Chloe Haines (26) has pleaded guilty to endangering an aircraft and assault by beating at Chelmsford Crown Court today. The case relates to an incident on a Jet2 flight from Turkey which caused it to be intercepted by RAF Typhoon Aircraft and to be diverted. Ms Haines has ready been [read more]
Rolls-Royce has unveiled the aircraft it plans to use to attempt to set a speed record in excess of 300mph in 2020. The aircraft is part of a Rolls-Royce project dubbed ACCEL (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight) was unveiled at Gloucestershire Airport and will now be fitted with its electrical [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) will move its Dundee to London service to London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) from March 2020. The Public Service Obligation (PSO) route currently connects Dundee to the UK’s capital via Stansted but the move to London City will put those flying on the route directly into the heart of [read more]
The addition of a third runway at London Heathrow Aiport (LHR/EGLL) will be delayed by at least 1 year and up to 3 years after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) rejected the spending plans. Heathrow Airport had asked the CAA to lift its spending from £650m to £2.4bn which the [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) will become the only airline flying direct from the UK to Portland, Oregon all year round when it launches its new direct service on 1st June 2020. The new route to Portland (PDX/KPDX) will operate 5 times-per-week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from London Heathrow [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced a new route from London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) to Girona, Spain. The route will operate twice-weekly from April 2020 forming part of the Summer 2020 schedule at what is rapidly becoming a key airport for Ryanair. Ryanair’s Eimear Ryan said: “Ryanair is pleased to [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has recently reported its Summer passenger numbers which show that the airport not only achieved the busiest single day in its history but over the summer 19.9 million people used the airport. During August, over 100,000 passengers a day used the airport and the summer peaked on [read more]
US Airframer Boeing has said it will suspend production of its 737 Max aircraft next month. Boeing had continued with the production of the model which has been grounded for the last 9 months following two fatal crashes of the type linked to a flaw in the flight control software. [read more]
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced a number of route and service upgrades for 2020 including two new international routes from Scotland. Both new routes are from Edinburgh Airport (EDI/EGPH) and are a five-times-weekly service to Hanover, Germany and a three-times-weekly service to Esbjerg, Denmark. Other service upgrades include the [read more]
Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) has announced that it has selected Airbus aircraft to form the backbone of its Project Sunrise project to operate regular non-stop flights from Australia to London and New York. The airline has selected Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft which is great news for the United Kingdom as not [read more]
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