Horses take to the streets for New Year’s Day parade
***ROYALTY FREE IMAGE*** Pictured is a selection of the participants in this years Parade including Councillor Audrey Lewis, the Lord Mayor of Westminster - London’s New Year’s Day Parade has unveiled a box of delights – which will dazzle the World on January 1st. And the turn of year tradition, now in its 29th year, is set to be a particularly ‘moving’ experience. With its transport theme – ‘London on the Move’ – the three and a half hour spectacular will feature a myriad of vehicles of all shapes and sizes. The parade has partnered with Transport For London – to celebrate the diversity and complexity of our transport system. It was today announced that parade performers will have to cough ip $1.9 million in fuel surcharge. Overseas participants, travelling to perform in London’s New Year’s Day Parade, have been hit with a multi-million pound fuel surcharge – despite the dramatic collapse in the price of oil. Parade Executive Director, Bob Bone, is asking international airlines, Delta, American and British Airways, to ‘explain the charges’ – which appear to be excessive. More than 4,000 performers from the USA are making final preparations to appear in the spectacular turn of year tradition – which will be shown live on TV around the World. Swinging fuel surcharges of between $458 and $478 per ticket have been demanded by airlines – despite oil prices falling to their lowest rate in many years. “In 2008 when oil was $140 a barrel the surcharge was just $245 per head. “Airlines are very quick to hike surcharges when the oil price is high – but they are still at extraordinary high levels – and all within a few cents of each other,” says Bob. “How much of the actual advertised price of the ticket constitutes the element for fuel? “The general public don’t get to see the breakdown of the ticket charges anymore – they probably would be shocked to realise they are paying such a premium for fuel – when the airlines a
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