News from the world of Civil aviation including UK airlines and airports.
The UK Government has set out plans to curb the current relaxed slot rules for Summer 2022. Under the current situation the 80/20 rule, where airlines must utilise 80% of their allocation, is suspended but many airlines have called for that to be scrapped to prevent legacy carriers “hoarding slots”. [read more]
Romanian carrier Blue Air is adding a third daily flight between Bucharest Otopeni and London Heathrow from 14th April 2022. The new rotation will be an evening flight arriving at London Heathrow at 19:35 and departing for Bucharest at 20:25. Like the current rotations, it will be operated by a [read more]
The second aircraft to join the flypop fleet has arrived at the start-ups London Stansted (STN/EGSS) base. The second aircraft, Airbus A330 9H-PTP, is also leased from Maltese leasing specialist Hi Fly and will initially be used for zero LOPA cargo flights before flypop launches passenger services later this year. [read more]
Lufthansa’s new service from Liverpool (LPL/EGPP) to Frankfurt will open up a wealth of destinations from the Merseyside airport allowing almost global travel with just 1-stop The four-flights-per-week service launches in May and will see travellers from the Mersey region able to take advantage of single-booking flights from Liverpool to [read more]
Regional airline Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has announced it is launching flights from its home base of Humberside (HUY/EGNJ) to Jersey in the Channel Islands. The new service will commence on 21st May 2022 and run weekly on a Saturday throughout the Summer season until September. Operated by Eastern Airways in [read more]
No one can deny it has been a turbulent couple of years for the aviation industry but signs of recovery are starting to appear and the 2022 outlook is getting more positive by the day with the peak of Omicron apparently behind us. But still, some might say that starting [read more]
UK start-up airline Hans Airways has signed a letter of intent to lease an Airbus A330 aircraft from Spanish airline, Air Europa as it seeks to launch flights this year. Hans Airways is currently in the process of obtaining an Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Civil Aviation Authority and [read more]
Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) is planning to resume flights to the UK this spring for the first time since it was banned from European & UK airspace six months last year. The ban came after it emerged that hundreds of PIA pilots had “dubious” licences with many having paid others [read more]
The new incarnation of British regional airline Flybe has selected Bytron Aviation Systems’ Skybook software for its Flight Dispatch and Operations Systems. The software also includes the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) system that Flybe pilots will use once they commence operations later this year. Edward Pomfrett, Flight Operations Systems Engineer, [read more]
According to the latest Which? airline customer satisfaction survey Ryanair is the worst UK short-haul airline with less than half of its passengers satisfied with the way the airline deals with refunds. The Irish budget airline achieved a customer score of just 60% in the survey but its refund satisfaction [read more]
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