Online cheap flights specialist Netflights has launched a petition in the hopes of persuading Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) to rename the airport after Aviatrix Amy Johnson. According to Netflights, the timing is right for the change as the airport has revealed updated plans for a brand new terminal to complete [read more]
Airlines look set to get a temporary exemption from having to utilise 80% of their slots in order to keep them. Secretay of State for Transport Grant Shapps MP recently wrote to Airport Coordination Limited (ACL) asking them to reconsider the rules on slot utilisation during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. [read more]
RAF Lossiemouth has released more information about yesterdays afternoons interception of two Russian TU-142 Bear along the west coast of the UK. The RAF Launched Quick Reaction Alert aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept the aircraft which flew around the North of Scotland before heading down the West Coast of [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) will be operating as an independent airline again following the collapse of Flybe last week. The airline had previously operated as a Flybe Franchise partner with tickets being sold via the Flybe website but the collapse left many passengers due to fly on Eastern Airways flights in [read more]
Col. Nicole Malachowski (Ret’d) has served an inspiration to many women in aviation with her glass-ceiling breaking achievements in the US Air Force (USAF) and being the first women selected for the USAF Thunderbirds Display Team. Col. Malachowskis flying career started when she obtained her private pilot’s licence in high [read more]
The UK Governmennt has confirmed that the UK will leave the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) at the end of the Brexit transition period. EASA is responsible for certifying aircrews and aircraft across European and when it was formed in 2002, largely adopted regulations set out by the UK’s Civil [read more]
The National Police Air Service (NPAS) has announced that four new bespoke aircraft are being added to the fleet. Based out of the NPAS base at Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) the aircraft will operate across the UK tasked in a similar way to the Helicopter fleet. The aircraft, Vulcanair P68, [read more]
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has stepped in to safeguard 16 key routes that were left without an operator when Flybe collapsed yesterday. The new routes will see Loganair add nearly 400 flights per week to its schedule. The routes are all Loganair’s hubs at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Newcastle [read more]
Several key regional airports have been left decimated by the collapse of regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) in the early hours of this morning. As a regional airline, Flybe connected smaller airports across the UK with some having over 90% reliance on the brand. Southampton Airport (SOU/EGHI) In 2019, 95% of [read more]
Struggling regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) has entered administration tonight after failing to reach a rescue deal with its shareholders or the UK Government. In a statement, Flybe said: “CEO Mark Anderson has expressed his deep regret that, after making every possible attempt to secure the airline’s long-term future, Flybe has [read more]
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