A 29-year-old man from Swansea has been jailed for pointing a laser pen at a Police Helicopter which was searching for a missing person. William Fellowes, of Pentregethin Road, Portmead, Swansea told police he had been using the Laser Pen to point at Stars and that the pilot was a [read more]
TUI UK is set to move its Florida operations from Orlando Sanford (SFB/KSFB) to Orlando Melbourne (MLB/KMLB) from Summer 2022 and here are the details of how often the flights will operate. Flights from Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) will begin on 5th April 2022 and operate up to 3 times per week. [read more]
Thomas Cook and TUI have cancelled all holidays from the UK as the new national lockdown takes effect to try and beat the growing number of Coronavirus infections. TUI said that passengers due to travel from airports in England before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to [read more]
Singapore Airlines (SQ/SIA) has resumed transit flights from the UK to countries including Australia and New Zealand via Changi. Transit passengers from the UK were barred last month by the Singapore Government but Singapore Airlines has secured a special dispensation to allow passengers to transit to Auckland, New Zealand and [read more]
The UK’s advertising watchdog is set to investigate Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) after a recent campaign showed a vaccine bottle and invited customers to ‘Jab & Go’. The Advertising and Standards Authority has received thousands of complaints about the advert with some arguing that it misled customers into thinking [read more]
Six UK airports have already achieved Carbon Neutrality according to Airport Carbon Accreditation Programme (ACA). According to the ACA, to achieve ‘Level 3+ Neutrality’ status the airports must meet the following criteria: Determine emissions sources within the operational boundary of the airport company. Calculate the annual carbon emissions. Compile a carbon [read more]
Aer Lingus is to begin sales of transatlantic flights between Manchester and the US from Friday subject to approval from the US Department of Transportation. According to filings the airline has sought approval from the US DoT to promote, advertise and sell tickets from the UK to the US from [read more]
According to a report by Aviation Consultants To70, commercial aviation accidents in 2020 fell from 86 in 2019 to just 40 but the number of fatalities rose from 257 to 299. The increase in fatalities comes despite a significant decrease in air global air travel due to the Coronavirus Pandemic [read more]
Flights between the UK and India are set to resume from 8th January following their suspension after a new variant of Coronavirus was found in the UK. India’s Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that initially only 15 flights per week would be allowed in order to allow India [read more]
©2014-2022 UK Aviation News | A UK Aviation Media Production | Hosted and Maintained by Newport Digital | Find us on Mastodon