Airports and ground handling companies in England are set to recieve up to £8 million in Government help as the Airport Support Scheme comes online. As we reported earlier this month, the government announced the Airport Support Scheme last year and then more recently said it would be in place [read more]
France is set to close its borders to non-EU nationals in tough new border restrictions as Coronavirus cases in the country remain some of the highest in Europe. The move closes the country to all non-Europeans from Sunday unless their travel is absolutely necessary although the French prime minister Jean [read more]
easyJet (U2/EZY) cabin crew are being trained under a fast track scheme to become NHS Vaccinators following an offer of help to the UK Government was accepted. The airline made the offer to support the national vaccination programme and has over 3000 crew who are first aid trained and security [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is to join its Oneworld partner American Airlines in trailing Verifly, A digital health passport app designed to allow passengers to easily verify Covid-19 test certificates before they fly. The trial is set to begin on 4th February and will initially be available only on the airline’s [read more]
Gloucestershire Airport Ltd, which owns and operates Gloucestershire Airport (GLO/EGBJ), has appointed Karen Taylor as its new Managing Director. The airport is a key Business and General Aviation airport which is used for executive travel as well as pilot training and is vital to the local economy. Ms Taylor was [read more]
Flights from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including the popular transit points of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, to the UK will be banned from tomorrow (Friday 29th January) as new countries are adding to the UK’s no-fly list. The UAE joins Burundi and Rwanda on the UK’s red list which [read more]
In a stroke of good news after months of border closures and travel bans, India is allowing UK flights into the country once more. Hardeep Singh Puri, the civil aviation minister, announced on 1 January that flights between India and the UK would resume starting 8 January. This comes shortly [read more]
Sources close to Air Transat have said that the airline is laying off swathes of flight crew as it cancels flights to and from Toronto. Montreal based Air Transat is Canada’s third-largest airline and is citing Canadian government travel restrictions as the reason for the flight cuts which will last [read more]
A Pegasus Airlines Airbus A320neo (TC-NBH) has landed at an airport in France with its nose gear twisted by 90 degrees in an incident similar to one in LAX some years ago. The flight (PC939) had operated from Istanbul to Basel-Mulhouse where it landed and due to the position of [read more]
The Boeing 737 Max has had its mandatory grounding in Europe ended as the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) clears the type to return to service. The beleaguered 737 Max family was grounded following two fatal crashes linked to its MCAS system which was designed to counteract the affects of [read more]
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