Travel

London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has said it saw passenger numbers for November 2020 drop by 90% compared to the same period in 2019. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions has seen demand for air travel effectively fall of a cliff with people only travelling if it is essential. It [read more]

Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air is set to launch a permanent base at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGGF) creating around 40 jobs in March 2021. The airline will offer nine routes to destinations including Alicante, Faro and Tenerife as well as seasonal routes to Corfu and Palma. Sharm El Sheikh and Lanzarote [read more]

Loganair (LM/LOG) is to launch a second direct connection to the Channel Islands from Scotland for Summer 2021. The Scottish airline will begin a twice-weekly service from Edinburgh to Jersey from 22nd May 2021 using a 70-seat ATR72. Kay Ryan, Loganair’s chief commercial officer, said: “We are excited by the [read more]

Low-cost carrier EasyJet (U2/EZY) and its package holiday arm EasyJet Holidays will offer reduced-price COVID-19 tests to help its customers take advantage of the new Test and Release rules on quarantine. Passengers returning to the UK from countries not on the safe travel list currently have to quarantine for 14-days [read more]

Ryanair has launched its Cyber Monday sale by offering 10,000 seats for just £5. The offer is available on flights in December 2020 and January 2021 across 500 of the Irish low-cost airlines routes. Ryanair’s Director of Marketing, Dara Brady said: “Ryanair is here to banish the Monday blues with this [read more]

US-based low-cost airline JetBlue (B6/JBU) will start transatlantic flights from Boston and New York to London but without their desired route to Heathrow after the UK’s slot regulator Airport Coordination Ltd (ACL) denied a request for 48 slot pairs at the UK’s biggest airport. As a result, JetBlue has been [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced a 24-hour long cyber-weekend sale with £25 OFF return flights across 1,600 routes. The airline is offering the discount on flights between 1st December 2020 and 31st January 2021. The offer will allow people to jump on a flight to find some winter sun, or snow [read more]

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has clarified its requirements in clearing the Boeing 737 Max to return to European skies. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the type weeks ago but EASA carried out its own independent review of the aircraft type which was grounded in 2019 following two [read more]