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Norwegian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) returned to Manchester Airport as it restarted flights between the northern gateway and Oslo. The airline is the latest to use Manchester revamped Terminal two “super-terminal” and joins the likes of Air France, Jet2 and Cathay Pacific. Norwegian will operate the route between [read more]

Spanish based IAG airline Vueling (VY/VLG) has unveiled a raft of new routes from Paris Orly (ORY/LFPO) including six routes to the UK. From early November, Vueling will operate from Paris Orly to Birmingham (BHX/EGBB), Belfast (BFS/EGAA), Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH), Glasgow (GLA/EGPF) and Newcastle (NCL/EGNT). For some airports, such [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is the best British airline according to the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2021 beating Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) to the top UK spot. The Heathrow based airline came 2nd overall in the European region, the highest placed British airline with rival Virgin coming it 8th. Top spot in [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is abandoning its plans to operate a short-haul subsidiary from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) after failing to reach an agreement with Unions. The airline had planned to operate short-haul flights alongside its long-haul operation but no agreement could be reached with the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA). A [read more]

Leading UK regional airline, Loganair (LM/LOG) has said it is bringing forward plans to increase capacity on key routes from the Isle of Man by utilising larger aircraft. Currently, routes from the Isle of Man to Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are operated using a 48 seat ATR42 turboprop but from [read more]

The US Government has finally said it will be relaxing travel rules for fully vaccinated passengers from the United Kingdom and EU countries from November. Under the new rules, which replace a miss-match of different restrictions introduced by ousted President Donald Trump, passengers who have had both jabs will be [read more]

London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has returned its summer figures which show passenger numbers were down 66% compared to pre-pandemic levels. July and August saw just 1.2m passengers pass through the terminals at London Luton compared to 3.6m in the same period of 2019. The airport says that despite the success [read more]

BA Cityflyer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Airways, has confirmed it will be relaunching flights from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from this autumn. The London City Airport-based airline will operate a twice-daily service to Belfast City using an Embraer regional jet. Announcing the return Tom Stoddart, the managing director of BA [read more]