Manchester Airport parent company, Manchester Airports Group (MAG), has become the latest airport operator to voice concern over the governments inaction on aviation. As we head to the Bank Holiday weekend, Manchester Airport is expecting to see just 25,000 passengers pass through its terminals, a fraction of the 115,000 on [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is adding 14 extra weekly flights from UK airports to Faro following the UK Governments decision to put Portugal back on the Coronavirus safe list. The move will make it easier for British holiday makers to travel to the Algarve without the need to quarantine [read more]
An investment group has acquired a stake in the St Athan based plane storage and dismantling specialists eCube Solutions. The investment from Baird Capital will allow eCube to continue its rapid growth, the company has recently opened a second operation in Castellon, Spain. Tim Schmidt, eCube CEO, says: “We are [read more]
Switzerland could be removed from the UK’s coronavirus safe travel list later this week according to sources. The alpine country has just passed the UK Goverments threshold of 20 cases per 100,000 people with latest figures putting Switzerland at 20.7. Neighbouring Austria was removed from the list along with Croatia [read more]
Kepler Aerospace has purchased former RAF VC10, ZA150, from the Brooklands Museum Trust with a view to returning it to flight as refuelling aicraft. ZA150 has been kept in a taxiable condition at Dunsfold Aerodrome by the Brooklands Trust but the decision was taken some time ago to dispose of [read more]
Cardiff Airport’s interim CEO, Spencer Birns, has joined calls for the UK Government to provide assistance to the Aviation industry and warned that without it they risk “more airlines going out of business and airports starting to close down as a result”. Wales’ only commercial airport has been severely impacted [read more]
Six US Air Force B52 Bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire this morning. The B52 is the US Air Forces (USAF) long-range strategic bomber and is regularly deployed to RAF Fairford for operations and exercises across Europe. The bombers have been deployed from Minot Air Base in North [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) is doubling flights to Aberdeen and Belfast from Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) from 7th September. The Aberdeen service will operate twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with an additional flight on Sundays. Belfast City will become twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with new weekend routes for leisure [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has announced that it will be closing the airports Terminal Two once again, just weeks after it reopened. The airport originally shut the terminal, along with Terminal Three during the lockdown period of the Coronavirus Pandemic when traffic fell to almost zero but reopened them both in [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has confirmed it is taking over full control of the Isle of Man to London City from British Airways from 1st September 2020. The route is already operated by Loganair but tickets are sold by British Airways. Loganair’s Chief commercial officer Kay Ryan said: “We understand the importance [read more]
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