Month: October 2019

With Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) ending its London to Auckland via Los Angeles service from October 2020, the time has never been better to use your local airport to fly to New Zealand. Direct flights have never (and not likely to be any time soon) an option to New Zealand [read more]

Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) is ending its one of its flagship routes, NZ1 from London to Los Angeles, in October 2020 after 36 years of operating it. The move comes as the Auckland based airline says it is accelerating its ambitions into North America leading it to make “difficult decisions” [read more]

TUI UK has announced a raft of new destinations and flights from UK regional airports including Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth and Manchester for Summer 2020. The announcements come as the UK’s leading holiday company embarks on its biggest summer season ever with an extra 2 million seats available across the [read more]

Loganair (LM/LOG) and Flybe (BE/BEE) have announced that they are entering into a new codeshare agreement which will allow customers to book flights via either airline. The deal comes 2 years after Flybe and Loganair ended their franchise agreement, something which sparked Loganair’s rapid growth as a leading regional airline [read more]

Scandinavian and UK based low-cost carrier Norwegian.com has said it intends to team up with US low-cost carrier JetBlue with an interline agreement. An interline agreement between the two carriers will allow passengers to book tickets across both airlines from the same source meaning that you could fly from Gatwick [read more]

Swiss International Airlines (LX/SWR) has resumed operations with its fleet of Airbus A220 aircraft after grounding them yesterday for urgent engine checks. Around 100 flights were cancelled when the fleet was grounded following an incident on a flight between London and Geneva which made an emergency diversion to Paris. The [read more]

Vale of Glamorgan based Caerdav (formerly Cardiff Aviation) haas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Arab Emirates based MOBH Group to create a major new aviation centre in South Wales. The deal will see Caerdav setup and run a ‘centre of excellence’ for commercial aviation training at the [read more]

The Flybe name is set to disappear from airports in 2020 as new owners, Connect Airways Ltd, rebrand the airline as Virgin Connect. As we reported earlier this year, the new owners had always planned to rebrand the regional airline after rescuing it from near collapse and the new name [read more]