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Month: July 2018

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England

Major exercise taking place today at Manchester Airport

31/07/2018 Written by: Lisa Parkes
< 1 minute read

A major emergency exercise will take place today (31st July) to test the response to an aircraft accident in the Manchester Airport area. Manchester Airport says the exercise will take place in the Bollin Valley area and will see a large-scale response from the Airport and Emergency Services from both [read more]

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News

Ryanair face fresh strikes, this time by German pilots

31/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

Budget Irish airline Ryanair has been battered by industrial action lately by its pilots in Ireland and cabin crew in Belgium, Spain and Portugal resulting in hundreds of flights being cancelled. It now faces a fight on a new front after German pilots from the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union voted in favour [read more]

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Engineering, Leasing & Finance

First Ultra-Long Range A350 XWB rolls out of paintshop

30/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

The first Ultra-Long Range (ULR) Airbus A350 XWB has emerged out of the paint shop in full Singapore Airliners livery today. MSN220 is the first of Seven A350-900 ULR for the Singapore Airlines who plan to use it on routes including Singapore to New York with which it will reclaim its [read more]

News

Ryanair Strike: Claim compensation says UK regulator

30/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
3 minute read

The UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has made a statement setting out & clarifying the right to compensation for UK passengers caught up in the recent Ryanair strikes. The Irish budget airline has been hit by strikes from Pilots in Ireland and Cabin crew in Belgium, Spain and [read more]

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Civil Aviation

Thomas Cook makes changes to US West Coast Services

29/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
< 1 minute read

Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is making changes to its US West Coast services from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for Summer 2019. The airline had previously planned to operate a 3 times-per-week flight to Los Angeles from May 2019 but this has now been reduced to a twice-weekly service from 21st June 2019. [read more]

Easyjet new routes to France
New Routes

Easyjet launches first of four new routes from Southend

27/07/2018 Written by: Roger Davis
< 1 minute read

Low-cost carrier Easyjet has launched the first of its four new routes from London Southend. The flight to Bordeaux, France which took off yesterday afternoon is the first of four to launch this summer and will also see a new aircraft at the base. The Bordeaux flight will operate 3 times [read more]

Passengers in airport
Features

Charging to drop people off at an airport, is it right?

26/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
4 minute read

Looking across social media we see many complaints about being charged to drop off and pick up passengers at UK airports with some people having to pay several pounds just to stop near the terminal to drop off family or friends for a flight. In order to look at this as [read more]

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News

British Drone sets world record for longest continuous flight

26/07/2018 Written by: Pete Harrison
2 minute read

Yesterday July 25th 2018, Zephyr, the British military Drone built by Qinetic and Airbus Defense and Space at Farnborough has broken the world record for the longest continuous flight. The Zephyr took off on July 11th and is still up in the stratosphere at 56,700ft above Arizona in the USA. [read more]

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England

British Airways to launch direct Pittsburgh connection

26/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
< 1 minute read

British Airways (BA/BAW) has confirmed it will be launching a direct service to Pittsburgh (PIT/KPIT) from Spring 2019. The flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) will operate 4 times-per-week year-round from 2nd April 2019 using a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. The flight will be the UK’s only direct connection to the city. [read more]

News

Ryanair issues redundancy notices to Irish Pilots

25/07/2018 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

Irish budget airline Ryanair has issued 90-day redundancy notices to 100 pilots and 200 crew at its Dublin base as it plans to transfer aircraft to Poland from the 28th October. Dublin has been hit by three strikes this month by Pilots of the Irish Airline Pilots Association in a [read more]

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