Visitors to the Wales National Airshow held annually in Swansea Bay always get a superb day out but now, they will get a superb evening too. Day 1 of this years airshow will see a special evening of entertainment that will feature Hot Air Balloons and night-time aerobatics thanks to [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has been ordered to pay 8 Dutch pilots between 380,000 – 480,000 euros following a ruling by the court of the Den Bosch district. The decision comes after the court ruled that there was no likelihood of “purposeful continuation” of employment for the pilots after [read more]
Rapidly expanding Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it will commence scheduled flights from East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) from September 2019. Lognair will initially launch flights to Brussels and Inverness from East Midlands. Brussels will operate morning and afternoon rotations from Monday to Thursday and a daily rotation on [read more]
Anyone with an interest in helicopters, especially historical helicopters, will have seen the amazing progress that’s been made by the team restoring XT761, a Navy Wessex HU5. It was taken from component parts through to being airworthy again, and flying for the first time on the 1st March 2019. Now [read more]
US budget airline JetBlue (B6/JBU) has announced it will launch direct flights to London from New York JFK and Boston airports. The airline hasn’t disclosed details of which London Airport will be served by the new services which the airline is planning to launch in 2021. It made the announcement [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) lined up all four of its specially painted retro jets at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) yesterday to celebrate a milestone for the heritage fleet. The occasion marked the 50,000th customer to fly on one of the four heritage aircraft which were introduced into the fleet over the course [read more]
Jet2 (LS/EXS) has been rated the best UK airline by leading review site, Tripadvisor. The Leeds-Bradford based airline has a score of 4.5 out of 5 from 20,428 reviews with reviewers rating the airline highly for value for money and check in processes. Jet2 operates scheduled and charter flights to [read more]
Boeing CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, has released a video statement saying he was “sorry for the deaths” following two fatal Boeing 737 Max accidents that have been linked to Boeing’s MCAS system. The statement came after the preliminary report into the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 in March which [read more]
Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is celebrating 40 years of flying between Glasgow (GLA/EGPF), Scotland and Derry (LDY/EGAE), Northern Ireland. April 1979 saw the airline fly its first flight between the two airports using a de-Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter with 19 seats and to celebrate the milestone, the airline recreated [read more]
Flybe is to close its ejet bases at Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Doncaster (DSA/EGCN) Airports and end ejet flights from Exeter (EXT/EGTE) and Norwich Airports (NWI/EGSH) at the end of Summer 2019. In documents seen by us, the airline has told its pilots that the decision follows a “critical review of the [read more]
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