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UK Leisure airline Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has increased capacity on flights to Turkey from Cardiff Airport. The increase comes partly from the return of Antalya as a destination from the Wales’ national airport as well as a 2nd weekly Dalaman rotation. Thanks to low prices Turkey was the third most [read more]

Flights to Hurghada, Egypt are set to return to Cardiff Airport nearly 3 years after they were cancelled over terrorism fears. UK holiday airline TUI (formerly Thomson) is bringing the destination back into their Winter 2018/19 programme. TUI operates a 2 aircraft base in the summer, and a 1 aircraft [read more]

For the second time in less than 6 months, Air Canada pilots have been involved in an incident while landing at San Francisco. The second incident occurred on Sunday night when Air Canada flight AC781 from Montreal was ordered to abort its landing six times by Air Traffic Control (ATC). [read more]

On Sunday afternoon a TUI flight bound for Cancun was forced to divert to Quebec in Canada after a drunk passenger began attacking passengers and crew after becoming drunk onboard the flight. TUI flight 182 was flying from Manchester to Cancun when Bridget Hanley, a 34-year-old British woman, became drunk [read more]

Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has ordered 11 new airbridges from Spanish engineering firm ADELTE. The new boarding bridges which are expected to be installed late 2018 and early 2019 form part of the first phase of the Manchester Airport Transformation Programme (MAN-TP). The new airbridges will be Apron Drive models with [read more]

The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford is widely regarded as the highlight of the airshow season in the UK and 2018 promises to be even more spectacular as the show celebrates the centenary of the Royal Air Force. The RAF100 theme will mark 100 years since the formation [read more]

Seattle-based Airframer Boeing is reportedly close securing a “huge order” for up to 100 passenger 767’s. The news was reported in the Puget Sound Business Journal which cited a Boeing document and three industry sources who remained anonymous to protect business relationships. The order believed to be from United (UA/UAL) would see Boeing [read more]

It’s emerged in the last few weeks that Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa has been in talks with Alitalia and the Italian Government to acquire some of the failing airline’s assets. In particular, Lufthansa wants to buy the Italian airlines Aircraft, Runway slots and their route network. The German carrier has said [read more]