Birmingham Airport has revealed its masterplan to take the airport from its current 13 million passengers per year up to 18 million by 2033. The £500 million project will see the departure lounge in Terminal 1 expanded by 40 per cent and a new mezzanine level added. Additional check-in facilities, [read more]
Seattle-based air-framer Boeing has been hit with fresh woes as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an airworthiness directive requiring modifications to the tires and wheels on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner models. The directive states that the tires and wheels “could be susceptible to damage” [read more]
St Athan-based Aircraft Maintenance and Training company Cardiff Aviation Ltd has unveiled that it’s changing its name to Caerdav from today. The change of name coincides with the companies plans to roll out a range of new training and maintenance support services which will include Cabin Crew Attestation services and [read more]
Blackpool-based Helispeed has announced a new contract with Heliconia Air Services of Morocco which will see Helispeed supply them with qualified pilots for 12 months. Helispeed will supply pilots from its ‘Heli-Trax’ database which holds over 700 highly trained and vetted pilots from across the world. Gemma Walker, Operations Director, [read more]
Low-cost carrier Easyjet has carried 55 million passengers since it began operations at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) in 2002. Bristol Airport is one of Easyjet’s largest bases and the largest outside of London. Currently it operates 71 routes from the West Country airport and up to 740 flights per week in [read more]
Flights from Aberdeen to London have officially got underway with the start of Loganair’s new Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) to London Southend (SEN/EGMC) service. Loganair (LM/LOG) operates three rotations per day Monday to Friday as well as Sunday service and has a flight time of 1 hour 35 minutes on its Embraer [read more]
Air Serbia (JU/ASL) has agreed to lease the former Jet Airways London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) slots from owners, Etihad. In slot trade, submitted on the 26th April 2019, Air Serbia will lease seven slots pairs from Etihad until 26th October 2019. Indian airline Jet Airways recently suspended operations and the some [read more]
It emerged yesterday that a WDL Aviation aircraft, operating for British Airways subsidiary BA Cityflyer, landed in Edinburgh instead of flying to Dusseldorf thanks to the incorrect flight plan being sent from WDL Aviation’s operations team. Irish budget airline Ryanair’s twitter team were quick to jump on the embarrassing mistake [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has confirmed that its Airbus A350 will be the first aircraft to be fitted with the new Business Class “Club Suite”. The A350 joins the British Airways fleet in July and will initially fly some short haul routes including London to Madrid giving the crews the chance [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) along with Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) has been awarded the accolade of being the best airports in Europe in the 5-15million passengers category. The awards come from the Airports Council International (ACI) and are based on passengers services. ACI benchmarks passengers’ satisfaction across 37 key performance indicators and [read more]
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