A Laudamotion flight to Austria has been evacuated on the runway after performing a rejected take-off (RTO) at London Stansted (STN/EGSS)airport this evening. It is not yet clear what caused the pilot to reject the take-off but Twitter user Sam Long (@slongy20) posted an image of the slides deployed on [read more]
British Airways’ Landor livery was perhaps the most iconic of all their liveries and it will be the third one in the fleet of retro jets marking the 100th Anniversary of the airline. Boeing 747-400 G-BNLY is being repainted in Dublin and will carry the iconic livery and the name [read more]
The parent company of British Airways, International Airlines Group (IAG) has signed a deal with Boeing for the purchase of 42 Boeing 777X aircraft. The deal, worth around $18.6bn at list prices, consists of 18 orders and 24 options for the Boeing 777-9, the worlds largest twinjet airliner. In a [read more]
A Flybe flight from Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE) to Alicante (ALC/LEAL) was evacuated this morning after the pilot reported a problem with the “air conditioning” as the aircraft was about to take off. Flight BE4321, operated by Embraer ERJ195 G-FBEJ, had lined already lined up on the runway when there were [read more]
Fears of a conflict between India and Pakistan have been raised following the closure of Pakistans airspace today forcing airlines not to overfly the region leading to flight delays across Europe. Flights between Southern Asia and Europe that would normally overfly the region are routing south over the Arabian Sea [read more]
Flight Sharing has been described as the “uber of the sky” but now services such as Wingly & Coavmi are firmly under the spotlight following the death of Emiliano Sala in a plane crash earlier this year. The latest special bulletin into the accident of Piper Malibu N264DB released by [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has confirmed its new London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Tel Aviv (TLV/LLBG) direct flight will start on the 25th September 2019. The daily service will be operated by an Airbus A330-300 with a flight time of just under 5 hours. Speaking about the new route Shai Weiss, Virgin [read more]
Blue Island Airways (SI/BCI) will launch a new direct service between Jersey, Channel Islands (JER/EGJJ) and Newquay, Cornwall (NQY/EGHQ) from 3rd June 2019. The three-time-weekly flight will operate under its partnership with Flybe and will use flight numbers BE6540/6541. It will be operated by a Blue Island Airways ATR42 turboprop [read more]
Some Thomas Cook customers who have booked flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) this summer have been forced to take alternative flights after the Airline decided to cut several flights from the schedule. Passengers have been offered new flights, in many cases from rival Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) after they were contacted [read more]
Just days after announcing it would replace the FlyBMI service from Aberdeen to the Danish city of Esbjerg Loganair (LM/LOG) now faces competition on the route from Danish Air Transport (DX/DTR). The Danish airline has announced it will operate a direct service from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ/EGPD) to Esbjerg (EBJ/EKEB) using [read more]
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