Shenzhen A330-300 (Image: N509FZ/CC BY-SA4.0)
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Shenzhen Airlines to launch London route

Guangdong based Shenzhen Airlines has formally put its new Shenzhen to London Heathrow service on sale. The carrier, which is a Star Alliance member, will commence the service on the 30th October 2018 and will operate 3 times per week on a Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Shenzhen airlines currently operate routes within Asia [read more]

Norwegian flights to the US
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Norwegian add Gatwick to Tampa service

Norwegian has added a twice-weekly service to Tampa, Florida from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) as part of Winter 2018/19 changes. The route, which begins on the 31st October will compete directly with legacy carrier British Airways (BA) on what is one of BA’s most popular routes. Norwegian says fares on the [read more]

Fly Erbil 737 (Image: Fly Erbil)
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Kurdistan startup airline Fly Erbil to start flights to UK

Kurdistan’s first airline, Fly Erbil, will commence flights to the UK next month. The startup airline operated its first flight today flying to Sweden today and will operate from Erbil International Airport (EBL/ORER) in Kurdistan to Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from the 13th July flying via Kiev (IEV/UKKK). The airline has been supported [read more]

LOT Embraer (Image: LOT)
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LOT to start London City to Warsaw service

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]

Sun Express Boeing 737-800 (Image: LLA)
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Sun Express starts new Turkey flights from Luton

Turkish airline Sun Express (ZQ/SXS) has operated its first scheduled flight from London Luton to Antalya, Turkey today. Antalya is the first of four new routes that the airline will operate to Turkey from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) with Ankara, Gaziantep and Bodrum launching later this month. Antalya based Sun [read more]

Thomas Cook G-OMYT (Image: The Aviation Media Co.)
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Thomas Cook expands A330 operations at Manchester

Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has increased its wide-body operation at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) with additional A330 services over the summer. The UK holiday airline, which recently launched a direct service from Manchester to Seattle (SEA/KSEA) will use its wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft on 8 additional services across Europe and Turkey. Thomas [read more]

Widerøe_LN-WDE_Q400 (Image: Alasdair McLellan/CC BY-SA3.0)
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Liverpool gets Bergen connection

Norwegian airline Wideroe is to begin direct flights from Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) to Bergen (BGO/ENBR) later this year. The twice-weekly flights will begin on the 17th August and operate on Mondays and Fridays. Bergen is Norway’s second city and known as the gateway to the Fjords. Surrounded by mountains and fjords Bergen is [read more]

Jet Airways A330 (Image: Helmy Oved CC BY-SA2.0)
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New Route: Manchester to Mumbai

Major Indian airlines Jet Airways (9w/JAI) has announced that it will operate a four-times-weekly service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Mumbai (BOM/VABB). The route will start in November 2018 and will operate on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday using an Airbus A330 with 254 seats. The route will be Jet Airways [read more]

Primera launches at Birmingham
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Primera Air to start Birmingham to New York with 757

Low-cost airline Primera Air began services from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) this week with flights to New York starting on Friday 18th May. The airline’s operation at Birmingham got underway on Monday with the first flight to Malaga and Palma from the Midlands airport. Primera, like many other airlines, is being hit by [read more]