London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are amongst the top bookings for European holidaymakers this summer according to Hotel and Flight search engine, Jetcost UK which has seen a 250% increase in searches for flights to the UK and a 330% increase in hotels for the first seven months of 2022. [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has launched a new initiative aimed at encouraging tourists to respect and protect the islands it flies them to by asking passengers to adhere to a new “island visitor pledge”. It is believed to be the first time that a UK airliner has asked passengers to follow guidelines [read more]
Airbus has successfully testest a removable firefighting kit that can be loaded onto an Airbus A400M as a mission payload. During the test, an A400M was able to demonstrate its ability to drop 20 tonnes of water in less than 10 seconds at a height of 150ft and speeds as [read more]
On Monday the Irish budget airliner Ryanair said that airports had failed to recruit enough staff which has led to chaotic scenes at airports and flight cancellations around the UK with Neil Sorahan, Ryanair’s Chief Financial Officer saying they “had one job to do” and called on the airports to [read more]
German carrier Condor Airline Condor Flugdienst GmbH has committed to 41 A320neo family aircraft as it seeks to modernise its single-aisle fleet in addition to selecting the A330neo to modernise its long-haul fleet. Both types give a boost to Airbus’ facility in Broughton, North Wales where the wings for all [read more]
Brazillian airframer Embraer has come out on top of the sales charts at the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA22) with total orders and commitments reaching 280. While most of Embraer’s orders were for the much vaunted single-aisle E195-E2, Embraer also did well with the older E175 and its future eVTOL aircraft [read more]
The 2022 Farnborough International Airshow was the place Boeing chose to debut its latest single-aisle airliner, the Boeing 737-10. or Max 10 and we were invited to come along and take a closer look. The 230-seat Boeing 737-10 is the largest of the Max family and this shows in the [read more]
Luxembourg-based freight specialist Cargolux has selected the Boeing 777-8F to replace its Boeing 747-400 freighters in an announcement at the Farnborough International Airshow. The company is the world’s largest operator of Boeing widebody freighters with 30 Boeing 747-400 and 747-8F aircraft in its fleet and replacing the older -400s with [read more]
easyJet has firmed up an order for 56 Airbus A320neo family aircraft in a deal announced at the Farnborough International Airshow. The package of 56 aircraft includes the conversion of 18 A320neo aircraft to the larger A321neo. Kenton Jarvis, CFO for easyJet, said: “We believe this order will support positive [read more]
Boeing and Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) have today finalised an order for 25 Boeing 737 Max 10 aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow. The order comes from an airline which has traditionally used Airbus single-aisle airliners but a recent public rift between Airbus and Qatar Airways, and the subsequent cancellation of [read more]
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