Travel

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) is launching routes to Gibraltar from Birmingham and Southampton from May. The service will initially operate twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays and will be the first time the British region will have a direct flight to the south coast of the UK. Birmingham hasn’t seen a link [read more]

Airports and ground handling companies in England are set to recieve up to £8 million in Government help as the Airport Support Scheme comes online. As we reported earlier this month, the government announced the Airport Support Scheme last year and then more recently said it would be in place [read more]

France is set to close its borders to non-EU nationals in tough new border restrictions as Coronavirus cases in the country remain some of the highest in Europe. The move closes the country to all non-Europeans from Sunday unless their travel is absolutely necessary although the French prime minister Jean [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is to join its Oneworld partner American Airlines in trailing Verifly, A digital health passport app designed to allow passengers to easily verify Covid-19 test certificates before they fly. The trial is set to begin on 4th February and will initially be available only on the airline’s [read more]

Flights from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including the popular transit points of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, to the UK will be banned from tomorrow (Friday 29th January) as new countries are adding to the UK’s no-fly list. The UAE joins Burundi and Rwanda on the UK’s red list which [read more]

In a stroke of good news after months of border closures and travel bans, India is allowing UK flights into the country once more. Hardeep Singh Puri, the civil aviation minister, announced on 1 January that flights between India and the UK would resume starting 8 January. This comes shortly [read more]

The Advertising Standards Authority has told Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) that its “Jab & Go” advert must not run again in its current form. The watchdog received a large number of complaints about the campaign which told customers “vaccines are coming” and encouraged them to book flights in order [read more]

Heathrow Airport has come under fire after a picture emerged of large crowds not socially distanced inside Heathrow’s Terminal 2 sparking fears of a super-spreading. The image was posted on social media by former British Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott who captioned it “T2 Heathrow Friday afternoon. No ventilation. Long delays. [read more]