Cornwall Council has withdrawn support for the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre (CAHC) forcing their closure and eviction from their site at next to RAF St Mawgan and Cornwall Airport Newquay, a site that is also set to become Spaceport Cornwall, home of Virgin Galactic. In a statement on their Facebook [read more]
Airbus’ Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Dominik Assam, (53) is set to leave the European aerospace giant in 2023 after four years in the position. Mr Assam has played a key role in the company and helped to position Airbus into the strong global position it finds itself in. Airbus CEO [read more]
A Jet2.com (LS/EXS) flight was reportedly diverted to Munich on Friday after a 70-year-old woman became aggressive and violent when she was informed that “free champagne” was not part of the service. Videos of the pensioner have been shared on social media platform TikTok of the event which happened on [read more]
Ryanair has announced it is launching its biggest ever winter schedule from the UK during the 2022/23 season with over 440 routes from 21 UK airports available for those looking to get away. The schedule also includes 21 new routes from 7 UK airports including Bournemouth, Birmingham, Newcastle, London Stansted, [read more]
The Red Arrows display at the Rhyl airshow today was brought to an abrupt end when Red 6, Sqdn Ldr Gregor Oston, aircraft was hit by a bird. Witnesses saw the Royal Air Force (RAF) BAe Hawk T1 suddenly break away from the display after it was hit in the [read more]
Head of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Chief of the Air Staff Sir Mike Wigston has written to all personnel saying that he will address concerns around recruitment, bullying and sexual harassment as a priority after a spate of recent high-profile resignations and allegations. Earlier this month a senior female [read more]
Air India, which is owned by the Tata conglomerate is finally about to make its much anticipated new aircraft order and it’s been touted to be one biggest fleet upgrades in recent years. Airbus and Boeing have been pushing for the business but who has won the deal? A deal [read more]
Regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) has put flights from Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) on sale ahead of launching operations later this year. The airline is offering flights to London Heathrow and Manchester from Cornwall with Heathrow operating (up to) twice daily and Manchester, daily from 30th October 2022. Flybe CEO, Dave [read more]
The UK’s largest regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has surprised frequent flying twins Archie and Florrie Gray with a free flight as the pairs booking hit the 150,000th passenger mark on the Inverness to Manchester route. The 14-year-old Brother and Sister were greeted at Inverness Airport by Donna McHugh, Head of [read more]
The European Space Agencies (ESA) European Space Module (ESM) is set to be rocketed into space on Monday as part of the Artemis project, NASA’s return to the moon. A key part of the Orion Spacecraft, the airbus built European Space Module provides the “heart and lungs” for astronaut missions [read more]
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