Cotswold Airport (GBA/EGBP) has announced that it will launch its 2018 Aviation Scholarship applications from Monday 22nd January. The hugely successful scholarship has been running for 10 years and sees the 10 successful applicants will undertake a 2-week scholarship including flight training along with visits to aviation industry sites including Bristol Airport. [read more]
Singapore Airlines is celebrating 1 year of using the Airbus A350 at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The state-of-the-art aircraft from European planemaker Airbus first arrived to operate the non-stop Manchester-Houston route on 17 January 2017 and was the first commercial A350 flight from the Airport. The A350 aircraft was a welcome addition [read more]
Travelling from Cardiff to Sydney used to mean going to Heathrow or Manchester first but not anymore. Thanks to Qatar Airways starting its daily Doha service on the 1st May now has never been a better time to book that dream trip to Australia from your local airport. The vibrant [read more]
London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) has launched a 10-week expansion consultation in order to get feedback about the three options that have been shortlisted. The new plans set out potential locations to expand terminal infrastructure to the east of Terminal 2, the west of Terminal 5, or a new satellite terminal [read more]
Blue Air has announced it will begin a Liverpool to Malaga service for summer 2018. The Romanian carrier has the put the twice-weekly service on sale and will begin the route on the 5th June 2018. It will run until 27th September. Located in southern Spain, Malaga is a popular [read more]
The Army will bid farewell to the Lynx Helicopter today as they carry out a special final Lynx flight around the UK today. The Lynx helicopter has been in service with the Army since 1978 and has seen service in Bosnia, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. It has been used [read more]
Aeros Flight Training have named the pilot involved in last weeks fatal accident in Worcestershire. John Smith (52) is described by Aeros as “highly experienced, very popular with both his colleagues and his students” and was “enthusiastic”. The flight training school went on to say that Mr Smith had joined them [read more]
It’s no secret that the Airbus A380 has been on life support for some time with Airbus cutting production but Airbus has now admitted that if it doesn’t get a new order from Emirates it will have to kill the A380 project. Emirates was widely expected to place an order for 50 [read more]
Innovate UK, the business funding agency arm of Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, is consulting with businesses about future investments in aviation and where they should be made to create efficiencies in the way we move people and goods. Inverness plays host to the final consultation workshop on [read more]
VLM Airlines has announced it will begin flights from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGDBB) to Antwerp (ANR/EBAW) from the 12th February 2018. Belgian based VLM Airlines (VO/TCW) will operate a daily weekday service (Mon-Fri) between the two cities using a Fokker 50 aircraft. The port city of Antwerp is on Belgium’s River [read more]
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