Travel

Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has announced that 24 popular routes are set to restart this March and April from the South West’s main airport, from four of its most popular airlines. easyJet Bristol’s biggest carrier easyJet (U2/EZY) is bringing back the most routes with the return of destinations including Antalya, Athens, [read more]

UK regional airline Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has announced it will be resuming flights from Wick John O’Groats Airport (WIC/EGPC) to Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) from April. Eastern will operate the route, which last operated in 2020, in association with The Highland Council and Transport Scotland. The service will operate (up to) twice-daily [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has cancelled all of its short-haul flights in and out of London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) this morning due to ‘technical issues’. The move has left thousands of passengers delayed and without flights, with some passengers stuck on aircraft hour hours after arriving at Heathrow. A hardware fault is [read more]

Russia has banned UK airlines from its entire airspace, including overflights, in apparent retaliation for sanctions imposed by the UK on Aeroflot following Russia’s unprovoked attack and invasion of Ukraine. British Airways said it was cancelling all flights to Russia as a result of the ban and adjusting flights to [read more]

Aeroflot, the Russian state airline has been banned from flying to the UK as part of a new sanctions package announced today by the UK Government. The sanctions are in direct response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier today, something that has drawn global condemnation. Other sanctions include freezing [read more]

Flights from the UK to Ukraine have been suspended after Russia invaded the country in the early hours of this morning. Despite claiming for weeks that it had no intention of doing so, Russia has launched and air and ground invasion of Ukraine bringing worldwide condemnation. To protect civilian flights, [read more]

The UK’s leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced its most ambitious winter schedule for the Winter 2022/2023 season as it rides on the post-COVID recovery of air travel. The Glasgow based airline, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, will be continuing the new routes which are launching this summer [read more]

Manchester Airport Group (MAG) says it is expecting the February half-term to be one of the busiest periods it has had since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group says it is expecting around 1.5 million passengers to pass through Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) and London [read more]