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Oslo, Norway-based low-cost carrier has ceased trading after failing to secure backing for its new financial plan leaving the board with no viable alternatives. The airline was set up in 2020 by Erik G. Braathen who previously ran Braathens before its subsequent collapse in 2004. Flyr operated flights to two [read more]

Campaigners opposed to expansion at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) have lost their appeal at the High Court effectively giving the final green light to the airport. A protest group made up of paid campaign groups such as Extinction Rebellion operating under the banner of Bristol Airport Action Network had appealed the [read more]

Everett, Washington is the undisputed home of the Boeing 747 from the “incredibles” who designed and built the first-ever Boeing 747 through the 1,573 additional 747s that were built so it was only fitting that the final one is handed over at the Everett site. Atlas Air received the last-ever [read more]

Aer Lingus (EI/EIN) is set to launch a daily service between Knock Ireland West Airport (NOC/EIKN) to London Heathrow (LGR/EGLL) this spring. The new service which begins on the 26th of March will boost links for tourism and industry in the west of Ireland enhancing the local economy and will [read more]

Deliveries of airliners in 2022 significantly exceeded predictions with over 1,000 aircraft being delivered for the first time since 2019. The UK trade organisation representing the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors, ADS, had predicted that 997 aircraft would be delivered in 2022 but the final total was 1,144 from [read more]

French airframer ATR and French Aerospace Giant Airbus, together with the French Government, the Occitanie Region, Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, and Aerospace Valley, have committed to a pledge to decarbonise the aviation sector. The commitment will see the acceleration of the development, production and use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the [read more]

Flybe (Flybe Ltd), the reincarnation of the previously collapsed regional airline, ceased trading overnight cancelling all flights leaving hundreds without flights today, passengers stranded overseas and many staff members without a job. A statement by the airline, further to that on its website, revealed that 276 employees had lost their [read more]

Regional Flybe has collapsed and ceased trading with immediate effect less than a year after the airline launched flights under the Flybe brand. In a statement on its website, it said that “Flybe has now ceased trading and all flights from and to the UK operated by Flybe have been [read more]