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A Swiss Airbus A220 seen at London City Airport (Image: Max Thrust Digital)

Swiss Airbus A220’s resume flying after grounding

16/10/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Swiss International Airlines (LX/SWR) has resumed operations with its fleet of Airbus A220 aircraft after grounding them yesterday for urgent engine checks. Around 100 flights were cancelled when the fleet was grounded following an incident on a flight between London and Geneva which made an emergency diversion to Paris. The [read more]

Major new aviation centre to open in South Wales

15/10/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Vale of Glamorgan based Caerdav (formerly Cardiff Aviation) haas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Arab Emirates based MOBH Group to create a major new aviation centre in South Wales. The deal will see Caerdav setup and run a ‘centre of excellence’ for commercial aviation training at the [read more]

Flybe at Cardiff Airport (The Aviation Media Agency)

Flybe name to disappear from Airports as Virgin rebrands

15/10/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The Flybe name is set to disappear from airports in 2020 as new owners, Connect Airways Ltd, rebrand the airline as Virgin Connect. As we reported earlier this year, the new owners had always planned to rebrand the regional airline after rescuing it from near collapse and the new name [read more]

easyjet and easyTravelSeat to make flying more accessible

15/10/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Leading low-cost airline easyJet is working with easyTravelSeat in order to make flying more accessible to wheelchair users. easyTravelSeat is a brand new product which is an in-situ transfer sling and seat designed to help wheelchair users transfer safely and comfortably into and out of aircraft seats, enhancing the overall [read more]

Norwegian increases UK -US capacity on key routes

14/10/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Low-cost airline Norwegian has announced an increase in capacity of key routes between the UK and the US. Service increases will occur from March 2020 on routes including San Francisco and Tampa. The airlines says that the increase is demand driven which is backed up by Norwegians high load factor [read more]

RAF Red Arrows Synchro Break (Image: Aviation Media Agency)

Fatigue contributed to Red Arrows fatal crash

11/10/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

An inquiry has found that fatigue and reduced situational awareness contributed to the crash of a Red Arrows BAe Hawk at RAF Valley last year in which an engineer was killed. The Special Inquiry Panel found that Flight Lieutenant David Stark, who survived the accident, had a daily routine that [read more]

A Boeing B-52H lands at RAF Fairford (Image: TransportMedia UK.)

US Bombers bound for RAF Fairford

10/10/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Another flight of the US Air Force’s B52 Heavy Bombers is currently en route to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire according to Global Strike Command. The first aircraft from the Bomber Taskforce mission will arrive from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana later this evening and are understood to be B52-H’s [read more]

Disgraced Paralympian James Brown used his disability to gain early boarding to the BA Cityflyer flight

Activists attempt to disrupt London City Airport

10/10/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Activists from the protest group “Extention Rebellion” have attempted to disrupt and attack London City Airport this afternoon creating fear and disruption amongst passengers. Disgraced former Paralympian James Brown, who was banned for two years for doping violations, purchased a ticket for a flight and after using his disability to [read more]

Airbus A220-300 in Air Baltic livery (Image: UK Aviation Media)

AirBaltic to start flights from Manchester next Spring

09/10/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

AirBaltic, Latvia’s flag carrier, is to begin direct flights between the Latvian capital Riga and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from March 2020. The route will operate four times per week and will be flown using one of AirBaltic’s state of the art Airbus A220-300 aircraft. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of [read more]

Loganair signs agreement with United for USA connections

09/10/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Scottish regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has announced that its signed an interline agreement with leading American carrier, United Airlines (UA/UAL). An interline agreement is a commercial agreement between the two airlines and means that it can sell tickets and handle passengers that require multiple flights on multiple airlines, in this [read more]