Ryanair has joined forces with Manchester Airports Group (MAG) to mount a legal challenge to the UK Governments’s traffic light travel system during the pandemic. The system allows for countries to be graded Red, Amber and Green with green being the only colour that doesn’t require a quarantine on return. [read more]
The new deal means that passengers will be able to connect to the British Airways network from Teesside via London Heathrow without having to book separate flights or recheck luggage. Loganair already operates daily flights between Teesside and London Heathrow and the British Airways “through tickets” will be available to [read more]
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a series of safety notices about aircraft returning to service after being stored for long periods during the Coronavirus pandemic. The most critical one, SN2021/014 relates to blocked pitot tubes and follows at least three occurrences of blocked pitot tubes causing airspeed [read more]
The first and only female Red Arrows pilot has been awarded made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queens birthday honours. Kirsty Murphy, who now flies for The Blades Aerobatic Team, spent 17 years in the Royal Air Force flying fast jets before being appointed to the [read more]
Regional airline Stobart Air, which operates Aer Lingus Regional flights, has collapsed leaving hundreds of passengers stranded around the UK and Ireland. The Dublin based airline announced it had ceased trading this morning and was a appointing a liquidator after flights were cancelled across the Are Lingus Regional network. Stobart [read more]
Loganair has become the first UK regional airline to commit to being Carbon Neutral by 2040 after it announced its Green Skies initiative. The first step in the Green Skies initiative is to introduce a carbon offsetting programme which will begin on 1st July and will see a £1 carbon [read more]
Wizz Air UK has announced its first ever domestic flights as it plans fly from the Channels islands to mainland UK for Summer 2021. The flights will connect Jersey with Doncaster & Cardiff, routes that have been previously served by Flybe. The routes will be operated by an Airbus A321 [read more]
Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is set to increase its flights to and from the Isle of Man by 70% as coronavirus restrictions continue to be lifted across the UK. The airline is expecting to operate 44 flights per week to six different destinations from the Island by the end [read more]
After a year of none it was great to be back at an airshow last weekend, especially the off-airport ones with pretty locations, and few airshows have a prettier location than the Midlands Air Festival which is held at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. If anyone was looking for context about [read more]
Singapore Airlines (SQ/SIA) has confirmed it is relaunching flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from 17th July 2021. The direct service between Singapore Changi Airport and the North of England will operate three-times-per week using an A350-900 aircraft. It its hoped that this will increase over time and will also see [read more]
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