Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced that it launching a new route from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to Knock (NOC/EIKN) next year. The twice-weekly service will launch on 22nd March 2022 and run until at least October 2022. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: “We are pleased to add [read more]
Aer Lingus UK commenced its Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Orlando (MCO/KMCO) on Saturday bringing the total number of Aer Lingus transatlantic routes from the northern gateway to 3. The launch saw EI35, operated by an Airbus A330, departing Manchester at 11:49 local time arriving in Orlando around 9 hours later [read more]
Airbus has confirmed it is seeking independent legal assessment of the Airbus A350 paint issue which Airbus says is being subject to ‘mischaracterization’ by ‘one of its customers’. Although not naming the customer directly, Qatar Airways is the customer that has been driving this issue which has resulted in a [read more]
The first Airbus A321XLR (MSN11000) has been structurally completed at Airbus’ Final Assembly Line (FAL) at Hamburg, Germany. Major Component Assemblies for the aircraft were shipped from several sites including fuselage sections from Saint Nazaire in France and wings from Broughton, Wales. The aircraft will now be fitted out with [read more]
Former easyJet chairman John Barton has died suddenly aged 77, just days after leaving his role as chairman of the company. Mr Barton left his role at easyJet on 1st December after nine years in the role during which he survived an ousting attempt by former easyJet boss Sir Stelios [read more]
Flybe has reached another milestone in its bid to bring the airline back to the skies by appointing Assured Aviation Services as its ground handling agent at Birmingham Airport. The deal will see 100 local jobs being created for the Warwickshire based company who handle all Flybe’s ground requirements from [read more]
UK aircraft manufacturer, Britten-Norman has confirmed it has signed a new deal with Solent Airport to stay in its purpose-built hangar for another 15 years. Solent Airport (Daedalus), formerly known as RNAS Lee On Solent, is home to the company’s civil aircraft manufacturing and maintenance facilities which sits inside Fareham [read more]
The new Cyrus Capital owned airline launching under the name Flybe is targeting a Spring launch for flights within the UK and Europe. According to sources close to the airline, March is the anticipated launch month although there is apparently still a lot of work to do before it can [read more]
Aer Lingus UK (EG/EUK), the wholly-owned British subsidiary of Aer Lingus, has today launched its service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to New York JFK (JFK/KJFK). The flight was operated by an Airbus A330 and departed Manchester Airport at 1257 today and is due to arrive in New York at 16:15 [read more]
Concern has been raised over early skin degradation on Airbus A350 models after a problem first reported by Qatar Airways has resulted in them grounding 20 of their 53 A350 aircraft. The issue has been visualised by external paint cracking, particularly around areas where external probes join the fuselage. Other [read more]
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