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Norwegian increases Gatwick to Boston frequency

18/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Norwegian has said it plans to increase the frequency of its London Gatwick to Boston service from June 2018. The service, which currently operates 4-times per week will increase to daily from 12th June. Norwegian Air International operates the transatlantic service from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to Boston Logan (BOS/KBOS) using a [read more]

Ryanair in talks for NIKI assets

15/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has confirmed it is in contact with administrators for the former Air Belin owned NIKI with a view to purchasing NIKI assets. NIKI entered administration yesterday when Lufthansa pulled out of a deal to buy the subsidiary as regulators were concerned about a monopoly. Ryanair is looking [read more]

Air Berlin’s NIKI to Cease Operations

14/12/2017 3 minute read
Written by: William Hogarth

German carrier Lufthansa shocked the aviation industry yesterday when the announcement came they were to abandon a deal to buy defunct Air Berlins leisure carrier, NIKI leaving the airline insolvent. The news means that the Austrian leisure carrier has now been forced to cancel all flights from December 14th after [read more]

Airbus draws giant Christmas tree over Germany

13/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Airbus has drawn a giant Christmas tree over Germany on a test flight of a new Airbus A380. The flight from Airbus’ A380 assembly facility in Hamburg took at 12:47 and proceeded to draw out the Christmas tree which could be clearly seen by users of websites such as Flightradar24, Flightaware and Plane [read more]

Cardiff Airport growth slows but still up on 2016

12/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

According to the latest figures released by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for October, growth at Cardiff Airport had slowed compared to previous months. The figures show that 134,349 passengers used the Welsh Government owned airport in October 2017, a 4.1% rise over the same period last year but [read more]

Virgin changes to A330-200 at Manchester

12/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Virgin Atlantic is changing some A330 routes at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to the smaller -200 version in 2018. Starting from March ’18, flights from Manchester to Atlanta (ATL/KATL) and New York (JFK/KJFK) will use the smaller Airbus A330 variant and from May ’18, Barbados (BGI/TBPB), Boston (BOS/KBOS) and San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) [read more]

Thomas Cook to add Manchester to Marrakech in Winter 2018

08/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) (MT/TCX) is planning to launch a service from Manchester to Marrakech starting in winter 2018. The UK holiday airline will operate the service twice-weekly using one of the airlines A321 aircraft. Marrakech is the 4th largest city in Morocco and is home one of the best Medinas [read more]

Rolls-Royce facing fresh troubles with 787 engine faults

07/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Air New Zealand is the latest airline that has been forced to cancel flights due to what it described as “engine events” in their Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powered Dreamliners have been involved in a raft of recent engine issues which started with issues reported [read more]

Supersonic Airliner gets backing from 2nd airline

05/12/2017 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

A proposed supersonic airliner has received backing in the form of investment and options from Japan Airlines (JL/JAL), the 2nd airline to do so. The Japanese flag carrier is investing $10m in Colorado based Boom which is planning to build the first commercial supersonic airliner since Concorde, a plane that [read more]

Airbus appoints sales chief to replace John Leahy

29/11/2017 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

European airframer Airbus has appointed Eric Shulz to replace John Leahy as Chief of Sales, Marketing & Contracts for the company’s Commercial Aircraft business. Mr Shulz, who joins the company from Rolls-Royce, will take over the role in January 2018 and will report directly to Airbus CEO Tom Enders. Eric Schulz [read more]