Year: 2019

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) will keep its Airbus A340-600 aircraft flying a bit longer than its planned 26th October retirement date. The Airbus A340-600 will now continue to operate to flights to Delhi and New York until 8th December according to updated schedules listings. Some Virgin Atlantic were brought out of [read more]

Norwegian Air Shuttle has had the imminent financial pressure lifted by its bondholders agreeing to an extension on maturity. The trustees held separate bondholders’ meetings for NAS07 and NAS08 unsecured bonds and reported that at both meetings the vote went in favour for the proposed amendments. The amendments mean that [read more]

Thomas Cook will seek a delay to a key bondholders’ meeting on Wednesday as it tries to finalise a £1bn rescue package in a bid to prevent the UK’s oldest tour operator from collapsing. The collapse of Thomas Cook could leave thousands of holidays makers seeking alternative arrangements or having [read more]

Coffee that was spilt onto the Audio Communications Panel (ACP) caused smoke and fumes to appear in the cockpit on-board a Thomas Cook A330 aircraft (G-TCCF) mid-Atlantic. The report by the Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) said that the flight on 6th February 2019 was forced to divert to Shannon [read more]

London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has enjoyed its busiest summer ever with 5.3 million passengers passing through the airport in August alone. The airport says that the most popular destinations included Malaga, Barcelona, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca and Tel-Aviv. Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said: “The summer period is always a [read more]

I had a lazy morning on September 11 2001, I was having a lay-in after a previous night at work and just watching the news in bed when suddenly, everything changed. A newsflash broke on BBC news that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. [read more]

Growing regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has announced that it is launching six new routes from UK airports in 2020 including its first route from Wales. The new routes are the latest to be announced under Loganair’s ‘Where next?’ programme, which is designed to expand the airline’s route network across the [read more]

Hundreds of British Airways flights have been cancelled today as the airlines pilots start a two day walkout in a dispute over pay and conditions. The strike began at midnight local time and over 1700 flights have already been cancelled as a result and British Airways is advising passengers not [read more]