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US airframer Boeing has confirmed that it is to cease production of the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet with the last ever Boeing 747, a -8F model for UPS, expected to leave Seattle in 2022. We broke the news of the cancellation earlier in July but Boeing confirmed the news came [read more]

GoSkydive, the UK’s leading leading Tandem Skydiving centre, has announced that they have reopened and tandem skydiving has resumed at its base at Old Sarum airfield. Old Sarum closed to private General Aviation in 2019 but GoSkyDive has remained operating from the site operating its skydive experiences in accordance with [read more]

Unite, the union representing British Airways Cabin Crew, Ground Staff and Engineers has told its members that it believes it is British Airways’s intention to move ahead with its original “fire and rehire” plan. As a result, the Union has told its members that “The intention is to defend out [read more]

Jet2 (LS/EXS) has u-turned on its decision to keep flying holidaymakers to Spain after it removed it’s the quarantine section of its “worry free” promise. The airline had insisted it would continue flying to all parts of Spain putting passengers in the position of either canceling and losing their money [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR), the Irish budget airline, has announced a loss of €185m for Quarter 1 of 2020. Whilst massive, the loss is unsprising as the quarter included an almost total grounding of air traffic due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The airline says that traffic fell 99% during the period. Ryanair [read more]

For many, the changes in travel advice and quarantine rules imposed on Spain this weekend have put holidays and travel in disarray and potentially out of pocket. There is no doubt that some will be forced to cancel their travel as a 14-day quarantine on return would be impossible but [read more]

Up to four people are believed to have escaped serious injury earlier today when their helicopter crashed in a field in Kent. A picture, widely shared across social media, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter on its side in a field with significant damage. The crash happened at around 10am with [read more]

UK tour operator TUI has confirmed it has cancelled all holidays to mainland Spain up to and including Sunday 9th August 2020. TUI had cancelled all flights Spain and the Canary Islands today but now says that customers with holidays in the Canary Islands will be able to travel as [read more]