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British Airways (BA/BAW) has confirmed it has found homes for its two remaining BA100 retro liveried Boeing 747s. The airline has been working hard to ensure the preservation of the three heritage jets since the retirement of the Boeing 747s was announced by British Airways earlier this year. It has [read more]

Loganair (LM/LOG) is to launch a second direct connection to the Channel Islands from Scotland for Summer 2021. The Scottish airline will begin a twice-weekly service from Edinburgh to Jersey from 22nd May 2021 using a 70-seat ATR72. Kay Ryan, Loganair’s chief commercial officer, said: “We are excited by the [read more]

On Saturday (28th November) RAF Typhoons were launched from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept two Russian Tu-142 Bear F aircraft. The Typhoons, which were scrambled to intercept the Russian reconnaissance aircraft, were joined by a Voyager air-to-air refuelling aircraft from RAF Brize Norton. The Tupolev Tu-142, NATO reporting name Bear F, [read more]

The Worldwide Airport Slot Board (WASB) has called on airport slot regulators to adopt a new set of principles rather than a carte blanche waiver on the 80/20 slot rule. The 80/20 rule means that airlines have to use their slots 80% of the time of face losing them but [read more]

Low-cost carrier EasyJet (U2/EZY) and its package holiday arm EasyJet Holidays will offer reduced-price COVID-19 tests to help its customers take advantage of the new Test and Release rules on quarantine. Passengers returning to the UK from countries not on the safe travel list currently have to quarantine for 14-days [read more]

Ryanair has launched its Cyber Monday sale by offering 10,000 seats for just £5. The offer is available on flights in December 2020 and January 2021 across 500 of the Irish low-cost airlines routes. Ryanair’s Director of Marketing, Dara Brady said: “Ryanair is here to banish the Monday blues with this [read more]

US-based low-cost airline JetBlue (B6/JBU) will start transatlantic flights from Boston and New York to London but without their desired route to Heathrow after the UK’s slot regulator Airport Coordination Ltd (ACL) denied a request for 48 slot pairs at the UK’s biggest airport. As a result, JetBlue has been [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced a 24-hour long cyber-weekend sale with £25 OFF return flights across 1,600 routes. The airline is offering the discount on flights between 1st December 2020 and 31st January 2021. The offer will allow people to jump on a flight to find some winter sun, or snow [read more]