Airline news

Aviation and Aerospace leaders from across the South West met at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) today to discuss working together to help the region meet Net Zero for the aviation industry. Representatives from Rolls Royce, Airbus, easyJet, GKN, Atkins, Vertical Aerospace, Universal Hydrogen and Wood joined the airport to discuss projects [read more]

Ryanair has launched its summer 2022 schedule earlier than normal in a bid to boost passenger confidence and encourage forward booking. The budget airline plans to operate around 1,800 weekly flights across 160 routes from the UK. Keeping with this summers plans, Greece features heavily including Santorini, Rhodes and Chania [read more]

Regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has said that it is ramping up its schedule of flights to the Scottish Islands as COVID-19 travel rules start to relax. The rebuilding of the routes will come in three stages on key dates in May & June. From 3 May… Combined Aberdeen-Kirkwall and Aberdeen-Sumburgh [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is backing Greece as the go to destination this summer for Brits looking for sun. The airline, whose traditional hunting ground is Portugal, Spain and Central Europe, is ramping up flights to Greece from several UK airports. Ryanair is introducing new flights to Santorini, Kos [read more]

Ukranian carrier SkyUp (PQ/SQP) has declared its intentions to launch flights between London Luton Airport and Kiev Boryspil as part of its European expansion. According to RoutesOnline, the airline has said that intends to operate a 3-times-per-week service from 24th June subject to international travel being allowed by that time. [read more]

Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is introducing a Norwich to Exeter connection which begins on 12th July adding to the Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Jersey connections that already exist.      The new connection means that between Loganair and six other airlines including Eastern Airways, 42 out of the 46 domestic routes [read more]

Airbus has slightly increased the tempo of deliveries in March 2021 with 72 aircraft being delivered to 34 customers in the month. The month accounts for almost 60% of the deliveries so far in 2021. Deliveries in March include 4 Airbus A220, 50 A320 family aircraft (57 of which were [read more]

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]