Travel is not managed by Procurement Services.
Travel
Travel Policy/Strategy
The University has a travel policy and is progressing a sustainable travel plan (2010/2015).
Travel insurance
The insurance team will need to know before you travel on business. You will also need to complete a risk assessment form before travelling. Please visit the Legal and Insurance Services travel insurance pages for more information.
Accommodation
Please use our current suppliers search to find accommodation.
Baggage allowance
Please view the baggage allowance chart from Key Travel.
University travel tracker service
In response to its duty of care to staff and groups/students travelling whilst employed by or attending courses at the University, a travel tracker service has been established that enables the University to locate all of its travellers in an emergency. It helps the University provide them with appropriate advice and support during crises. It provides security and location briefings to travellers before travel. Alerts travellers to specific threats in their chosen destinations and to supplys other services that may be reasonably required in times of emergency.
To comply with the University's insurance and risk management requirements travellers must report travel plans to Insurance and Business Continuity Services in a timely manner. This should be done using the appropriate forms:
The travel tracker reporting form for staff and, or groups and, or students whose travel is booked through a University approved suppliers.
Banned Airlines:
The updated blacklist is available on the following link:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/safety/air-ban/index_en.htm
The following information has been received from our European colleagues. Please circulate to all of your travellers and bookers.
Update of the Community black list of carriers
Please note that an updated Community black list of unsafe airlines has been adopted today and will be published shortly in the Official Journal of the European Union. It will enter into effect on the day after publication in the Official Journal.
Compared to the previous black list published in April 2012, the following relevant changes have been made:
All air carriers certified in Eritrea have been added to the EU blacklist. On the other hand, following improvements in the safety situation of Mauritania, all air carriers certified in Mauritania have been removed from the list. The same was true for the Jordan carrier Jordan Aviation, which was also removed from the list. Please note that there have still been no changes in respect of the Philippines and Indonesia; all carriers certified by the authorities with responsibility for regulatory oversight of the Philippines and Indonesia, with the exception of 6 carriers (Garuda Indonesia, Airfast Indonesia, Mandala Airlines, Ekspres Transportasi Antarbenua, Indonesia Air Asia and Metro Batavia) are still banned in the EU.
The EU blacklist includes now the following (all additions underlined):
Three carriers whose operations are fully banned in the European Union - Blue Wing Airlines from Surinam, Meridian Airways from Ghana, and Conviasa from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
All carriers, with certain exceptions, from 20 countries are fully banned in the EU: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon (with the exception of three carriers which operate under restrictions and conditions), Indonesia (with the exception of six carriers), Kazakhstan (with the exception of one carrier which operates under restrictions and conditions), the Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Mozambique, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland and Zambia.
10 air carriers are allowed to operate into the EU under restrictions and conditions - Air Astana from Kazakhstan; Afrijet, Gabon Airlines and SN2AG from Gabon; Air Koryo from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Airlift International from Ghana; Air Service Comores from the Comoros; Iran Air from the Islamic Republic of Iran; TAAG Angolan Airlines from the Republic of Angola; and Air Madagascar from Madagascar.
The updated blacklist is available on the following link:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/safety/air-ban/index_en.htm
Please pay attention, the list of airlines banned in the EU has been updated but not the Regulation nore the press release on that page.
