Virgin Orbit made history tonight when the rocket “Launcher One” was successfully dropped from its Boeing 747-400 mothership over the Atlantic. The Boeing 747 Cosmic Girl N744VG (formerly known as G-VWOW with Virgin Atlantic) swapped passengers for rockets as it left Spaceport Cornwall, Newquay just after 10 pm this evening. [read more]
Low-cost US carrier Jetblue has confirmed it is launching an all-daylight service between London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and New York JFK (JFK/KJFK) starting from 25th March 2023. The new flight gives the option for passengers to arrive in the UK from New York on the same day with the 08:30(local time) [read more]
Flights over the festive period from the UK were 49% higher than in the previous period highlighting the continued post-pandemic revival of air travel. According to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium 28,508 flights departed UK airports between the 21st of December 2022 and the 4th of January 2023. Christmas Day itself [read more]
BT Group’s Digital Incubation Team is entering into a deal with Drone safety specialist Altitude Angel with the aim of making a drone superhighway in the UK. The £5m investment will create a unified traffic management system (UTM) known as ARROW. A UTM is the software platform and core infrastructure [read more]
Toulouse-based airframer ATR has delivered the first of three ATR aircraft to Maldivian, the national airline of the Maldives. The ATR 72-600 is the first of two -600 ordered by the airliner and in addition to an ATR42-600 which was also ordered. The new aircraft are equipped with the latest [read more]
According to data from UK trade body ADS, over 1,000 aircraft have been delivered to operators for the first time since 2019 marking a continued recovery post-pandemic. Although the exact figures have yet to be released, the number of deliveries in November 2019 was 976 requiring the manufacturers to deliver [read more]
London Gatwick, London Luton and Bristol Airport have been listed as some of the worst airports in the UK for delays according to CAA data examined by flying experience provider, Flydays.co.uk The study, which measured data during August, September and October, found that over 30% of flights at Gatwick and [read more]
Weston Air Festival, the popular free airshow held at Weston Super Mare will not return in 2023 after the county council said it could not afford the subsidy needed to run the show. The event needs a subsidy of £135,000 which North Somerset Council said it could not justify during [read more]
Flights between the 21st December and 4th January will remain 14% lower than pre-pandemic levels according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirum with 30,979 flights set to depart UK airports. easyJet (U2/EZY) is set to rank top of the Christmas flights with 5,928 flights departing over the festive period [read more]
Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) has confirmed it is increasing its Doha (DOH/OTHH) to Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) service to ten flights per week from February 2023. The service is operated by a Boeing 787-8 aircraft and will add further connectivity from Scotland’s busiest airport to the rest of the world via Doha. Kate [read more]
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