Airline news

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is launching new direct services from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Islamabad and London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Lahore & Islamabad. Both services will start in December 2020 with the Lahore service operating 3 times-per-week and the Islamabad service operating 4 times-per-week. Virgin Atlantic said “We’re thrilled to let [read more]

Manchester Airport parent company, Manchester Airports Group (MAG), has become the latest airport operator to voice concern over the governments inaction on aviation. As we head to the Bank Holiday weekend, Manchester Airport is expecting to see just 25,000 passengers pass through its terminals, a fraction of the 115,000 on [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is adding 14 extra weekly flights from UK airports to Faro following the UK Governments decision to put Portugal back on the Coronavirus safe list. The move will make it easier for British holiday makers to travel to the Algarve without the need to quarantine [read more]

Cardiff Airport’s interim CEO, Spencer Birns, has joined calls for the UK Government to provide assistance to the Aviation industry and warned that without it they risk “more airlines going out of business and airports starting to close down as a result”. Wales’ only commercial airport has been severely impacted [read more]

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) is doubling flights to Aberdeen and Belfast from Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) from 7th September. The Aberdeen service will operate twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with an additional flight on Sundays. Belfast City will become twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with new weekend routes for leisure [read more]

Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has announced that it will be closing the airports Terminal Two once again, just weeks after it reopened. The airport originally shut the terminal, along with Terminal Three during the lockdown period of the Coronavirus Pandemic when traffic fell to almost zero but reopened them both in [read more]

Loganair (LM/LOG) has confirmed it is taking over full control of the Isle of Man to London City from British Airways from 1st September 2020. The route is already operated by Loganair but tickets are sold by British Airways. Loganair’s Chief commercial officer Kay Ryan said:  “We understand the importance [read more]

Iberia, TUI Airways UK and Pegasus are all relaunching flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) this week which means passengers using the airport now have a choice of 120 destinations. Pegasus is resuming flights to Dalaman, Turkey and TUI Airways UK is adding Larnaca & Paphos in Cyrpus as well as [read more]