Jazeera Airways (J9/JZR) is launching a daily flight between Kuwait International Airport (KWI/OKBK) and London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL). The service will launch on 25th October and will be operated by an Airbus A320neo aircraft. Founded in 2004, Kuwait based Jazeera Airways was the first non-government owned airline to operate in Kuwait, [read more]
Leading gulf carrier Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) has filed some changes to its winter schedule to the UK. From the 25th October, Qatar Airways is reducing a number of routes to fit the current and expected demand for air travel. Route reductions include: London Gatwick reduction from 18 to 4 weekly [read more]
Denmark, Slovakia & Iceland have all been removed from the UK’s safe travel corridor list along with the Dutch-Caribbean island of Curacao. The changes mean that anyone arriving to the UK via an English airport from these countries after 4 am on 26th September will have to self-isolate for 14-days. [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) and Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) have both announced flights from Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) today. The two regional airlines will both compete on the route in Summer 2021 however Eastern Airways will operate a year round sound from 23rd October 2020. Eastern Airways says that its year-round service [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has launched its first-ever Buy One Get One Free offer meaning you can take a friend for free this autumn. The offer is available on 1,600 routes across Ryanair’s network and valid for travel from 25th Septermber to 14th December 2020. But this offer is [read more]
Thursday is expected to see a double depature for British Airways’ Boeing 747’s as two more of the type leave the fleet to head off to the scrapyard. G-BYGE, one of the youngest of BA’s 747s, is expected to finally depart from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) for the short flight to [read more]
The report into a Flybe flight to Alicante last year that had to be evacuated on take-off has raised concerns over the evacuation after some passengers faced a “large-drop” from the Wing. The incident happened 28th February 2019 at Exeter Airport when the crew aborted the take-off after smoke started [read more]
Thomas Cook has officially relaunched as an online only travel agent operated by Chinese travel giant Fosun. We revealed last week that plans were at an advanced stage to relaunch the brand which Fosun bought the rights for £11m when the travel company collapsed last year. There will be no [read more]
A Tui Airways UK Boeing 737 Max is flying in UK airspace for the first time in over a year as it positioned from Tenerife to Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) via Malaga. The flight using G-TUMF was given special dispensation to operate and was restricted to a maximum altitude of 18,000ft and [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) flight 113 from Heathrow to New York JFK is currently on it’s way back to Heathrow after declaring an emergency over Wales. The aircraft, a Boeing 777 G-VIIC, was climbing to its cruise altitude when it suddenly started to descend down to 10,000ft, declaring an emergency and [read more]
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