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On the 4th October 1958 the first ever jet powered airliner to fly across the Atlantic took off from London bound for New York. The BOAC Comet 4 aircraft did the flight in 7 hours shaving 11 hours off the previous crossing time. More importantly for British Airways, then known [read more]
Budget long haul airline Norwegian.com has announced it is launching domestic flights in Argentina allowing passengers travelling from London Gatwick to Buenos Aires to connect to six destinations across the South American country. A fleet of Norwegian Boeing 737-800 aircraft will operate flights from Buenos Aires to Córdoba & Mendoza from [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is extending its lease on an Air Belgium A340 as it continues to cover the London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) service. The A340-300, a type British Airways has never operated, is providing cover for the Boeing 787’s that normally operate the route as they are [read more]
Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) save lives, especially in rural or remote locations where professional help will take longer to arrive. This isn’t theory, its fact and its the reason why you are starting to see AEDs in more and more places such as villages and public spaces. An AED, as [read more]
Low-cost, long-haul specialist Norwegian.com has been unveiled as the most fuel efficient transatlantic airline, for the second year in a row. The white paper that was released today by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) analysed the fuel efficiency of the 20 leading airlines on routes between Europe and [read more]
Low-cost carrier Norwegian.com is ending its long haul service from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to Singapore (SIN/WSSS). The flight currently operates 4 times-per-week but will end on 10th January 2019, the last return flight will operate on the 11th January 2019. The Singapore service has fallen victim to dwindling passenger numbers [read more]
Summer at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has been a busy one and thanks to nearly a million passengers, August was the busiest month in the history of the airport. The main summer holiday month saw 951,973 passengers pass through its terminal bringing the summer total to 1.8 million passenger, nearly 7% [read more]
Today is the anniversary of a mid-air collision over Yugoslavia, a crash that is one of the worst air disasters to involve a British airline, and the 3rd deadliest mid-air collision in history. It is also the only fatal accident in the history of British Airways. On the 10th September [read more]
European aerospace company Airbus has said it is planning to add its aeronautical expertise to an innovation that could revolutionize maritime transport. The SeaWing is a fully automated para-foil kite which is deployed from the front of the ship in order to “tow” the vessel through the water providing an [read more]
Austrian low-fares airline Laudamotion has announced it plans to double its Airbus fleet now the Ryanair’s 75% share purchase is complete. The Irish budget airline’s investment has allowed Laudamotion to purchase an additional 9 Airbus A320 aircraft which will be delivered across Summer 2019. The new aircraft will bring the [read more]
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