Airline news

The state of summer holidays for UK travellers still remains uncertain despite Government setting out the plans for which foreign air travel can resume from 17th May. Despite this, one of the UK’s leading holiday companies, Jet2 Holidays, has extended its suspension on holidays and flights until June. Passengers wanting [read more]

Low-cost transatlantic travel looks set to arrive at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) this summer after it emerged that JetBlue appears to have been successful in obtaining slots on the 2nd time of trying. Information released by Airport Coordination Ltd, the UK slot regulator appears to show 14 weekly slots allocated to [read more]

Aer Lingus has finally confirmed the transatlantic routes it plans to operate from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) with the first operating to New York and Orlando. In what has been one of the worst kept secrets of modern times, the flights will be operated under Aer Lingus UK with a UK [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has set out its plans for flights in Summer 2021 including 26 new routes from the UK to Europe and a return to Belfast City. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said that he expects travel restrictions to be lifted this summer as the UK’s coronavirus vaccination [read more]

Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford has been accused of double standards after allowing flights between Cardiff Airport and Spain to operate despite Wales still being in full lockdown under his authority. Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies led the calls saying it cannot be right that peoplee can “fly from [read more]

Leading low-cost airline easyJet (U2/EZY) is set to launch flights from Bournemouth Airport (BOH/EGHH) to Belfast and Edinburgh from the end of May 2021. The flights are part of easyJets attempt to boost its domestic services in order to create a strong summer with European air travel looking increasingly less [read more]

A government adviser has indicated that it is “highly unlikely” that Brits will be taking European holidays this summer in another blow to holiday companies. Bookings for Summer holidays have soared in the wake of the roadmap out of lockdown announced by the UK Government but cases of COVID-19 cases [read more]

Data from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority showed that UK airports saw a combined 14.2 million passengers in Summer 2020, the lowest number since 1975. Between July & September, traditionally the busiest month for summer holidays, the drop was 75% on the previous year with some smaller airports reporting no [read more]