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Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has rejected the UK Government’s 14-day quarantine calling it “ineffective and useless”. The airline says that for a quarantine to be effective it needs to detain passengers upon arrival to the UK but under the UK Government’s plans the mobile numbers of arriving passengers will [read more]

Travel giant TUI, which includes TUI UK, has reached a “comprehensive” compensation deal with Boeing over the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. While the details of the deal are confidential TUI says that is made up of a significant amount of financial compensation as well as credits against [read more]

The Royal Air Force has confirmed that the 2020 RAF Cosford Airshow has been officially cancelled. The organisers originally postponed the event hoping to run the airshow later in 2020 but say they are now clear that the precautions necessary to safely run the airshow under guidelines to prevent the [read more]

Canadian airframer Bombardier has completed its departure from the commercial aircraft market following the sale of its CRJ series to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd for $550m (£439m). Bombardier has built commercial airlines for 3 decades and has brought aircraft including the Dash 8, C-Series and CRJ models. The rights to [read more]

A run & cycle event on the runway at London Southend airport last week has raised over £6000 for the NHS. The team of 40 participants were joined by Southend East MP James Durridge for the event which saw them aim to run and cycle 290km (180 miles). They actually [read more]

Pressure is growing on British Airways (BA/BAW) as the BA Betrayal campaign gets support from well known faces across social media. The campaign set up by Unite aims to bring public attention to the planned blanket dismissal of all British Airways staff and the re-employment of some onto new contracts [read more]

The British School of Aviation (BSA) is marking its re-opening by offering a complimentary place on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner Engineeer type-rating course. The six-week-long course will be the first face to face training carried out by the school since February. BSA is based at London Luton and normally operates [read more]

The pilot of a Cirrus SR22 (G-CTAM) was able to avoid a potentially fatal crash by deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) earlier today. The aircraft was on a flight from Dunkeswell Airfield in Exeter to Lee-On-Solent before the pilot lost control of the aircraft for an unknown reason [read more]