The state of summer holidays for UK travellers still remains uncertain despite Government setting out the plans for which foreign air travel can resume from 17th May. Despite this, one of the UK’s leading holiday companies, Jet2 Holidays, has extended its suspension on holidays and flights until June. Passengers wanting [read more]
UK Based aerospace service provider, Nova Systems, has been instrumental in delivering the joint Hawk-Typhoon training which has been carried out between the UK and Qatari armed forces. The training including members of the Royal Air Force and Qatari Air Force operating as a join squadron for exercises including Epic [read more]
East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) has announced that it has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to replace Patrick Peal who is retiring from the role. The charities current Director of Operations, Matthew Jones, will head the charity from the end of June 2021. Mr Peal has led the [read more]
The UK Ministry of Defence has halted all Bae Hawk T1 flying after a Royal Navy Hawk crashed in Helston, Cornwall earlier today after it suffered an engine failure. All services which operate the Hawk T1 including the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy (RN) are now pausing flights [read more]
Aer Lingus has finally confirmed the transatlantic routes it plans to operate from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) with the first operating to New York and Orlando. In what has been one of the worst kept secrets of modern times, the flights will be operated under Aer Lingus UK with a UK [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has set out its plans for flights in Summer 2021 including 26 new routes from the UK to Europe and a return to Belfast City. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said that he expects travel restrictions to be lifted this summer as the UK’s coronavirus vaccination [read more]
The owners of Old Sarum airfield have today received a public apology from Wiltshire Councillor Ian McLennan of Laverstock, Ford & Old Sarum ward after he made a number of innacurate comments and statements online about the intentions of the owners. Mr McLennan said “Over the course of last year (2020), [read more]
Leading low-cost airline easyJet (U2/EZY) is set to launch flights from Bournemouth Airport (BOH/EGHH) to Belfast and Edinburgh from the end of May 2021. The flights are part of easyJets attempt to boost its domestic services in order to create a strong summer with European air travel looking increasingly less [read more]
Data from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority showed that UK airports saw a combined 14.2 million passengers in Summer 2020, the lowest number since 1975. Between July & September, traditionally the busiest month for summer holidays, the drop was 75% on the previous year with some smaller airports reporting no [read more]
The UK’s 2nd Generation Search and Rescue (UKSAR2G) requirement is set to be addressed by a UK based partnership between Airbus and Draken Europe. Draken is already a supplier of mission critical aviation services to the UK government and by partnering with Airbus will allow a total system solution to [read more]
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