Aviation news and insight from England
Iberia’s subsidiary airline Iberia Express is set for a winter schedule between Newcastle Airport to Madrid, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria. The flights will operate from 26th December 2020 to 3rd January 2021. This will be the first time the North East of England will be served by Iberia Express, which was [read more]
Manchester Airport is playing host to a special employment event today (3rd October) for former Thomas Cook staff where 5,000 roles are on offer. Manchester was one of the biggest areas hit by the collapse of the travel firm which hit not only employees but the Thomas Cooks’s supply chain. [read more]
Ryanair subsidiary Lauda (OE/LDM) is to launch flights from Vienna (VIE/LOWW) to Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) from March next year. The twice-weekly flights will be operated by an Airbus A320 and will run on Sundays and Wednesdays. The Sunday flight will leave Vienna at 10:00hrs arriving at Bristol at 11:35hrs and [read more]
Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) saw its latest airline get direct flights to Sarajevo underway yesterday. FlyBosnia (6W/FBS) flew its inaugural flight from Luton to Sarajevo (SJJ/LOSA) after being sent off from Luton with the traditional water cannon salute. FlyBosnia CEO Tarik Bilalbegović said: “It is a great pleasure for me to [read more]
London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has enjoyed its busiest summer ever with 5.3 million passengers passing through the airport in August alone. The airport says that the most popular destinations included Malaga, Barcelona, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca and Tel-Aviv. Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said: “The summer period is always a [read more]
Growing regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has announced that it is launching six new routes from UK airports in 2020 including its first route from Wales. The new routes are the latest to be announced under Loganair’s ‘Where next?’ programme, which is designed to expand the airline’s route network across the [read more]
Slovenian airline Adria Airways (JP/ADR) is set to launch direct flights from Ljubljana (LJU/LJLJ) to Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) com May 2020. The twice-weekly flight will operate using a Bombardier CRJ900 regional jet flying on Wednesdays and Saturdays. ADR472/43 will operate on Wednesday leaving Ljubljana at 06:35, arriving at Liverpool at 08:00; [read more]
Loganair’s (LM/LOG) latest jet routes have got underway from Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) and East Midlands (EMA/EGNX) airports. Aberdeen’s new jet routes to Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) and Norwich (NWI/EGSH) got underway yesterday (1st September) and East Midlands new routes to Inverness and Brussels launched today. All the routes are being operated by a [read more]
London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) has begun the planning process it needs to put the northern runway, which is currently a standby runway, into use on a regular basis. Runway 08L/26R has a length of 8481ft compared to 10,880 feet on the main runway and sits around 400ft to the north [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is to restart flights to the Greek island of Lemnos for summer 2020. The UK charter airline last flew to the island in 2014 but from 25th May 2020 package holidays will available for the island from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) Lemnos is currently only served by British [read more]
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