Airline news

The UK’s leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has launched its new routes from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) as it switches flights from outlying London airports. The new routes will operate from Terminal 2 at London Heathrow and include Derry, previously operated from London Stansted and Dundee, previously operated from London City. [read more]

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has resumed flights to China today for the first time since 2020 as it relaunches its London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Shanghai (PVG/ZSPD) service. The move will help to re-establish import business and leisure connections between the UK and China and also provide additional cargo capacity between the [read more]

Portuguse flag carrier TAP Air Portugal has launched a “super sale” for UK and Irish passengers looking to visit Portugal or travel via Lisbon. The sale sees fares from the UK to Lisbon and Porto as low as £89 with the holiday islands of Madeira and the Azores just £218 [read more]

The UK’s leading regional airliner Loganair (LM/LOG) is set to launch a raft of new domestic routes from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) after they were approved by the UK Government. Following the acquisition of additional slot pairs, the airline aims to connect Dundee, Derry, Orkney and Shetland with the UK’s capital. [read more]

Just over a year after launching transatlantic flights from Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to New York (JFK/KJFK), Aer Lingus UK (EG/EUK) is upgrading the route from a long-range Airbus A321 to an Airbus A330. The move will see the airline being able to offer 72% more seats on each flight by moving [read more]

Icelandair (FI/ICE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airbus for 13 Airbus A321XLRs to replace its ageing Boeing 757 airliners. The MoU also includes options for a further 12 of the type making it a deal potentially worth 25 Airbus A321s. Icelandair is already in talks to lease [read more]

Baku based Azerbaijan Airlines has placed an order with Airbus for 12 A320neo aircraft including my the A320neo and A321neo. The airline currently operates a 15 strong fleet of Airbus aircraft including 2 x A340s, 4 x A319ceo, 6 x A320ceo and 2 x A320neo. The plan is to further [read more]

Flights that had planned to use French airspace are being re-routed or cancelled today as the country’s Air Traffic Controllers join the general strike in protest to the raising of the pension age from 62-64. Ryanair was one airline that took to social media complaining about the cancellations it was [read more]