Year: 2020

In as disastrous day for the UK travel industry the UK’s neighbour Ireland is set to impose a blockade on flights and ferry travel from mainland UK. Initially, the restrictions will be imposed for 48 hours before being reviewed by the Irish government on Tuesday. The restrictions come just hours [read more]

Italy, Belgium and Holland have banned air travel from the UK following the outbreak of a mutated Coronavirus strain which is seemingly more contagious. Germany & France are also understood to be considering banning air travel from the UK. The ban means that no flights will be allowed to land [read more]

BETAFPV has launched the SMO 4K, a lightweight action camera designed for mounting on First Person View (FPV) Drones. The camera, which weighs just 30g, uses Insta360 FlowState stabilization technology to get an ultra-smooth video of their flight. The camera is designed to provide an out of the box solution [read more]

RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland has been announced by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as the UK’s home for the E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft (AEW&C) aircraft. The MOD placed an order for five of the Boeing 737-700NG based surveillance aircraft in 2019 will replace the Boeing E-3D [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is shelving 15 long-haul destinations from its network as it streamlines its operations to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic. From 28th March 2021 (unless stated), flights to Pittsburgh Calgary, Charleston, Seoul, Durban, Dammam, Lima, Osaka, Kuala Lumpur, Seychelles (24th April 2021), Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Jeddah will all [read more]

Dublin based Aircraft Leasing specialist ABRIC has reached a conditional agreement with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) which allows the airline to return one of its leased ATR aircraft. The agreement will see PIA return an ATR72-500 to ABRIC with the contract being terminated provided PIA meets certain undisclosed conditions. The [read more]

Loganair (LM/LOG) now has a service between Scotlands two biggest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The 30min flight (including taxi time) will set you back around £94 but could see people avoiding having to drive on the M8 and then not having to worry about parking in either city. Travel from [read more]

Virgin Atlantic has begun a sale & leaseback program for two of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in order to free up around £70m in cash. The deal will see Griffin Global Asset Management, together with Bain Capital, purchase the two aircraft under an agreement that will see the aircraft lease [read more]