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British Airways (BA/BAW) is restarting a route between London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The flight will operate daily from 28th March 2021 and shows that British Airways does still aim to operate flights from Gatwick and to maintain its valuable slots. British Airways services at London Gatwick all [read more]

Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has flown in some extra Christmas cheer as it delivered packages to a group of Scottish food banks. Due to its reduced flying programme in 2020 the airline has saved on providing in-flight catering and has used the cash to donate to food banks in [read more]

The EcoPulse Hybrid aircraft being developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus has successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR), a key milestone in the development of the aircraft. The PDR is a key step towards validating the project’s feasibility as well as firming up the architecture towards a first flight [read more]

Workers employed by Heathrow Airport are carrying out strike action over 3 days this week in a protest about proposed pay cuts. Staff that are members of the Unite Union are ramping up strike action with action today, and also on Thursday 17th December and Friday 18th December. Todays action [read more]

Turkish-German airline Sun Express (XQ/SXS) is set to launch a direct flight from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Antalya in Turkey in 2021. The service will begin on the 26th March 2021 and will initially operate twice-weekly before increasing to four-flights-per-week from 30th May 2021. “After a year of staying at [read more]

The number of off-world projects currently in development is staggering.Earlier this month China’s Chang-E 5 landed on the moon to collect up to 2kg of regolith samples and return them to Earth. This is a short mission – Get up, Get rocks, Get home – but even this takes years [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has been banned from flying passengers into Hong Kong until 25th December after a flight landed in Hong Kong on 8th December with four passengers who tested positive for COVID-19. In addition to the four COVID-19 positive passengers, one passenger also failed to comply with prevention requirements. [read more]

Aer Lingus has filed for permission to operate a number of UK to US routes using its new subsiduary, Aer Lingus UK. Aer Lingus UK is currently in the process of obtaining an Air Operators Certificate (AoC) from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority and is hoping to launch transatlantic flights [read more]