News from the world of Civil aviation and air travel. Including UK airlines and airports.
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced an expansion at Aberdeen Airport (ABZ/EGPD) which will see the creation of 20 new jobs at the Scottish airport. The airline announced the restoration of a year-round route to Oslo, Norway which will operate 6 days per week Sunday through to Friday from 13th [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has won its appeal against a decision by North Somerset to block its plans to expand the airport to cater for 12 million passengers per year. North Somerset Council voted not to approve the plans after a campaign by paid protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion despite [read more]
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has marked its 60th anniversary as an airline by extending its codeshare with British Airways (BA/BAW), British Airways passengers will now be able to use more Loganair services to connect around the UK or direct point to point travel via the British Airways website meaning they [read more]
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]
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