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Figures released by the UK’s busiest airport, London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) show that it has lost £2.9bn since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The airport said that the first half if 2021 saw less than 4 million passengers passed through its terminals, something which would have been achieved in [read more]
easyJet (U2/EZE) is prepared for the begging of the 2021 summer holidays with schools in England breaking up this week and joining their Welsh & Scottish counterparts. The airline says that it expects to carry around 135,000 this weekend which is an almost 100% increase in 2020 but still far [read more]
A group led by Manchester Airports Group, Ryanair, easyJet, TUI UK and Virgin Atlantic are left considering their options after failing to win a judicial review of the UK Governments coronavirus traffic light travel system. Acknowledging that the group did have grounds for a judicial review but the judges of [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has outlined its planned recovery schedule for Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) airports. As air travel begins to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of restrictions in England the airline hopes to be able to deliver a significant increase in its operations. Manchester Airport will see [read more]
Five more airlines are set to move to Manchester Airport’s (MAN/EGCC) newly revamped Terminal 2 from next week. TUI and Jet2 are already using the facility but on Saturday they wer joined by Singapore Airlines. Tuesday will see Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways and Brussels airlines will start flying from Terminal [read more]
US president Joe Biden has hinted that the US could start to re-open international air travel for countries that have made good progress in their vaccination programmes “within days”. Speaking in Germany, the President made the comments after official studies from the US Department of Defense, and Harvard University concluded [read more]
Industrial action by Air Traffic Controllers at Highland and Island Airports (HIAL) will mean that leading regional airliner Loganair (LM/LOG) will not be able to operate flights to some of its airports. The strike on 29th July will affect flights to Inverness, Sumburgh, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Benbecula and Dundee. Loganair will [read more]
Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca are being added back to the UK’s amber coronavirus travel list just two weeks after they were given the green light for holidays. The popular Spanish Balearic Islands were given the green light on the 24th June but the UK government announced today that from Monday, [read more]
The first passengers to use Manchester Airports (MAN/EGCC) Terminal 2 extension will pass through the facility today. Jet2 and TUI are the first airlines to use the new flagship facility which is part of the airports £1bn expansion programme. The T2 expansion was due to open in Summer 2020 but [read more]
Monday (12th July) saw Loganair (LM/LOG) commence its new service connecting Norwich Airport (NWI/EGSH) with the South West of England’s Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE). The new service will operate up to four times per week during the summer on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays offering opportunities for both business and leisure [read more]
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