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British Airways (BA/BAW) lined up all four of its specially painted retro jets at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) yesterday to celebrate a milestone for the heritage fleet. The occasion marked the 50,000th customer to fly on one of the four heritage aircraft which were introduced into the fleet over the course [read more]

Jet2 (LS/EXS) has been rated the best UK airline by leading review site, Tripadvisor. The Leeds-Bradford based airline has a score of 4.5 out of 5 from 20,428 reviews with reviewers rating the airline highly for value for money and check in processes. Jet2 operates scheduled and charter flights to [read more]

Boeing CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg‏, has released a video statement saying he was “sorry for the deaths” following two fatal Boeing 737 Max accidents that have been linked to Boeing’s MCAS system. The statement came after the preliminary report into the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 in March which [read more]

Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is celebrating 40 years of flying between Glasgow (GLA/EGPF), Scotland and Derry (LDY/EGAE), Northern Ireland. April 1979 saw the airline fly its first flight between the two airports using a de-Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter with 19 seats and to celebrate the milestone, the airline recreated [read more]

Flybe is to close its ejet bases at Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Doncaster (DSA/EGCN) Airports and end ejet flights from Exeter (EXT/EGTE) and Norwich Airports (NWI/EGSH) at the end of Summer 2019. In documents seen by us, the airline has told its pilots that the decision follows a “critical review of the [read more]

Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) has been named as the Worlds Best Airport Terminals by airline and airport review and ranking site, SkyTrax. Heathrow beat off competition from airports around the world to win the award, which is voted for by international travellers. Heathrow also won awards for [read more]

A new dating app has been launched specifically with a view to finding love in the air, quite literally! Launched today, Flying Hearts is designed to allow you to connect with the persons whose eyes you meet across the headrests, as long as they want too of course. The interface [read more]

Air crash investigators probing the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 have concluded that Boeing’s MCAS system was active in the moments before it crashed killing 157 people according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a system that Boeing added to [read more]