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The UK Government has today announced air bridges to 59 countries which will allow travellers to fly to them without the need to quarantine for 14-days on return. The countries pose what the government calls a “reduced risk” of coronavirus transmission and include some of the most popular holiday destinations [read more]

A TUI Boeing 787 Dreamliner was damaged as it’s engine hit a jet bridge during a routine tow to gate on Thursday. A state-of-the art Boeing 787 collided with a jet bridge at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on Thursday, causing damage to the engine nacelle and requiring an aircraft swap for [read more]

As much as airlines have been hit by the Corona pandemic, the same can be said of Air Traffic Control (ATC). Income is mostly obtained from aircraft movements, it therefore follows when such movements are down so is the cash flow to ATC! This has been compounded in Europe by [read more]

Airbus’ wing production facility at Broughton, North Wales will see the majority of the 1,700 job cuts to made in the UK. Over 1,400 jobs will be lost at the site which produces wings for all Airbus commercial airliners except the A220 the biggest ever blow to jobs at the [read more]

Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]

The CEO of Israeli airline El Al, Gonen Usishkin, today ordered all El Al flights to return to Israel as the airline cancelled all passenger and cargo flights until further notice. The airline is in the midst of a financial crisis which has prompted pilots unions to say they would [read more]

Ryanair dealt an embarrassing blow to Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford today when it rejected calls from him to not operate flights from Cardiff Airport until he relaxes travel in Wales. Mr Drakeford had written to the airline insisting that the flights to Malaga and Faro should not go ahead [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is officially open again from today as Wizz Air resumes operations from the Northern regional airport. Wizz Air will operate 3 flights from the airport today to Riga, Krakow and Vilnius first flight leaving at 17:55 local time. The airport has put in place strict measures [read more]