isn't there.