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Thyme OpCo LTD, the operating company behind the attempted resurrection of Flybe, has officially put a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 on the UK register. According to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) G-INFO database, the 22-year old former Austrian Airlines aircraft is now registered as G-CLXC having been previously registered as OE-LGA. [read more]

The Government of Norway has said it will support and contribute to the capital of Norwegian Air Shuttle just two-months after it refused further support for the struggling carrier. Since then the airline has entered a restructuring process under an “examinership scheme” in Ireland and a “supplementary reconstruction” process in [read more]

A West Atlantic Boeing 737 cargo aircraft has suffered substantial damage after a “hard landing” at Exeter Airport. The incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning after a flight from East Midlands Airport. The aircraft involved was Boeing 737-400 G-JMCY. Images widely shared on social media show substantial [read more]

Boeing has ended 2020 with a torrid looking order book that saw it have net orders for -1,026 aircraft, no, the minus is not a typo! The Seattle based airframer was impacted largely loss of orders for the Boeing 737 Max which over the year saw a net loss of [read more]

The UK’s biggest regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it is launching a direct service between Teesside International (MME/EGNV) and London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL). The service will initially operate twice-daily on Monday to Friday from 8th March with a single flight on Sundays. This will increase on 28th March to add [read more]

The UK Government is set to open the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme for English Airports in response to desperate calls for help from the industry. Aviation minister Robert Courts made the announcement saying that is was in response to the closure of air travel corridors from 04:00 tomorrow. [read more]

There has only ever been two fatal accidents involving Supersonic Transport (SST) aircraft and in a bizarre twist of fate, despite happening 27 years apart, they happened less than 4 km apart. Two supersonic airlines have been built and flown, The anglo-french designed Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev TU-144, dubbed [read more]

The Airport Operators Association (AOA), which represents UK airports, has warned that airports may have to close without government assistance following the removal of safe travel corridors. Some of airports in the UK have seen an almost complete drop in traffic as a result of the Coronvirus pandemic and even [read more]