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UK Aviation Industry rocked by 5,700 job losses in 24 hours

01/07/2020 Written by: Nick Harding 3 minute read

Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport re-opens with Wizz Air flights

01/07/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News < 1 minute read

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is officially open again from today as Wizz Air resumes operations from the Northern regional airport. Wizz Air will operate 3 flights from the airport today to Riga, Krakow and Vilnius first flight leaving at 17:55 local time. The airport has put in place strict measures [read more]

Easyjet to cut jobs as it closes 3 bases

30/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding 2 minute read

Low-cost carrier Easyjet (U2/EZY) has announced that it is to close three UK bases and cut over 4,000 jobs. The airline is proposed to close bases at London Southend (SEN/EGMC), Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) and London Stansted (STN/EGSS) as it begins a consultation period begins on Tuesday. The airline recently announced it [read more]

Norwegian cancels 97 Boeing aircraft

30/06/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News < 1 minute read

Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian) has issued a notice of termination to Boeing in order to cancel 5 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 92 Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Norwegian has issued the notice after talks with Boeing have failed to get a satisfactory solution to the 737 Max grounding. The airline will [read more]

Commercial flights set to resume at Cardiff Airport

29/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding 2 minute read

Commercial passenger flights are to get underway again at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) when Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) restart flying from Wales’ national airport this week. Flights to Malaga (AGP/LEMG) and Faro (FAO/LPFR) will restart again on the 3rd July with departures at 10:20 and 19:25 respectively. Shortly after Ryanair [read more]

Sun claims British Airways reaches deal to cut 600 pilots

28/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding 2 minute read

British Airways (BA/BAW) has reportedly come to a deal with the pilots that will see 300 job permanent job losses and another 300 will be placed in a “talent pool” to be rehired when needed. Tabloid newspaper ‘The Sun’ has reported the deal but the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) [read more]

A BA Cityflyer Embraer E190 taxis out at London City Airport (Aviation Media Agency)

BA Cityflyer outlines its restart at London City Airport

26/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding < 1 minute read

British Airways subsidiary BA Cityflyer (CJ/CFE) has outlined its return to flying as London City Airport reopens for commercial flights. The airline operates domestic and European flights from London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) which is its main base. BA Cityflyer normally operates on 32 routes from London City but will initially [read more]

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Singapore Airlines outlines summer flights to UK

25/06/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News < 1 minute read

Singapore Airlines (SQ/SIA) has clarified its planned flight schedule for July 2020 but it only includes one UK airport. Pre-pandemic Singapore Airlines operated daily to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC), the latter also continuing on to Houston in the U.S. The post-pandemic schedule though looks very different with just [read more]

Virgin Atlantic to open up 17 more routes in August

22/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding 2 minute read

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) recently announced it was to resume passenger flights from London Heathrow from 20th July but only to limited destinations. The initial offering included just Orlando, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York JFK and Shanghai but has now delayed the resumption of the Heathrow – Orlando service to [read more]

Eastern Airways resumes flights from Southampton & Teesside

22/06/2020 Written by: Nick Harding < 1 minute read

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has resumed flights from Southampton & Teesside Airports today as it looks to slowly build back up its flight programme. Starting today the Southampton (SOU/EGHI) to Belfast City (BHD/EGAC), Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) routes have restarted as well as Teesside (MME/EGNV) to Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) and Belfast [read more]