Travel

The UK Government is dropping the need for pre-departure Coronavirus PCR tests for double-vaccinated passengers arriving into England from Friday. Passengers will still need to take a Day 2 PCR Test after arriving but fully vaccinated passengers will no longer need to self-isolate whilst waiting for the results however from [read more]

According to the latest Which? airline customer satisfaction survey Ryanair is the worst UK short-haul airline with less than half of its passengers satisfied with the way the airline deals with refunds. The Irish budget airline achieved a customer score of just 60% in the survey but its refund satisfaction [read more]

The Coronavirus pandemic has wiped out almost 15 years of growth in the airline industry according to data from the latest Cirium Airline Insights Report. Passenger traffic across Europe was down almost 66% between January to September 2021 compared to the same period in 2019. The Middle East and Asia-Pacific [read more]

Wizz Air is set to continue its aggressive expansion at London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) after it announced it had agreed to buy 15 slot pairs at the airport from Norwegian Air Shuttle. The additional slot pairs mean that Wizz will base an additional four Airbus A321 aircraft there for Summer 2022 [read more]

Dublin headquartered Emerald Airlines (EA/EAI) is set to commence services for Aer Lingus Regional 10 months ahead of schedule. The newest Irish airline will operate routes under a franchise agreement using leased ATR72-600 aircraft and takes over many of the routes left unserved when Stobart Air shutdown. Emerald says it [read more]

Budget airline easyJet (U2/EZY) and Virgin Atlantic have signed a deal through Worldwide by easyJet to interline passengers at Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast airports. The deal means that passengers will be able to connect from domestic or European easyJet flights to seamlessly connect to long-haul flights bound for the US [read more]

Ryanair has come under fire for making light of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has killed 146,000 people in the UK, when their social media team posted an infographic comparing the actual coronavirus levels to rumours about Downing Street parties. The Ryanair social media team compared the current alert level 4, [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced that it launching a new route from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to Knock (NOC/EIKN) next year. The twice-weekly service will launch on 22nd March 2022 and run until at least October 2022. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: “We are pleased to add [read more]