News from the world of Civil aviation and air travel. Including UK airlines and airports.
Loganair (LM/LOG) is re-establishing the Belfast City to Glasgow Airport route. The service, which starts on 4th September, will operate twice-daily Monday to Friday and a single flight on a Saturday using an Embraer EMB145 Regional Jet. The routes from Belfast City to Aberdeen and Inverness are due to restart [read more]
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker has warned Boeing and Airbus with litigation if they don’t allow the airline to defer delivery of aircraft beyond 2021. The airline does not want to accept any of the 165 aircraft that are due in the next 2 years until at [read more]
Emirates (EK/UAE) has officially resumed flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) today with the arrival of this mornings flight from Dubai (DXB/OMDB). EK17, a Boeing 777-300ER, touched down at 11:42 local time this morning for the first time since travel restrictions were imposed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Jason [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) has said it will resume flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) from 1st July 2020. Initially the airline will only be operating to Olso and Copenhagen from the UK cities but will announce more routes as the summer moves on. Since the outbreak of [read more]
The Unite Union, which represents the majority of British Airways Staff are planning a vote of no confidence in British Airways CEO Alex Cruz. The moves comes after he said the Transport Select Commitee’s report on the aviation sector as fuelled by “rumours and emotions” rather than fact and that [read more]
A report by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has branded British Airways as a ‘national disgrace’ over its plans to fire all 42,000 employees and rehire 30,000 of them under new contracts with lower pay. The report which was published today recognises that the industry has been badly [read more]
According to a letter seen by us, British Airways (BA/BAW) is offering Voluntarily Redundancy to Cabin Crew on older, more expensive contacts. Currently, British Airways has cabin crew on three different contracts Worldwide, Eurofleet and Mixed Fleet. Recent entrants to the company went on to Mixed Fleet which has a [read more]
A statement from British Airways’ (BA/BAW) parent International Airlines Group (IAG) has said that together with Ryanair (FR/RYR) and Easyjet (U2/EZY) the group is seeking a judicial review of the governments controversial 14-day quarantine scheme. Under the scheme, anyone arriving into the UK, that isn’t from an exempted country, is [read more]
The UK Governments latest piece of airline travel advice, which recommends that passengers use hold luggage instead of carry-on bags, has come under criticism with one airline calling it “rubbish”. The advice from the Department of Transport (DoT) says passengers should minimise carry-on bags and instead check luggage in to [read more]
Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP Gavin Newlands is bringing forward an emergency bill to the House of Commons which, if passed, will prevent companies from dismissing staff and rehiring them on contracts with worse terms. The Employment (Dismissal and Re-employment) Bill is in response to companies like British Airways who [read more]
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