Airbus flew the first A330neo up to North Wales today for a flypast at the Airbus UK wing factory. The A330neo F-WWKM flew past the Broughton site, which is located at Hawarden Airport, just after 12:30 this afternoon. The aircraft is in the colours of launch customer TAP Air Portugal. [read more]
Polish airline LOT is planning to start a direct service between London City (LCY/EGLC) and Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW/EPWA). The airline plans to introduce twice-daily service (daily at weekends) from January 2019 using a 112-seat Embraer E190 aircraft. Warsaw is the capital of Poland and passengers will be able to connect to [read more]
London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) has unveiled a 5-year plan that will see it pump 1.1bn into the airport as it seeks ways to increase capacity. The UK’s second largest airport is expecting passenger numbers to hit 53m by 2023 but as it has lost out to Heathrow in the government’s airport [read more]
Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has seen its 15th consecutive month of growth with a 12% rise in passengers for May 2018. Wales’ national airport had its busiest May since 2009 which now sees 18 airlines regularly fly out of it including the new Qatar Airways service to Doha which launched on the [read more]
Gwent police have confirmed that two men were killed when a light aircraft crashed near Raglan yesterday. Emergency services were called to the scene of the plane crash just after 11 am on Sunday and the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed it was sending a team to the scene [read more]
The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has confirmed it is sending a team of investigators to the scene of an aircraft accident in South Wales. The accident happened around 11am this morning and South Wales Fire & Rescue confirmed it had attended the scene. Gwent Police, who are also at [read more]
AvGeeks in the UK have been warned to look out for Lightning this afternoon as the UK’s latest front-line ground attack aircraft heads across the Atlantic. The first Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightining II’s (F35 Lightning to the RAF) are being flown from the US to RAF Marham be members of [read more]
The UK Government’s economic sub-committee has backed the plans for the expansion of Heathrow Airport and these plans were then approved by her full cabinet. The move paves the way for a government vote on a 3rd runway at the London hub which will see the destruction of two villages [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is making changes to its schedules from Manchester Airport as it switches to an all Boeing 747-400 operation for Winter 18/19. The airport previously had a mix of Airbus A330 and Boeing 747 aircraft but the latest changes to its Atlanta and New York JFK flights see [read more]
Dutch investigators have said that the Malaysian Airlines 777 that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 was shot down by a missile provided by Russian Forces. The investigators have studied video footage of the missile launch which they say proves that the missile belonged to Russia’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade who had [read more]
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