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Operations at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) are returning to normal this morning after a day disruption as the country was hit by snow. With Wales seeing up to 20cm of snow on Sunday, Cardiff Airport suffered cancellations and delays as well as handling diversions from other airports including London Heathrow as [read more]

Icelandair is ending its Reykjavik to Birmingham service in January 2018. The main airline of Iceland had previously announced it would switch the twice-weekly service from a Boeing 757 to one of their new Boeing 737 Max aircraft but have since decided to withdraw the service completely. Icelandair has seen significant growth [read more]

The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has confirmed it has sent a team to a fatal light aircraft crash near St Albans in Hertfordshire. According to Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue, Emergency services were called to reports of a light aircraft that crashed into a field shortly after taking off. Two fire engines and [read more]

Danish low-fares carrier Primera Air has increased its Boeing 737 Max9 order to 10 further enhance the carrier’s growth potential with possibilities of adding, even more, new routes to its already extensive network. Primera Air will be the first airline to operate the Boeing 737 Max9 with Extended Range. Andri [read more]

Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) (MT/TCX) is planning to launch a service from Manchester to Marrakech starting in winter 2018. The UK holiday airline will operate the service twice-weekly using one of the airlines A321 aircraft. Marrakech is the 4th largest city in Morocco and is home one of the best Medinas [read more]

Qatar has converted a tentative order for A320neo’s into a firm order for 50 Airbus A321neo aircraft for state airline Qatar Airways. The Airline, which starts flights from Cardiff Airport to Doha on 1st May 2018, chose to upgrade to the largest of the A32X family to give it maximum [read more]

Air New Zealand is the latest airline that has been forced to cancel flights due to what it described as “engine events” in their Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powered Dreamliners have been involved in a raft of recent engine issues which started with issues reported [read more]

Bournemouth Airport (BOH/EGHH) has been acquired by the Rigby Group for an undisclosed sum. Rigby Group is a conglomerate of companies operating in multiple sectors including its growing aviation arm, Regional & City Airports. Regional & City Airports will now operate Bournemouth Airport alongside other RCA airports, Coventry, Exeter and [read more]