Year: 2018

As reported last week, The Airbus A330-800, the shorter variant of new A330neo’s, is to take its first flight this week on Tuesday the 6th November. Weather permitting the A330-800 will take off from Toulouse around 09:30hrs on Tuesday morning for a flight expected to last a few hours. The [read more]

Thomas Cook Airlines (MT/TCX) together with the rest of the Thomas Cook Group is making a plastics pledge to remove single use plastic items from its operation. Under its #NoPlaceForPlastic campaign, the next 12 months will see the group aims to remove large volume items such as stirrers and straws [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it plans to press ahead with the closure of its Eindhoven base despite a court order blocking it from forcing its staff to transfer. The district court of Hertogenbosch ruled last week that Ryanair had not explained why the move was necessary and claimed [read more]

The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has confirmed that the wreckage of the Augusta Westland AW169 (G-VSKP) that crashed in Leicester last week has arrived at their headquarters in Farnborough. The crash killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others is being examined by the AAIB who have already downloaded [read more]

Aviation and aerospace add over £22 billion to the UK economy every year and in 2016, 268 million passengers passed through UK airports, an increase of 50% since 2000.  Air freight is a critical business with 2.4 million tonnes of freight transported by air each year with a value of [read more]

Tickets to the Royal Navy International Air Day 2019 have gone on sale today. Formerly known as Yeovilton Air Day, the airshow will celebrate modern and historical Air Power in its many forms not least its central role for Maritime Capability and for the capabilities of our sister services, the [read more]

Birmingham (BHX/EGBB), East Midlands (EMA/EGNX) and London Southend (SEN/EGMC) scooped the best airports in their respective sizes at the annual Airport Operators Association Awards. Birmingham won the over 10 million passenger category beating off competition from airports such as London Gatwick and Manchester to get the top spot while East [read more]

Sources close to Airbus have said that the Airbus A330-800neo could begin its certification program as early as next week after undergoing ground testing this week. The ground tests included testing the British made Rolls Royce Trent 7000 engines on the initial aircraft. The aircraft will need to carry out [read more]