The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has said it has sent a team to West Sussex to investigate an accident involving an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or Drone. Not much is known about the nature of the accident which happened near Goodwood yesterday. The Goodwood Estate is currently hosting the Festival [read more]
After at least two false starts, flights have finally got underway at Carlisle Lake District Airport today for the first time in 25 years. The airport, which is owned by the Stobart Group, will see flights to Dublin, London Southend and Belfast operated by Loganair (LM/LOG). It is hoped that [read more]
Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has been forced to cancel some flights to Kirkwall airport on Friday 5th July and change the flight times on Saturday 6th July as the airport is closing early due to unforeseen staffing problems. As a result, the airline has been forced to make changes [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) new PremiAir service has started taking bookings ahead of its launch later this year. PremiAir is designed to give passengers flying on scheduled flights that private jet experience with a private terminal containing exclusive lounges and food made fresh to order. The packages also include VIP transfer [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has seen its traffic grow in June 2019 compared to June 2018. The first full summer month saw 13.6m passengers use Ryanair compared to 12.6m in the same period last year, up 8%. The trend was continued across the Ryanair Group which overall saw traffic [read more]
A Twitter user who claims to be a “beauty influencer” has hit the headlines on BBC Newsbeat claiming that her sister was denied boarding after being “racially profiled” by Flybe. @flybe So my little sister and her friends were refused boarding from your flight attendants & her supersvisors because she [read more]
Boeing has rolled out its latest ecoDemonstrator aircraft, a Boeing 777, which will serve as a flying test bed for over 50 projects. Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program is flight test research program of aircraft company Boeing, which has used a series of specially modified aircraft to develop and test aviation technologies [read more]
From March 2020, EI380 and 381 between London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and Shannon (SNN/EINN) will be operated by Aer Lingus’ newest aircraft, the Airbus A321LR. The A321LR will be operation transatlantic services for the Irish carrier but like most airlines, when a new aircraft comes into service it is used on [read more]
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