617 Squadron, the Dambusters, was celebrated at the Royal International Air Tattoo with a special flypast marking the squadrons iconic aircraft. The flypast at RAF Fairford at the weekend formed part of the RAF100 celebrations and featured the squadrons famous Avro Lancaster, the aircraft which was used on the Dambusters [read more]
Virgin Orbit has entered into a partnership agreement with Spaceport Cornwall which will see satellite launches return to the UK for the first time in 50 years. The partnership with Satellite launch provider, Virgin Orbit, will see launches from a Spaceport at Cornwall Airport Newquay by 2021, using a modified Boeing [read more]
The EU commission has approved Ryanair taking a 75% stake in Austrian airline, Laudamotion. Laudamotion is owned by former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda and took control of Niki when Air Berlin collapsed last year. Ryanair almost immediately took a stake 24% in the airline in a deal worth €50m, [read more]
EasyJet has put 16 new routes from the UK on sale today, including the airlines 1000th route. The Luton based low-cost carrier’s 1000th route is Manchester to Bordeaux, which launches in Winter 2018. In addition to Manchester, EasyJet also put new routes on sale from Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Luton and [read more]
US low-cost carrier JetBlue is the first airline to order the newly renamed Airbus A220 airliner. JetBlue has signed a commitment for 60 of the jets, formerly known as the Bombardier C-Series. The C-Series was officially brought into the Airbus family on Tuesday when it was renamed as the A220. The order [read more]
Ryanair has confirmed it has had to cancel a number of flights from Ireland as a 24hour pilot strike gets underway. The 24-hour walkout by pilots based at Dublin and other Irish airports began at 01:00hrs (BST) today and will last until 01:00hrs (BST) tomorrow. The Irish budget carrier confirmed it had [read more]
You may have recently seen a Twitter statement regarding delays from Irish budget airline Ryanair which blamed ATC shortages for delays to its flights on the 9th and 10th July Whilst not unusual in itself, it got more attention when NATS (National Air Traffic Services), the UK’s air navigation provider responded [read more]
Shining a laser at an aircraft can now land you up to 5 years in prison under the new law that came into effect today. The Laser Misuse (Vehicles) Act means that offenders who point a laser pen at any vehicle will face tougher penalties of up to 5 years [read more]
London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has had its busiest ever June as it prepares to celebrate its 80th birthday. June saw 1,562,308 passengers pass through the airport, the 17th consecutive month of 1,000,000 plus passenger numbers. The figures for June are 4% increase on June 2017. The airport celebrates its 80th anniversary [read more]
Airbus has renamed the C-Series 100 and 300 to the A220-100 and A220-300 respectively following it taking control of Bombardier. In a ceremony in Toulouse today, Airbus officially welcomed the two newest members of its family of A series Commercial aircraft and the first not carry the traditional 3 designations. Airbus [read more]
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