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Low-fares airline Flybe helped a group of Irish cataract patients keep their appointment for surgery in Wales on Sunday after the flight was initially cancelled. The group were travelling to a hospital in Newport for vital cataract operations but their flight from Ireland to Cardiff was cancelled due to fog at [read more]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has limited the ETOPS capability of Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners. An airworthiness directive, which will be published today, will say that the fleet of 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft that are powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Package C engines will be limited to 140min ETOPS. [read more]

Maltese flag carrier, Air Malta is expanded its operations in the UK by adding three new routes to London Southend airport (SEN/EGMC). From 4th May 2018, it will offer a direct service to Malta as well as flights to Cagliari and Catania in Italy. Both Italian routes offer onward connections to Malta. [read more]

Low-Cost carrier Easyjet has celebrated 15 years of operations at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT). Passengers were met with celebrations that included cake at check-in whilst crews were treated to party food in the crew room. Passengers on board one Easyjet flight also had the opportunity to win prizes as part of the [read more]

Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air International has cut some UK to US transatlantic routes to summer only from October 2018. Services from Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) to Providence (PVD/KPVD) and Belfast International (BFS/EGAA) to Newburgh Stewart (SWF/KSWF) will no longer be operated between the end of October 2018 and March 2019. Norwegian Air [read more]

The Fenestron is now a familiar sight on helicopters produced by companies like Aérospatiale, sud-aviation and later Airbus but before 1968 the safety-improving device didn’t exist, We look back at 50 years since the invention of the Fenestron. Invented by Paul Fabre and René Mouille the shrouded tail rotor was initially developed [read more]

Long haul charter specialist Hi Fly has announced that two brand new Airbus A330-200 aircraft will join the fleet this summer. The aircraft are currently in final assembly at Airbus facility in Toulouse and will be delivered to the airline in June and July. Hi Fly says that both aircraft will [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has ended 2017/18 financial year with 10% growth according to figures released by the airport. The rolling 12 month total (a comparison to the previous 12 month period) 2017/18 saw 1.48 million passengers had used Wales’ national airport, bolstered by the UEFA Champions League final in June [read more]