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Norwegian Boeing 787 Jane Austen (Image: Atle Straume)

Norwegian is most fuel efficient transatlantic airline

12/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Low-cost, long-haul specialist Norwegian.com has been unveiled as the most fuel efficient transatlantic airline, for the second year in a row. The white paper that was released today by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) analysed the fuel efficiency of the 20 leading airlines on routes between Europe and [read more]

Ryanair Boeing 737 Max200 (Image: Ryanair)

Exeter gets three Ryanair Routes

11/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Ryanair has announced it is to start flights from Exeter Airport for Summer 2019. The Irish budget airline will launch flights to Malta, Malaga and Naples from April next year. Exeter Airports Managing Director Matt Roach said it was a “significant vote of confidence in the continued growth of Exeter [read more]

Ryanair to launch twice weekly Cardiff to Malta flight

11/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Ryanair has put a twice weekly service to Malta from Cardiff Airport on sale on its website. The flights, which begin in April 2019, are designed to work with Ryanairs new partnership with Air Malta which offers onward flights from Luqa Airport with the Maltese airline. The route is the [read more]

Norwegian to drop Singapore flight from Gatwick

10/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Roger Davis

Low-cost carrier Norwegian.com is ending its long haul service from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to Singapore (SIN/WSSS). The flight currently operates 4 times-per-week but will end on 10th January 2019, the last return flight will operate on the 11th January 2019. The Singapore service has fallen victim to dwindling passenger numbers [read more]

Easyjet A320 neo at Bristol Airport (Image: UK Aviation Media)

Bristol Airport celebrates busiest month ever

10/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Summer at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has been a busy one and thanks to nearly a million passengers, August was the busiest month in the history of the airport. The main summer holiday month saw 951,973 passengers pass through its terminal bringing the summer total to 1.8 million passenger, nearly 7% [read more]

Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B (Image: Michel Gilliand/GFDL/Wikimedia)

42 Years ago today: British Airways flight in mid-air collision

10/09/2018 3 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Today is the anniversary of a mid-air collision over Yugoslavia, a crash that is one of the worst air disasters to involve a British airline, and the 3rd deadliest mid-air collision in history. It is also the only fatal accident in the history of British Airways. On the 10th September [read more]

Airbus looks to add flying technology to its ships

09/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

European aerospace company Airbus has said it is planning to add its aeronautical expertise to an innovation that could revolutionize maritime transport. The SeaWing is a fully automated para-foil kite which is deployed from the front of the ship in order to “tow” the vessel through the water providing an [read more]

Horse trainer escapes injury in Haydock plane crash

08/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Horse trainer Richard Hannon was lucky to escape injury when the aircraft he was flying in crashed on landing at Haydock race course. The chartered Piper Cherokee Six skidded out of control after landing on a wet grass air strip and collided with an empty helicopter. As well as Richard [read more]

Ryanair withdraws redundancy threat after strike resolution

08/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said it is withdrawing its threat to make 300 pilots and cabin crew in Dublin redundant after it reached a resolution with the Irish Airline Pilots Associtation. The airline said it would transfer 6 Dublin based 737’s to its new polish based airline Ryanair [read more]

Openskies 767 F-HILU turns off the runway at MOD St Athan (Image: Ian Grinter/SWAG)

Openskies 767 has last flight to South Wales

08/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Transatlantic specialist Openskies (LV/BOS) ceased operations at the beginning of September 2018 and just days later, its last Boeing 767 took its final flight, to St Athan in South Wales. Openskies, sometimes called BA Openskies was set up in 2008 by International Airlines Group in an effort to reduce British [read more]