Month: January 2020

Planning Officers from North Somerset Council have recommended that the council approves the planned expansion at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD). If approved the expansion will see Bristol Airport increase its a capacity to 12 million passengers per year through improved infrastructure and facilities at the airport. The plans received over 2,200 [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has suspended flights to Shanghai and Beijing with immediate effect following Foreign Office advice not to travel to the region. We understand that British Airways staff in China are being flown back to the UK. The move is a response to the Coronavirus outbreak in China which [read more]

Romanian carrier Blue Air (0B/BMS) is launching a direct service between Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) and the Romanian city of Bacău (BCM/LRBC). The route will commence on the 15th June 2020 and will be operated by a Boeing 737. The new route to Birmingham is part of a group of six [read more]

Two of Loganair’s cabin crew members Michelle White, 52, and Laura Moore, 51 welcomed passengers on board the airlines Glasgow to Stornoway flight last Friday afternoon. That in itself is nothing to write a story about but as it turns out, Michelle and Laura are old friends and former colleagues [read more]

Ryanair’s Cheif Executive Officer Michael O’Leary has accused the government of being misleading in its bailout of struggling regional airline Flybe. In an open letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, Mr O’Learly calls Flybe a “loss-making turkey” saying it was not a “viable business with genuine short-term difficulties” [read more]

The UK Government has called in financial experts as they look to provide bailout loan to struggling regional airline Flybe rumoured to be in excess of £100m. According to Sky News financial restructuring experts, Alvarez & Marsal have been brought in to work out the terms of the deal for [read more]

Uttlesford District Council has voted to reject expansion plans for London Stansted Airport (STN/EGSS) despite planning officers recommending approval of the project. The plans would have included improvements to the airport layout and infrastructure to allow the airport to handle 43 million passengers per year, an increase from the current [read more]

It was 3rd time lucky for Boeing today as they finally carried out the first flight of the latest 777 variant, the Boeing 777-9, 3 days later than planned. The first flight was streamed live by Boeing with a video being tweeted of the take-off. The first Boeing #777X is [read more]