Airline news

Unite, the union representing British Airways Cabin Crew, Ground Staff and Engineers has told its members that it believes it is British Airways’s intention to move ahead with its original “fire and rehire” plan. As a result, the Union has told its members that “The intention is to defend out [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR), the Irish budget airline, has announced a loss of €185m for Quarter 1 of 2020. Whilst massive, the loss is unsprising as the quarter included an almost total grounding of air traffic due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The airline says that traffic fell 99% during the period. Ryanair [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has said it has reached an agreement with the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) over the future of pilots employed by the airline. According to BALPA the deal will see 270 pilots being made redundant and pay cuts of up to 20% for the remaining flight crew. [read more]

Wizz Air UK (W9/WUK) has confirmed it is adding 5 new routes from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW). The new routes start from 7th August and include 4 Spanish and 1 Greek destination. Based at London Luton, Wizz Air UK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of its Hungarian parent airline, Wizz Air. [read more]

The UK’s largest tour operator, TUI, has confirmed it will be resuming flights from Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) from 25th July. The TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) Boeing 737’s and 757’s are usually a familiar sight at the West Country airport but flights were grounded due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Now blue [read more]

Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is officially open again from today as Wizz Air resumes operations from the Northern regional airport. Wizz Air will operate 3 flights from the airport today to Riga, Krakow and Vilnius first flight leaving at 17:55 local time. The airport has put in place strict measures [read more]

Low-cost carrier Easyjet (U2/EZY) has announced that it is to close three UK bases and cut over 4,000 jobs. The airline is proposed to close bases at London Southend (SEN/EGMC), Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) and London Stansted (STN/EGSS) as it begins a consultation period begins on Tuesday. The airline recently announced it [read more]