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]
Channel Islands Air Search CIAS) has completed the acceptance programme of its brand new mission equipped Britten Norman BN2B-20 Islander. Britten Norman developed aircraft in partnership with CIAS to create a bespoke aircraft that was mission equipped to fulfil the needs of the services 24-hour rapid response. The new aircraft [read more]
TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) is adding several new winter routes from UK airports including Bristol, Birmingham, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, London Stansted and Manchester. The new routes include the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, Moroccan hotspot Agadir and the Alpine town of Chambery. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) sees a new service to Memmingen, Germany [read more]
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said it has found a “potential risk” with the Boeing 737 Max which it says must be rectified before the flight test program can commence. The Boeing 737 Max is currently grounded worldwide as a result of two fatal accidents linked it’s Maneuvering [read more]
An event for aspiring pilots being held in Manchester next weekend could help meet the projected demand of 148,000 new pilots that will be needed across Europe over the next two decades. Pilot Careers Live North will give those attending a chance to find out if the career is right [read more]
The latest Boeing 747-400 to be retired by British Airways (BA/BAW) has arrived at St Athan (DGX/EGSY) in South Wales where it will be scrapped. G-BNLN (Lima November) took off for her final flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) this afternoon as “Speedbird 9179” and flew the short hop to South [read more]
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