A planned fast taxi run of Avro Vulcan XM655 this Sunday has reportedly been cancelled following an incident involving the aircraft today. The aircraft, preserved at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, reportedly ran off the runway coming to rest in the hedge on the airfield boundary next to a busy road. It [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has called on the European Union (EU) to take immediate action to protect flights over French airspace as the budget airline is forced to cancel over 400 flights during today’s strike by French air traffic controllers. The airline called the strike “unjustified” and it has achieved nothing but [read more]
Flight tracking website of choice, Flightradar24 says that its website came under “heavy load” yesterday as Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was flown from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt in London. At its peak, 4.79 million people tracked the flight on Flightradar24’s website and app with hundreds of thousands more watching on [read more]
Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has signed a deal with Vienna-based OMV to supply 160,000 tonnes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at airports across Austria, Germany and Romania. The deal will give access to 53million gallons of SAF enabling the airline to save 400,000 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 40,000 flights. [read more]
Global aircraft and private jet chartering specialist Smart Aviation has confirmed it is launching a cargo division to meet the rising demand for chartered freight aircraft. The Crawley-based operation has been in operation for 17 years but this is the first time that they offer freight services. To kickstart the [read more]
UK holiday airline Jet2.com has expanded its winter 23/24 schedule of flights to Iceland giving customers more choice of dates for trips from nine UK airports. The increase means that Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) will feature for the first time in the 23/24 season. Other airports featured in the Winter 23/24 [read more]
European airframer Airbus has delivered 30 aircraft to 22 customers in August including four A350 and two A330 long-haul airliners. Deliveries also included 19 A320neo, 13 A321neo and a sole A319neo to airlines including easyJet and Wizz Air. The deliveries bring the total for the year to 382 deliveries to [read more]
Her Majesty The Queen passed away peacefully this afternoon at Balmoral castle. God save the King.
Derby-based aero engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has withdrawn from the Boom Overture supersonic airliner saying it had completed its contract with the project. Rolls-Royce was one of several jet engine manufacturers helping Boom with engineering studies and had signed a two-year cooperation agreement with the US company. Unlike other engine manufacturers, [read more]
Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) will see a boost to its winter schedule thanks to Ryanair’s (FR/RYR) biggest ever winter program from the airport. The Irish budget airline will operate a total of 80 weekly flights across 15 routes during the Winter 2022/23 season. This includes 6 new routes to Barcelona, Cork, [read more]
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