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GM and Ford say sorry over bailout

Car bosses seek $34 billion in emergency loans but promise sweeping changes and say they will take only $1 a year in pay

Bidding for Aer Lingus - oh why, O’Leary?

The commitments made by Ryanair demonstrate that Mr O’Leary is very serious in his attempt to gain control of Aer Lingus

Ryanair will ‘honour and respect’ Aer Lingus unions

Michael O’Leary said he will recognise Aer Lingus’s unions if he is allowed to buy the Irish flag carrier in a €748m bid

German car sales plunge as recession kicks in

Europe's biggest car market poised for its worst year since 1990 as drivers put off purchases and companies cut back fleets

Stagecoach boss took the wheel during a strike

After bus drivers in Aberdeen rejected a 9.5 per cent pay offer, multimillionaire Brian Souter worked an eight-hour shift

Stagecoach shares plunge as recession bites

Rising tide of job losses in City is expected to halt record growth in railways as commuter numbers fall early in new year

British Airways’ premium numbers plunge

Nine of the airline's twenty largest corporate customers are understood to be City banks who have slashed travel budgets

'US aviation industry needs foreign cash'

Barack Obama urged to liberalise ownership rules, which allow foreign carriers to take a stake worth no more than 25%

Why speed cameras hit over-60s hardest

Older drivers suffer most from technology that has no discretion

Service sector figures ... Stagecoach: Tempus at lunchtime

Service sector indicates a deeper recession than thought ... Stagecoach is set to reverse out of the FTSE 100

BA premium passenger numbers slump 10.8%

UK flag carrier, in merger talks with Australia's Qantas, reveals a fall in flyers after refusing to cut ticket prices

Tempus analysis: Off track

The 20 per cent fall in Stagecoach Group sharesmakes ejection from the FTSE 100 Index an inevitability

Stagecoach shares fall 20% on rail warning

Operator of South West Trains will cut jobs to stave off the effects of recession amid falling numbers of City commuters

Stobart to buy Southend airport

Andrew Tinkler, head of the Carlisle logistics group, wants to create a niche air-freight airport at London Gateway

BA-Qantas talks fuelled by Irish connection

The proposed airline tie-up is being driven by Willie Walsh and Alan Joyce, his countryman and counterpart at Qantas