A fatal helicopter crash in North Wales last year was caused by the weather according to the Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB). The Airbus Helicopters AS355 Ecureuil II, G-OHCP crashed into Rhinog Fawr mountain on the 29th March 2017 killing all on board, the pilot and 4 passengers. According to the accident [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has confirmed it has cancelled its orders for the Airbus A380 Super Jumbo. Virgin has deferred the aircraft for a number of years but the official cancellation came in February when the orders were taken off Airbus’ books. The cancellation was shown in Airbus’ February order-and-delivery list [read more]
Just days after outspoken CEO Michael O’Leary claimed Ryanair may cancel all flights for a day to punish the UK for Brexit, his chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs has said the airline is confident that flights would not come to a halt after the UK leaves the European Union. Speaking [read more]
International Women’s Day 2018 is a chance to celebrate women and in aviation, they don’t come any bigger than Amy Johnson. Amy Johnson CBE was born in Kingston Upon Hull in 1903 and after leaving university with a degree in Economics took up a job in London as a solicitors secretary. [read more]
The last surviving Dambuster, Johnny Johnson MBE DFM will be giving a talk at Manchester Airport’s Runway Visitors Park on 19th April. The talk, which is part of Manchester Airport‘s 80th birthday celebrations, will see Mr Johnsoon talk about his role in the raids on German dams in May 1943 by [read more]
Easyjet has joined forces with Girlguiding have joined forces to introduce the Aviation Badge for Brownies. 200,000 Girlguides with have the chance to earn the badge which is hoped will encourage more girls into aviation and to lay the foundation for a future career as a pilot. Easyjet has set [read more]
The first Ultra Long Range (ULR) Airbus A350 XWB has made its debut from final assembly in Toulouse prior to having the engines fitted. The aircraft, which is destined for Singapore Airlines, was rolled out of the final assembly hangar following completion of the airframe assembly and has now moved [read more]
Ryanair has announced it is to close its base at Glasgow Airport (GLA/EGPF) later this year with the aircraft and routes moving to Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH). The Irish budget carrier currently has 1 aircraft based at the Scottish airport but under its revised plans for Winter 2018 it will move the [read more]
British Airways and other airlines are running a reduced operation at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) today due to the what is being called ‘The Beast from the East’. Freezing temperatures and snow have meant that Heathrow’s biggest operator has had to cancel a number of flights to maintain a safe and [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has cancelled 34 flights on Monday 26th February as the “beast from the east” rolls into the UK overnight. Freezing temperatures and snow are set to cause major disruption across the UK over the next 7 days with temperatures plummeting to sub-zero and getting colder as the [read more]
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