UK airlines have been warned that military action against Syria could cause safety concerns in the Cyprus area along with “intermittent disruption to navigation equipment”. The warning was issued today by the European Aviation Security Agency (EASA) and covers the Eastern Mediterranean & Nicosia flight information region (FIR), which includes [read more]
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (RAFAT) The Red Arrows have announced their display schedule for 2018. The Red Arrows are the public face of the RAF and represent the speed, agility and precision of the Royal Air Force, the team is the public face of the service. They act [read more]
Ryanair Sun, the charter offshoot of Ryanair, has been granted its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) by the Polish Regulators. The move clears the way for Ryanair Sun to begin flights which in 2018 will be for two travel agencies, Tui and Poznan Grecos Holidays. Ryanair Sun will operate five Boeing [read more]
An Ex-Singapore Airlines A380 will get a new lease of life with the Portuguese Charter specialist, Hi Fly (5k/HFY). The Super-Jumbo was returned to aircraft lessors Dr Peters Group in November 2017 and the company had struggled to find a 2nd user market for the type. Interested parties were rumoured to include [read more]
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has appointed Paul Smith as the new Consumer and Markets Director. The appointment will see Mr Smith oversee the CAA’s economic regulation, competition, consumer protection and consumer enforcement activity. Mr Smith joins the CAA from the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) where he was Head of Policy. He [read more]
Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert has trained to become cabin crew in his latest Work Experience programme. Rhod joined British Airways to train at the Global Learning Academy near Heathrow Airport in the episode to be broadcast this evening on BBC Wales British Airways trainer Bobby Nazareth kitted Rhod out with [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has revealed it has a massive gender pay gap with male employees being paid on average 67% more than female employees doing the same job. The gap is largest of all airlines that have reported pay under new regulations, Easyjet reported a 51.7% gap and British Airways [read more]
Qatar Airways will use an Airbus A350 on the first Doha – Cardiff – Doha flight according to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications. In a tweet on Sunday, Salaman Al Shawa said: “What could be more inspiring than listening to whispering of the waves in the ‘Music City’? [read more]
The Royal Air Force (RAF) begins its RAF100 Centenary celebrations on tomorrow and over course of the next few months, some amazing events will be happening around the country to mark the occasion. Easter Sunday will mark the 100th birthday of the RAF which was formed on 1st April 1918 although [read more]
Low-fares airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has been named as value airline of the year in the 2018 Air Transport World Awards. The awards, which took place in Dublin on Tuesday, saw the Fornebu, Norway based airline scoop the award for its budget flights across Europe and its long-haul services. Together with [read more]
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