The UK Government is set to open the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme for English Airports in response to desperate calls for help from the industry. Aviation minister Robert Courts made the announcement saying that is was in response to the closure of air travel corridors from 04:00 tomorrow. [read more]
There has only ever been two fatal accidents involving Supersonic Transport (SST) aircraft and in a bizarre twist of fate, despite happening 27 years apart, they happened less than 4 miles apart. Two supersonic airlines have been built and flown, The anglo-french designed Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev TU-144, dubbed [read more]
The Airport Operators Association (AOA), which represents UK airports, has warned that airports may have to close without government assistance following the removal of safe travel corridors. Some of airports in the UK have seen an almost complete drop in traffic as a result of the Coronvirus pandemic and even [read more]
The UK Government is set to close all coronavirus travel corridors between the UK and other countries from 04:00hrs on Monday 18th January. The move means that all passengers arriving into the UK from Monday will need to quarantine for 10 days, which can be reduced to 5 if a [read more]
Scotland’s Court of Appeal has rejected both grounds of appeal that were lodged by the family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi following a review found that there may have been a miscarriage of justice. Former Libyan Intelligence Officer al-Megrahi is the only man ever convicted of the 1988 bombing on Pan Am [read more]
The UK is to ban air travel from South America and Portugal from 4am tomorrow morning amid fears of a new Brazilian variant of Coronavirus. Announcing the move on social media, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “I’ve taken the urgent decision to BAN ARRIVALS from ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA, CAPE VERDE, [read more]
The UK has pushed back its requirement for all passengers arrving into England to have proof of a negative COVID test 72-hours prior to arrival. The rules were originally due to come into force today but have now been pushed back to Monday 18th January. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced [read more]
Norwegian is to end its trans-Atlantic and Asian long-haul network as part of its restructuring process resulting in over 1,000 job losses at Gatwick Airport. The airline group which has been struggling to weather the pandemic is closing Gatwick based Norwegian Air UK which operated flights to the US, Singapore, [read more]
Due to the global pandemic Airbus found it had a problem with delivering aircraft dipping to just 14 deliveries in April 2020 so in a bid to keep deliveries flowing, Airbus developed an e-delivery system to help speed up aircraft deliveries. The system, which allows customers to receive their aircraft [read more]
Members of the public in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and London have reported hearing a sonic boom as RAF Typhoon aircraft raced to intercept a private jet over London. Two Eurofighter Typhon aircraft launched from RAF Coningsby earlier today under the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) defence system in order to [read more]
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