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The Intra-Wales air service started out in 2007 to provide an air route between North Wales (Anglesey VLY/EGOV) and South Wales (CWL/EGFF). One of its roles was to make it easier for Welsh Assembly Members (AM’s) to travel between the two ends of the country and allow North Wales AM’s [read more]

Rolls-Royce has said it needs to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two-years in a reorganisation of the company. The reorganisation comes as the Derby based powerplant manufacturer tries to focus more on its core business of Civil Aerospace and Defence Power systems. The majority of the cuts are expected to [read more]

Olivia Bussey has been appointed as the new Trade Marketing Manager at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) as it gears up for its busiest summer ever. Having graduated from the Univesity of Sunderland with a first class honours degree, Olivia joins the airport having previously worked as a travel consultant for TUI. Her [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has seen its 15th consecutive month of growth with a 12% rise in passengers for May 2018. Wales’ national airport had its busiest May since 2009 which now sees 18 airlines regularly fly out of it including the new Qatar Airways service to Doha which launched on the [read more]

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has confirmed it is sending a team to Scotland after a Helicopter was forced to ditch into a Loch. The Eurocopter AS350 Ecureil helicopter, operated by PDG Aviation Services, came down south of the town of Lochmaddy in the Western Isles just after 10 [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair is to launch flights from London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) from April 2019. The 13 new routes, which already show on Ryanair’s website, include: Alicante (5 weekly) Barcelona Reus (2 weekly) Bilbao (4 weekly) Brest (2 weekly) Corfu (2 weekly) Cluj (3 weekly) Dublin (2 daily) Faro [read more]

Rolls-Royce is extending checks of Trent 1000 engines beyond Package C engines after a similar fault was found with the Package B version. The fault with the Intermediate Stage Compressor was previously thought to only affect the Package C variant but finding the fault in the Package B version could potentially [read more]

Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has increased its wide-body operation at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) with additional A330 services over the summer. The UK holiday airline, which recently launched a direct service from Manchester to Seattle (SEA/KSEA) will use its wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft on 8 additional services across Europe and Turkey. Thomas [read more]