News from the world of Civil aviation and air travel. Including UK airlines and airports.
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]
Flight tracking website Flightradar24 has said on 18th June it has tracked more than 50,000 flights in one day for the first time since 24th March. The increase in the number of flights tracked comes as airlines start to reinstate flights that were cut as a result of the unprecedented [read more]
Spanish flag carrier Iberia (IB/IBE) has confirmed the retirement of its remaining Airbus A340 fleet. The news that that the airline would bring forward the retirement its final 14 Airbus A340-600 aircraft was given to staff in an internal memo and later confirmed by the airline. Iberia is the only [read more]
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]
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