Travel

Leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it is canceling its Isle of Man to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) service from 11th August after the Isle of Man Government failed to agree on essential financial support for the route beyond July. The airline had stepped in following the collapse of Flybe [read more]

An inquiry has been launched by the Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) to explore the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on Scottish airports. The committee, which is chaired by SNP MP Pete Wishart, will look into the impact that covid-19 had on communities using airports in Scotland, many of which are [read more]

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]