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British Airways (BA/BAW) has reportedly come to a deal with the pilots that will see 300 job permanent job losses and another 300 will be placed in a “talent pool” to be rehired when needed. Tabloid newspaper ‘The Sun’ has reported the deal but the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) [read more]
British Airways subsidiary BA Cityflyer (CJ/CFE) has outlined its return to flying as London City Airport reopens for commercial flights. The airline operates domestic and European flights from London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) which is its main base. BA Cityflyer normally operates on 32 routes from London City but will initially [read more]
Singapore Airlines (SQ/SIA) has clarified its planned flight schedule for July 2020 but it only includes one UK airport. Pre-pandemic Singapore Airlines operated daily to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC), the latter also continuing on to Houston in the U.S. The post-pandemic schedule though looks very different with just [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) recently announced it was to resume passenger flights from London Heathrow from 20th July but only to limited destinations. The initial offering included just Orlando, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York JFK and Shanghai but has now delayed the resumption of the Heathrow – Orlando service to [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has resumed flights from Southampton & Teesside Airports today as it looks to slowly build back up its flight programme. Starting today the Southampton (SOU/EGHI) to Belfast City (BHD/EGAC), Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) routes have restarted as well as Teesside (MME/EGNV) to Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) and Belfast [read more]
Air China (CA/CCA, the flag carrier of China, is adding another series of charters from Mainland China to the UK. The planned charter flights to Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) and London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) cover the period from the tomorrow through to the end of July. They will be operated by a mixture [read more]
London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) recommenced commercial operations today when Loganair’s flight LM3287 landed from the Isle of Man. The flight was expected to land at 18:10 but touched down at 17:33 ending a near 3-month period for the Airport where it only saw military traffic using it for training and [read more]
Iranian flag carrier Iran Air (IR/IRA) has confirmed that it is starting a weekly flight from Tehran (IKA/OIIE) to Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from 4th July. The weekly flight will operate on a Saturday using one of the airlines two Airbus A330-200. The route will be the airlines second destination in [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has resumed flights to destiantions including mainland Spain from today, 10 days ahead of their planned restart. The move came as Spain opened its borders once again allowing UK travellers into the popular holiday destination without the need to quarantine. Spain was one of the [read more]
United Airlines (UA/UAL) has confirmed it will not be restarting flights from Manchester Airport in 2020. The Chicago, Illinois based airline previously operated a flight between Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) and New York Liberty (EWR/KEWR) and had been due to restart operations on the 24th October after a spring and summer [read more]
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