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British Airways has announced that its baby retro jet, the BEA Airbus A319, will fly at the Jersey Airshow this September. The specially painted Airbus A319 G-EUPJ has been painted in the British European Airways (BEA) livery as part of the airlines 100 year anniversary, BA100. BEA was was one [read more]
Brazillian aircraft manufacturer Embraer turned 50 yesterday and the company celebrated with a special event bringing together employees, authorities and commercial partners at company’s São José dos Campos headquarters in Brazil. From humble beginnings, the company has grown to become the third-largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus and has [read more]
UK Charter Airline Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has changed the route of its one-off charter to Cairns, Australia in 2020. The flight leaves the London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) on 8th January 2020 and was originally due to operate via Goa, India (GOI/VOGO) but a change to the scheduling now means it will [read more]
Delta Airlines (DL/DAL) is set to return to Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) next year as it starts to share the Manchester to Boston Route (BOS/KBOS) with Virgin Atlantic. Delta is set to begin flying the route from 21st May 2020 and it has now been confirmed that the route will be [read more]
Iceland is known as the land of fire and ice thanks to its location within the arctic circle and its geothermal activity making it one of the most contrasting places you can visit and that’s perhaps why its become so popular with Brits looking for an adventurous break. The Icelandic [read more]
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (RAFAT) ‘The Red Arrows’ are to fly alongside 3 other American display teams to fly over New York on Thursday 22nd August. The nine iconic red BAe Hawk T1’s will fly with the US Navy (USN) display team, the Blue Angels, FA/18 Hornets, The [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has entered into an agreement with Norwegian regional airline Widerøe to offer seamless connectivity across Norway for Loganair passengers. Passengers arriving into Bergen or Stavanger from Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) will be able to interline onward to Alesund, Floro, Kristiansund, Tromso, Bodo and Molde with Kristiansand and Sandefjord-Torp. While passengers [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is preparing its Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft for its first long-haul service next month. G-XWBA, which recently joined the British Airways fleet, is due to fly its first long haul service to Dubai (DXB/OMDB) on the 2nd September 2019 and the airline is busy putting the aircraft through [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has unveiled its new “Flying Icon” nose art on its brand new Airbus A350-1000XWB G-VLUX ‘Red Velvet’. Virgin aircraft have always carried the companies famous Flying Lady which is based on the pin-up girls made famous in the 1930s and 1940s by Peruvian artist Alberto Vargas. The new [read more]
Low-cost airline Norwegian is to end all transatlantic flights from Ireland from the 15th Septemeber 2019 after undertaking a review of its services. Currently Norwegian flies six routes to the USA and Canada from Dublin, Cork and Shannon which were set up to be operated by the airlines Boeing 737 [read more]
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