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Ryanair has been ranked the worlds worst airline again by Which? for the sixth year in a row and with it came the the surge of “I hate ryanair” posts on social media. But really, who cares? Passengers clearly don’t, Passengers numbers with the Irish budget airline were up 8% [read more]

Research has shown that 1 in 4 British travellers consider China as a dream destination as more and more flights between the UK and China launch. The research carried out for Air China has shown that almost a quarter of Brit’s put China as top of their bucket list of [read more]

On the 6th November 1957 fifteen people were killed when a Bristol Britannia airliner crashed on the outskirts of Bristol. The Britannia -300 prototype G-ANCA was carrying a four flight crew and eleven technicians on a test flight when it crashed on approach to Filton aerodrome in woods near Overndale [read more]

On the 28th October 1972 Airbus flew its first commercial airliner, the Airbus A300. As well as being Airbus first aircraft, it was also the worlds first twin-engine wide-body aircraft. Developed in the 1960’s the A300 was the first aircraft to be designed and built by the newly created Airbus [read more]

I’ve recently got back from a weekend in Geneva and, if i’m honest, I wasn’t sure entirely what to expect when I headed off but I came back wanting to go again. Arriving at Bristol Airport early on a Friday morning found a busy check in area and a notable [read more]

Primera Air, the Danish based low-cost carrier that operated from Birmingham and London Stansted, ceased trading yesterday leaving thousands of passengers either stranded abroad or having to cancel travel plans and its collapse comes as a warning to all flight only passengers, there is likely to be no rescue. Primera [read more]

On this day, 27th September, in 1964 the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) carried out the first flight of a new nuclear bomber to help fight the Cold War, the TSR-2. TSR-2 was designed as a Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance aircraft capable of penetrating highly protected airspace with conventional and nuclear [read more]

Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) save lives, especially in rural or remote locations where professional help will take longer to arrive. This isn’t theory, its fact and its the reason why you are starting to see AEDs in more and more places such as villages and public spaces. An AED, as [read more]