The government has today published The Drone Bill which is designed to give police new powers on illegal and unsafe drone use. The draft bill will go before Parliament in Spring 2018 and will include changes to the Air Navigation Order to make drone users take safety awareness tests. The [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has helped a dream come true for Thirteen-year-old Majorie Nakmulli-Mukiibi from East Ham in London. Majorie has recently completed a grueling series of chemotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma and it was whilst in hospital she told her mother that she dreamed of working as cabin crew for the airline. [read more]
Air India is adding a 2nd non-stop route from Birmingham Aiport (BHX/EGBB) to compliment its daily service to Delhi. The new route, which is due to commence early in 2018, is a twice-weekly service to Amritsar in Northern Punjab region making Birmingham the only UK airport to serve the destination [read more]
Forget a few huts in the street, if you want a real German market then why not head off to Berlin with Flybe from Cardiff Airport. Each year the German capital hosts one of Germany’s biggest markets and this years opens today. Running from the 23rd November through to 31st [read more]
Administrator KPMG has regained control of Monarch slots after an appeal. The UK High Court had previous ruled that KPMG could not retain the slots on the basis that Monarch wasn’t flying, and is unlikely to do so in the future however the court of appeal overturned the ruling and allowed KPMG [read more]
In perhaps one of the cutest aviation videos around Emirates latest addition, the Cirrus SR22 get’s a warm welcome from its big brother, the Airbus A380. The single-engined Cirrus SR22 is used by the Emirates Flight Academy to train future Emirates pilots.
Icelandic leisure airline Primera Air (PF/PRI) has added to new European destinations to it’s list of routes from Birmingham (BHX/EGBB). Daily flights to Malaga (MLG/LEMG) and Palma De Mallorca (PMI/LEPA) in Spain will begin on May 14th 2018 using a Boeing 737-800 aircraft configured in 189 seat one-class economy setup. [read more]
The Boeing 797 project took a step closer to becoming reality this week when a Chief Project Engineer (CPE) was appointed. The brand new airliner, designed to fit between the 737 and 787 family will be the first all-new airliner from Boeing since the 787 Dreamliner. Former 777X chief project engineer [read more]
If you are looking for a job that will involve you seeing the world, getting out of the office, presenting a challenge and most definitely is not 9-5 then how about becoming a Wingwalker? Gloucestershire based AeroSuperBatics are currently recruiting for that very unique-role and you have the chance to [read more]
Hungarian Low-Cost Carrier Wizz Air (W6/WZZ) have added 5 new destinations from London Luton (LTN/EGGW) for Summer 2018. The routes include daily flights from London Luton to Bratislava (BTS/LZIB), Slovakia and Larnaca (LCA/LCLK), Cyprus which begin 20th June and 30th May respectively. Other routes include a 3-times-weekly service to Lviv [read more]
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