Ryanair’s Cheif Executive Officer Michael O’Leary has accused the government of being misleading in its bailout of struggling regional airline Flybe. In an open letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, Mr O’Learly calls Flybe a “loss-making turkey” saying it was not a “viable business with genuine short-term difficulties” [read more]
The UK Government has called in financial experts as they look to provide bailout loan to struggling regional airline Flybe rumoured to be in excess of £100m. According to Sky News financial restructuring experts, Alvarez & Marsal have been brought in to work out the terms of the deal for [read more]
Uttlesford District Council has voted to reject expansion plans for London Stansted Airport (STN/EGSS) despite planning officers recommending approval of the project. The plans would have included improvements to the airport layout and infrastructure to allow the airport to handle 43 million passengers per year, an increase from the current [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has announced it is to create Flybe Franchise links from Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) from February 2020 creating a 3-aircraft base. The Lincolnshire Headquared airline will create links from the airport formerly known as Durham Tees Valley to London City, Belfast City, Dublin, Southampton, the Isle of Man [read more]
The first flight of Boeing’s latest wide-body, the 777X, was expected later today (23rd January) to begins its flight testing program ahead of certification but this has now been postponed due to weather. The flight was expected to take place at around 18:00hrs GMT (10:00hrs Local) from Boeings Everett, Washington [read more]
Boeing has said that the return to flight of the Boeing 737 Max will now not happen before July 2020 leaving airlines without the type for the second summer season. The 737 Max was grounded last year following two fatal crashes and has been undergoing changes to its flight control [read more]
On the first anniversary of the crash of Piper Malibu N264DB near Guernsey, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released a statement saying that it at an ‘advanced stage’ of the investigation. The aircraft disappeared on the 21st January 2019 on a flight from Nantes to Cardiff with Cardiff [read more]
Airbus’ latest super-sized transport aircraft, BelugaXL has officially entered service adding the extra capacity to Airbus’ transport network that it needs to meet its planned increases in production of commercial aircraft. Based on the A330-300 Freighter, the BelugaXL is 63 metres long and 8 metres wide which allows the aircraft [read more]
European Airframer Airbus has today successfully carried the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus A350 test aircraft. The flight took off at around 10:15 local time and was operated by two pilots, two flight test engineers and a test flight engineer who carried out 8 successful take-offs. The flight forms [read more]
The award-winning QSuite from Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) will soon be available on Qatar Airways routes from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The patented QSuite Cabin features the industry’s first-ever double bed available in Business Class, as well as private cabins for up to four people with privacy panels that stow away, allowing [read more]
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