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Turkiye’s newest airline, Southwind Airlines, is launching flights from Antalya, Turkiye to 10 UK airports for Summer 2024 as it looks to expand its route map. Southwind Airline launched in 2022 to continue to connect Russian tourists with Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast and later that year it added flights to Germany [read more]
October 2021 saw the long-awaited launch of transatlantic flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from Aer Lingus and two years on, the airline is seeing strong growth and an expanding network. Aer Lingus (operating as Aer Lingus UK) made the decision to offer a transatlantic service from Manchester based on customer [read more]
Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) remains closed this evening after the earlier runway excursion by a Boeing 737-800 landing in wet and stormy conditions. The Tui airliner was operating a flight from Corfu (TOM3551) when it skidded off the runway coming to rest on the grass. Airport Fire and Rescue vehicles [read more]
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) has completed a multi-million-pound project to protect Stornoway Airport on the Isle of Lewis from coastal erosion that threatened to cause a flood risk at the airport. HIAL identified the need for work to be done the prevent the loss of the sand dunes [read more]
New London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) Chief Executive Officer Thomas Woldbye has officially taken over control of the UK’s largest airport promising a stronger hub delivering sustainability and growth. Thomas Woldbye takes over the helm from John Holland-Kaye, who led the airport for nine years, at a time when Heathrow is [read more]
Routes World 2023 is less than one day away with the great and the good from airlines, airports and aviation stakeholders heading to Istanbul for the 28th annual event. The event is a chance for the global airline industry to discuss route development, where the airline industry is heading and [read more]
A huge fire has closed London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) overnight with flights suspended until at least 3pm The fire broke out in one of the airports multi-storey car parks causing a partial collapse of the structure. Witnesses described an “infermo” in the car park with up to 200 vehicles being [read more]
iGA Istanbul Airport (IST/LTFM), which opened in 2018, is a rising star amongst modern airports and has rapidly become Turkiye’s gateway to the world offering global connections as a significant European & Asian hub. It has now published its sustainability report for 2021-22 which details its roadmap toward Net-Zero which [read more]
Monday’s Air Traffic Control failure of its flight planning system continues to have an effect three days later with cancellations hitting almost 2000 now according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. The worst hit day was Monday which saw 27% of flights from the UK cancelled, some 799 and [read more]
Flights to and from the UK faced delays earlier as the UK’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems experienced a “technical issue”. Airlines warned passengers of delays until the problem is resolved. In a statement, UK Airpsace provider NATs said: “Engineers are working to find and the fix the fault. We [read more]
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