Airline news

Children under the care of CHAS, Scotland’s only child palliative care charity, have been treated to an eggcellent air experience thanks to Loganair (LM/LOG). The children and their families were taken on a special flight from Glasgow Airport around the Scottish highlands and islands. Loganair’s very own Easter bunny kicked [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has opened its two aircraft summer base at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) bringing 10 new routes and 60 directly-employed jobs to the North-East. The new base will see Ryanair fly a total of 19 routes from Newcastle and up to 130 flights per week. New routes [read more]

IT problems have once again struck ‘Britain’s favourite airline’ British Airways (BA/BAW) leaving hundreds of passengers stranded and delayed yesterday. The global outage for the airline is the second major one this year leaving many questioning whether British Airways has made bad decisions on its IT infrastructure Airlines use IT [read more]

The reincarnation of failed regional carrier Flybe has finally put its first flights on sale, with the first flight on 13th April 2022. From its bases in Birmingham and Belfast it will serve 16 airports across the UK and Northern Europe. The first route to commence will be a four-times-daily [read more]

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) have announced the creation of a brand new air service from Humberside (HUY/EGNJ) to Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) from April this year. The service will initially operate twice-weekly on a Monday and Friday from 1st April in a bid to increase connectivity between the Humber and Yorkshire [read more]

The UK’s leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced its most ambitious winter schedule for the Winter 2022/2023 season as it rides on the post-COVID recovery of air travel. The Glasgow based airline, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, will be continuing the new routes which are launching this summer [read more]

Manchester Airport Group (MAG) says it is expecting the February half-term to be one of the busiest periods it has had since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group says it is expecting around 1.5 million passengers to pass through Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) and London [read more]

The reborn Flybe, which is due to launch in the coming months, has come under fire from the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) over apparent confidentiality rules being forced on its pilots. The Telegraph has cited ‘industry sources’ as saying that pilots joining the regional airline are facing “unusually aggressive” [read more]