Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) has said it will resume flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) from 1st July 2020. Initially the airline will only be operating to Olso and Copenhagen from the UK cities but will announce more routes as the summer moves on. Since the outbreak of [read more]
The wife of First Lieutenant Kenneth “Kage” Allen has lead tributes after the US Air Force officially named Lt Allen as the pilot killed in Mondays F15 Crash in the North Sea. Hannah Allen described her husband as “perfect” adding that she had “never been treated with more love and [read more]
Hungarian Airline Wizz Air (W6/WZZ) has announced that it will open a new base in the Romanian city of Bacău. The base at George Enescu International Airport (BCM/LRBC) will be the Seventh in the country consolidating Wizz Air’s position as the No1 operator in Romania. Routes from Bacău will include [read more]
British and European Pilots working for Qatar Airways are set to see a 25% cut in salary as the airline sets out a pay reduction scheme that will apply only to foreign flight deck crew. An internal document seen by us (dated 4th June) from Chief Flight Operations Officer, Captain [read more]
The Unite Union, which represents the majority of British Airways Staff are planning a vote of no confidence in British Airways CEO Alex Cruz. The moves comes after he said the Transport Select Commitee’s report on the aviation sector as fuelled by “rumours and emotions” rather than fact and that [read more]
A US Air Force (USAF) F15 Eagle has crashed into the North sea off the Yorkshire Coast. A search and rescue operation was put into action near Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. Later in the day, Col. Will Marshall, Commanding Officer of the 48th Fighter Wing confirmed that the body of [read more]
A report by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has branded British Airways as a ‘national disgrace’ over its plans to fire all 42,000 employees and rehire 30,000 of them under new contracts with lower pay. The report which was published today recognises that the industry has been badly [read more]
According to a letter seen by us, British Airways (BA/BAW) is offering Voluntarily Redundancy to Cabin Crew on older, more expensive contacts. Currently, British Airways has cabin crew on three different contracts Worldwide, Eurofleet and Mixed Fleet. Recent entrants to the company went on to Mixed Fleet which has a [read more]
The union representing British Airways Cabin Crew, Ground Staff and Engineers has said it has approached the European Commission to object to the take of Spanish airline Air Europa by British Airways parent International Airlines Group (IAG). It was reported earlier this week that IAG had a agreed a deal [read more]
The third of Airbus’ giant transport aircraft, the Beluga XL has left the paint shop ahead of its entry into service with Airbus Transport International (ATI). The Beluga XL is used to transport Airbus components such as fuselage sections and Wings between the manufacturing sites such as Broughton, North Wales [read more]
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