Travel

Loganair (LM/LOG) now has a service between Scotlands two biggest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The 30min flight (including taxi time) will set you back around £94 but could see people avoiding having to drive on the M8 and then not having to worry about parking in either city. Travel from [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is restarting a route between London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The flight will operate daily from 28th March 2021 and shows that British Airways does still aim to operate flights from Gatwick and to maintain its valuable slots. British Airways services at London Gatwick all [read more]

Workers employed by Heathrow Airport are carrying out strike action over 3 days this week in a protest about proposed pay cuts. Staff that are members of the Unite Union are ramping up strike action with action today, and also on Thursday 17th December and Friday 18th December. Todays action [read more]

Turkish-German airline Sun Express (XQ/SXS) is set to launch a direct flight from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Antalya in Turkey in 2021. The service will begin on the 26th March 2021 and will initially operate twice-weekly before increasing to four-flights-per-week from 30th May 2021. “After a year of staying at [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has been banned from flying passengers into Hong Kong until 25th December after a flight landed in Hong Kong on 8th December with four passengers who tested positive for COVID-19. In addition to the four COVID-19 positive passengers, one passenger also failed to comply with prevention requirements. [read more]

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has cancelled its plans to start flights from Manchester to India, the first of which was due next week according to sources close to the situation. The airline had announced flights to Mumbai and Delhi which were due to start on in January 2021. The news comes [read more]

The Canary Islands have been removed from the UK’s list of safe travel corridors meaning that anyone returning from the Islands after 04:00am o Saturday (12th December) will to quarantine for two weeks. The move will come as a blow to UK holiday companies including Tui and Jet2 as the [read more]

The new Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) route from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Islamabad, Pakistan has got underway today with the first departure earlier today. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and is a popular destination for the Pakistani diaspora living in the North of England as well for tourists to the [read more]