London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has just recorded its busiest February on record with 1.2m passengers passing through its terminal, a 13.1% rise over the previous February. Luton Airport is not home to Easyjet (U2/EZY) and TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) it is also a major base for Ryanair (FR/RYR) and Wizz [read more]
The pilot who crashed a Hawker Hunter during a display at the 2015 Shoreham Airshow has been acquitted of manslaughter. Andy Hill was charged with the manslaughter of 11 people following an investigation by Sussex Police but a jury at the Old Bailey found the 54 year old not guilty. [read more]
While maybe not as famous as Amy Johnson or Amelia Earhart, for International Women’s Day 2019 we take a look at a female aviation pioneer who broke records throughout her career, Jean Batten CBE. Born on the 15th September 1909, Jean Gardner Batten began her life in Rotorua, New Zealand [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) along with Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) has been awarded the accolade of being the best airports in Europe in the 5-15million passengers category. The awards come from the Airports Council International (ACI) and are based on passengers services. ACI benchmarks passengers’ satisfaction across 37 key performance indicators and [read more]
Going paperless is a good thing, having a digital audit trail not only makes it easy to trace things but using no paper is great for the environment so meet Centrik, the company that is helping Airlines worldwide to do just that. Centrik is based at Biggin Hill in Kent, [read more]
The organisers of the Farnborough International Airshow have said that they will no longer be organising a public display as part of the biennial event. The event will now focus solely on the 5 trade days of the airshow where manufacturers from across Aerospace demonstrate their products to potential buyers [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) unveiled its latest retrojet at London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) this morning and just like the BOAC 747, it drew a crowd. The latest livery to be revived from history is that of BEA and it is being proudly worn by Airbus A319 G-EUPJ. British European Airways (BEA) [read more]
50 years ago today Concorde, the worlds first and only Supersonic airline, took to the skies for the first time from the Toulouse, France. Concorde 001 (F-WTSS) flew on the 2nd March 1969 and carried out a test flight lasting 27 minutes. It was the aircraft that carried out most [read more]
Liberal newspaper “The Independent” has been caught spreading fake news about a supposed near-miss at 35,000ft. The newspaper posted a video online that it claimed showed a near miss at 35,000ft. The video involved an Aer Lingus flight and and another four engine aircraft of an unknown airline. Under the [read more]
A Laudamotion flight to Austria has been evacuated on the runway after performing a rejected take-off (RTO) at London Stansted (STN/EGSS)airport this evening. It is not yet clear what caused the pilot to reject the take-off but Twitter user Sam Long (@slongy20) posted an image of the slides deployed on [read more]
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