A rare visitor to the UK skies graced Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) with its presence today as the Honeywell flying testbed arrived at the Welsh Airport. Boeing 757-200 N757HW is used by Honeywell, amongst other things, to test Jet engines and can carry an engine on an external pod to test [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it will drop its London Southend to Glasgow route from 3rd January 2020. Loganair is operating the route with a 49-seat Embraer RJ145 Regional Jet making it hard to compete against the numerous low-cost options between London to Glasow from airlines such as Easyjet and Ryanair. [read more]
Manchester Airport’s (MAN/EGCC) new private terminal for everyone, PremiAir, is now fully open and the airport is keen to show off the facility which can be booked for any flight for as little as £50. PremiAir is a private terminal that offers the ultimate lounge experience for 23 airlines flying [read more]
According to reports coming out America, Kerrville, Texas-based General Aviation Manufacturer Mooney has ceased production. The manufacturer has been struggling for some time and has reportedly sold just 4 aircraft in the first half of 2019 compared to 203 by rival Cirrus. Mooney was making just two aircraft models recently. [read more]
Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) is expected to operate its latest ‘Project Sunrise’ ultra-long-haul test flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Sydney this week. According to sources close to the operation, the airline will be repurposing a the delivery of their latest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to carry out a trial run [read more]
Leading UK holiday airline Jet2 (LS/EXS) has bought the slots belonging to the defunct airline a Thomas Cook at Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted airports. The sale, for an undisclosed amount, was announced by the official receiver. The total amount of slot pairs has also not been confirmed but according to [read more]
Low-cost carrier EasyJet (U2/EZY) has bought the landing slots that belonged to Thomas Cook at Bristol and Gatwick Airports. The official receiver for the bankrupt Thomas Cook made the announcement this morning. The move will allow EasyJet to increase its presence at two key airports and brings the potential of [read more]
The second of three new taxiways at London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has been opened ahead of schedule. Taxiway Foxtrot runs parallel along half of Delta and the 520m long section provides a new link from the North and East Apron area to the Alpha taxiway allowing the flow of aircraft [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle, trading as Norwegian, has secured funding for its operations for the whole of 2020 and beyond. The Fornebu headquartered group raised NOK 2.5bn through a private placement and the issue of USD $150 million in convertible bonds. Norwegian has been putting its business through a significant change [read more]
Operational management systems company Centrik has helped the independent MRO and jet management business, JMI Aviation Group to obtain Part-145 status. JMI Aviation utilised Centrik’s systems to quickly and easily demonstrate the competence and capabilities of its operation to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) impressing the regulator enough to pass [read more]
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