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Tickets for Virgin Atlantic’s unique Boeing 747 pop-up dining experience will go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning. The event, which takes place on the 12th December at Heathrow Airport, will see guests enjoy a three-course dinner on the upper class deck a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400, known as the [read more]

Southwest Airlines Captain Ted Orris saw a teenager taking photos during a layover in 2015 and after going to talk to him, ended up becoming his mentor and guiding him into a career as professional aviation photographer. The young man was Ryan Patterson and when Ryan found out Ted was [read more]

The Wales Air Ambulance Charity (WAAC) will now operate their helicopters around the clock thanks for a new double-pilot crew operation which started on the 1st December 2020. Having two pilots on crew means that the Air Ambulance can reach anywhere in Wales during the night from its bases at [read more]

Several Typhoons and more than 130 RAF personnel have arrived for what will be the first joint exercise for No.12 RAF Squadron in Qatar. The two-week Epic Skies exercise will see pilots from the Royal Air Force and the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) fly and maintain the Typhoon, while [read more]

Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air is set to launch a permanent base at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGGF) creating around 40 jobs in March 2021. The airline will offer nine routes to destinations including Alicante, Faro and Tenerife as well as seasonal routes to Corfu and Palma. Sharm El Sheikh and Lanzarote [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has given Boeing a boost with an order for 75 more Boeing 737 Max 8 200s as part of a deal with the planemaker over compensation for the delay of its original Max order. The deal will bring Ryanair’s 737 Max order up to around 210 units with [read more]

Tomorrow (3rd December) will see the last ever departure of a Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) Boeing 747-400 from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The moment will come when G-VXLG departs at around 9 am (local) to start its new life in Tel Aviv. The 22-year-old aircraft is the last 747 to leave the [read more]

Some might say that launching a brand new magazine in the current climate is simply crazy but sometimes passion outweighs everything else and that’s exactly what Ken Carr has done with LHR Magazine. Published by Visions International Entertainment Ltd the new bi-monthly magazine is packed full of features and news [read more]