Travel

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced two new routes from the UK for Summer 2022. The first new route is from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Abruzzo (PSR/LIBP). The airport serves Pescara and the surrounding areas on the east coast of Italy. The second new route is from East Midlands [read more]

The UK’s largest regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has confirmed that it will be reconnecting the Isle of Man with key London airports. An initial daily service (except Saturdays) to London City will launch on 19th April but this will increase to twice-daily from 3rd May. The daily service to London [read more]

The reborn regional airline Flybe has taken another step closer to launch as its starts to recruit cabin crew and managers at its Birmingham and Belfast hubs. Flybe has always targeted an early 2022 launch but the closing date for job applications make it unlikely to be before the end [read more]

TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) has announced it is increasing capacity to seven destinations from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) as well as basing an additional Boeing 737 there. The increase will see greater availability of the popular 10/11 night breaks to Greece, Palma, Cyprus, and Turkey for customers seeking longer than a [read more]

Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has announced that 24 popular routes are set to restart this March and April from the South West’s main airport, from four of its most popular airlines. easyJet Bristol’s biggest carrier easyJet (U2/EZY) is bringing back the most routes with the return of destinations including Antalya, Athens, [read more]

UK regional airline Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has announced it will be resuming flights from Wick John O’Groats Airport (WIC/EGPC) to Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) from April. Eastern will operate the route, which last operated in 2020, in association with The Highland Council and Transport Scotland. The service will operate (up to) twice-daily [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has cancelled all of its short-haul flights in and out of London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) this morning due to ‘technical issues’. The move has left thousands of passengers delayed and without flights, with some passengers stuck on aircraft hour hours after arriving at Heathrow. A hardware fault is [read more]

Russia has banned UK airlines from its entire airspace, including overflights, in apparent retaliation for sanctions imposed by the UK on Aeroflot following Russia’s unprovoked attack and invasion of Ukraine. British Airways said it was cancelling all flights to Russia as a result of the ban and adjusting flights to [read more]