Frankfurt - A German Lufthansa AG airline collided with a bus on a Frankfurt airport runway, officials said Thursday.

Infrastructure giant GMR Infrastructure Limited has informed that GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) has finally received approval from union ministry to levy UDF (User Development Fee) from all outbound passengers at the rate of Rs 375/- per head.

The levy will be in addition to the passenger service fee (PSF) of Rs 225 that passengers pay for security and airport infrastructure.

GHIAL is a subsidiary of the GMR Infrastructure and developer and operator of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA)

Brussels - The European Commission is investigating whether Ryanair's decision to cancel thousands of tickets bought through third-party websites breaches EU rules on air passenger rights.

"I can confirm that we have sent a letter" asking Ryanair to provide additional information, Fabio Pirotta, the EU's transport commission spokesman, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Wednesday.

The Irish low-cost carrier recently announced that all bookings made on non-Ryanair websites after August 11 would not be honoured, and that passengers would be refunded.

London - Passengers on a flight from Britain to Crete were given the choice of either arriving at their destination without their bags or getting off the plane, British media reported Wednesday.

Already seated aboard the flight, the passengers of a Viking airlines flight were told the aircraft needed to reduce its weight before the journey and that either half the passengers would have to disembark, or they could all go, but without their luggage.

London - The British airport company BAA faces having to sell two of its three airports in London, following a recommendation of the British Competition Commission on Wednesday.

The commission, which monitors competition standards, said in a preliminary report due to be confirmed in April, that the airport operator should sell two of either Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted airports.

The watchdog also recommended that the BAA give up one of its two Scottish airports, Edinburgh or Glasgow.

The fixing of the User Development Fee {UDF) at Rs 375 for each
departing domestic passenger by the Centre has come as a surprise for
the GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) on Monday
evening.

GHIAL had earlier represented to Ministry of Civil Aviation to fix UDF around Rs 725.

Since Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) had permitted the airport
operators to collect Rs 1,000 as User Development Fee (UDF) from
international passengers, the GHIAL was ready to scale down the
domestic UDF to Rs 725 per passenger.

The matter had been hanging fire for over two months. The UDF from
international passengers was being collected from June 11, 2008.