Rolls-Royce has been chosen to re-engine the United States Air Force’s heavy bomber fleet, the B52 Stratofortress for the next 30 years. The contract was awarded by the Pentagon to Rolls-Royce’s US subsidiary and will see it supply the F130 engine which is a military version of the proven BR725 [read more]
Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) will remain closed until at least Monday morning following a light aircraft accident that has left one person with serious injuries. The incident happened this morning and is believed to have involved one of the based General Aviation aircraft, Grumman American AA-5 Traveler G-BBSA, which crashed just [read more]
The US Government has finally said it will be relaxing travel rules for fully vaccinated passengers from the United Kingdom and EU countries from November. Under the new rules, which replace a miss-match of different restrictions introduced by ousted President Donald Trump, passengers who have had both jabs will be [read more]
London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has returned its summer figures which show passenger numbers were down 66% compared to pre-pandemic levels. July and August saw just 1.2m passengers pass through the terminals at London Luton compared to 3.6m in the same period of 2019. The airport says that despite the success [read more]
BA Cityflyer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Airways, has confirmed it will be relaunching flights from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from this autumn. The London City Airport-based airline will operate a twice-daily service to Belfast City using an Embraer regional jet. Announcing the return Tom Stoddart, the managing director of BA [read more]
According to multiple sources within the industry, low-cost airline easyJet (U2/EZY) has rejected a bid from a rival low-cost airline. The bid was put to the board who reportedly considered the offer for some time before coming to the decision to reject the offer. Some sources have suggested that ambitious [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced six new routes from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) for Winter 2021/22. From October, new destinations from Birmingham will include Bergamo, Lisbon, Bucharest, Shannon, Turin and Vilnius. The new routes bring the total of winter routes from Birmingham with Ryanair to 28 this season. Ryanair’s [read more]
Ryanair says it has failed to reach agreement with Boeing over the purchase of Boeing 737 Max10 aircraft. The all Boeing 737 airline has recently started to take delivery of its Max 8 variant, the Max8200 but was interested in purchasing the bigger, longer range Max10 variant. As usual with [read more]
A Boeing Stearman belonging to wing walking display team Aerosuperbatics has ditched into the sea near Poole Harbour following an engine failure. Both pilot and wing walker escaped with minor injuries and were shaken up after being rescued by the Poole lifeboat. Aerosuperbatics were displaying at the Bournemouth Air Festival [read more]
Ryanair has released figures showing that its traffic in August 2021 was 45% higher than the same period in 2020. The airline says it carried 11.1m passengers in August compared to just 7m last year when UK passengers were only allowed to travel for essential reasons. The figures show the [read more]
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