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Well according to the operators Swansea Airport Ltd, yes! From the end of March 2023 an as-yet-unnamed airline is set to launch flights between Exeter and Swansea. The last commercial airline to use Swansea Airport was Air Wales which ceased its operations there in 2004 to focus on Cardiff Airport. [read more]

Low-cost carrier Easyjet (U2/EZY) is set to relaunch its popular route from Southend (SEN/EGMC) to Amsterdam starting from 24th May 2023. The service will operate four times per week and will be the fourth destination that the carrier operates from the airport following its return. In addition to the Amsterdam [read more]

Global air traffic is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by June of this year, around a year ahead of original predictions, according to airliner leasing specialist Avolon. The Dublin, Ireland-based operation says the sector is set to thrive in 2023 after 2022 saw a 70% recovery of air travel [read more]

The outage of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) NOTAMs system which caused thousands of flights to be delayed or cancelled last week was reportedly caused by an engineer swapping one file. The FAA said that the results of the preliminary analysis of the outage showed “that a data file was [read more]

A video posted on social media appears to show the final moments of a Yeti Airlines flight which crashed near Pokhara, Nepal. The flight was operating from Kathmandu and of the 72 people on board the aircraft, at least 68 have been confirmed dead. The aircraft involved was a 15-year-old [read more]

Airbus UpNext has begun testing next-level pilot assistant technology on an Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. The wholly-owned Airbus subsidiary is testing a system known as Dragonfly which includes the ability to autonomously divert the aircraft in flight with automatic landing and taxi ability. Airbus says that the technologies were able to [read more]

US aerospace giant Boeing has released the figures for its commercial aircraft orders and deliveries in 2022 showing a positive recovery for the singe-aisle 737 Max product line. In total the company received orders for 561 Boeing 737 Max family aircraft including several new customers including ANA, Delta Air Lines, [read more]

Flights are now resuming after a computer outage with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) caused a nationwide grounding of flights from US airports. American Airlines and United both confirmed to passengers waiting for flights that there was a nationwide system outage and as a result, they have delayed departures. American [read more]