Year: 2018

Garuda Indonesia (GA/GIA) is resuming its London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Jakarta (CGK/WIII) service from the 27th November 2018. The flight returns as a three-times weekly non-stop service and will be operated by a Boeing 777-300 aircraft. The Skyteam Alliance member previously suspended the service at the end of October and [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is inviting teachers to take part in work experience days across the company including Operations, Engineering and in the airport terminals. Having  already offered over 600 work experience places to children this year, British Airways recognises the role that teachers play inspiring children in their future careers [read more]

Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has teamed up with Poppyscotland and The Royal British Legion to offer a discount armed forces personnel, past and present. Serving members, veterans and members of the armed forces community will now get a 10% discount off Loganair’s core air fares and flights can be booked [read more]

Isreali carrier El Al has announced it is launching a direct service between Tel Aviv (TLV/LLBG) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC). The three-times weekly service will be operated by a Boeing 737-800 and fly on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from the 29th May 2019. Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport is located between [read more]

French Authorities seized a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 at Bordeaux Airport (BOD/LFBD) earlier today in a row over money. Ryanair is said to owe nearly £427,000 after the subsidies it received from Angouleme regional airport between 2008 and 2009 were deemed illegal by the European Commission. The aircraft was due to operate [read more]

Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier is to 5000 jobs across its global business over the next year and a half. Some 3000 of those jobs will go at its facilities in Canada while the remaining 2000 will go other sites across the company including some at its aircraft facility [read more]

A report into the fatal mid-air collision of two air aircraft last year has concluded that while they aircraft had limited opportunity to see each other, technology could have helped prevent the accident. On the 17th November 2017 a Cessna 152 (G-WACG) and Guimbrai Cabri Helicopter (G-JAMM) collided in mid-air [read more]

Boeing has issued a bulletin to airlines on the subject of erroneous data from angle-of-attack sensors on its Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The bulletin comes in response to the initial investigations into the Lion Air 737 Max crash in Indonesia last week that killed 189 people. Boeing says the bulletin, [read more]