European aerospace giant, Airbus has doubled its profit forecast for 2021 following a stronger than expected 1st half of 2021. The Toulouse headquartered company originally forecast an end of year profit of €2bn but this has now been increased to €4bn before interest and tax adjustments. Airbus’ deliveries of commercial [read more]
Isle of Wight based Britten-Normal has acquired a number of BN2T-4S Islander aircraft that have served with the UK’s Ministry of Defence under a short-term urgent operational requirement. The aircraft have been operating in a surveillance role under the military designation Defender 4000 (D4K) both in the UK and overseas. [read more]
Double-jabbed Passengers arriving from the United States of America and the EU will no longer need to self-isolate from next week. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that the UK Government will recognise US and EU digital and paper coronavirus vaccine certificates for those who have had approved vaccines. The new [read more]
Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it is canceling its Isle of Man to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) service from 11th August after the Isle of Man Government failed to agree on essential financial support for the route beyond July. The airline had stepped in following the collapse of Flybe [read more]
An inquiry has been launched by the Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) to explore the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on Scottish airports. The committee, which is chaired by SNP MP Pete Wishart, will look into the impact that covid-19 had on communities using airports in Scotland, many of which are [read more]
Figures released by the UK’s busiest airport, London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) show that it has lost £2.9bn since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The airport said that the first half if 2021 saw less than 4 million passengers passed through its terminals, something which would have been achieved in [read more]
easyJet (U2/EZE) is prepared for the begging of the 2021 summer holidays with schools in England breaking up this week and joining their Welsh & Scottish counterparts. The airline says that it expects to carry around 135,000 this weekend which is an almost 100% increase in 2020 but still far [read more]
A group led by Manchester Airports Group, Ryanair, easyJet, TUI UK and Virgin Atlantic are left considering their options after failing to win a judicial review of the UK Governments coronavirus traffic light travel system. Acknowledging that the group did have grounds for a judicial review but the judges of [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has outlined its planned recovery schedule for Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) airports. As air travel begins to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of restrictions in England the airline hopes to be able to deliver a significant increase in its operations. Manchester Airport will see [read more]
The fourth aircraft for Airbus’ Transport fleet took flight from Toulouse yesterday (20th July) for its maiden flight and preparation for entry into service. BelugaXL No4 is the latest oversized transport aircraft to join Airbus Transport International (ATI) to move components such and wings and fuselage sections from Airbus sites [read more]
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