Articles by Nick Harding

Air India (AI/AIC) has committed to a total of 250 aircraft from European airframer Airbus in a widely anticipated order. The TATA Group-owned airline will use the order to boost its domestic and international operations with a mixture of single-aisle and wide-body jets making up the order. A total of [read more]

A busy winter ski season has seen flights to many destinations reach or even exceed pre-pandemic passenger levels from 2019. According to data from aviation analytics firm, Cirium overall, departures from UK airports will hit 81% of 2019 levels but some individual destinations exceed the same period in 2019 by as [read more]

Airbus figures for January show that the airframer delivered 20 aircraft to 15 customers in the first month of 2023. Deliveries included 18 single-aisle airliners to customers including Air Lease Corporation (ALC) and Aviation Capital Group (ACG). Two wide-body airliners were also delivered, an A330-900 for Virgin Atlantic and an [read more]

Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has resumed flights from Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) to Manchester (MAN/EGCC) reconnecting the South West with the North West of England. The first of the daily flights took off yesterday and will provide the two areas with direct connections for business and leisure. Luke Lovegrove, [read more]

European airframer ATR has announced it is deepening its relationship with Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) to accelerate developing and introducing low-emission aircraft technology in New Zealand. The collaboration will launch an initiative called ‘Mission Next Gen Aircraft’ which will see Air New Zealand partner with several industry and academic stakeholders [read more]

The Jon Egging Trust (JET), a trust set up in memory of the Red Arrows pilot who lost his life at the Bournemouth Airshow in 2011, has received a funding boost from US aerospace giant Northrop Grumman. The funding will support over 200 young people across the UK through its [read more]

Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached an out-of-court settlement over the A350 paint row which led to Airbus cancelling Qatar Airways’ orders. The row centred around a paint issue on the Airus A350 which led to degradation that, according to the Qatari regulator, was a safety issue leading to the [read more]

Campaigners opposed to expansion at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) have lost their appeal at the High Court effectively giving the final green light to the airport. A protest group made up of paid campaign groups such as Extinction Rebellion operating under the banner of Bristol Airport Action Network had appealed the [read more]