14 April 2014

Man accused of almost £500,000 Gatwick parking theft

A former employee of APCOA has appeared in court accused of stealing almost £500,000 from his employer.

The alleged theft took place between August 2010 and November 2012 from the APCOA Administration Building at Gatwick Airport.

Ghazala Ashraf appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday and entered no plea to the charges of theft by employee and concealing and transferring criminal property.

A preliminary hearing will take place on 2 May at Lewes Crown Court.

09 April 2014

ASA raps Holiday Extras for parking discount claims

The most expensive way to book airport parking is to just turn up on the day of your flight and pay the gate price. It’s something most of us are aware of, but now Holiday Extras has had a rap on the knuckles for letting customers know about it.

Holiday Extras, which sells holiday add-ons, has been slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for discount claims made in an email, Travelmole reports.

The email claims customers can save up to 60% on the gate price, however, the ASA said at five airports where parking prices could be compared, no customer had saved 60%, although it did acknowledge that, taken as a whole, 17% of customers had saved 60% or more in the period covered.