Travel news and insight from around the UK and the wider world.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/BBC) is aiming to restore its 2nd weekly flight from Dhaka to London Heathrow via Sylhet. The airline is currently only operating one weekly flight after capacity was cut during the recent pandemic. This means that from 25th October the flight will now operate on Wednesdays and [read more]
US low-cost airline Jetblue (B6/JBU) is to launch flights to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) in 2021 according to multiple sources close to airline. The airline is launching two transatlantic flights from Boston (BOS/KBOS) and New York JFK (JFK/KJFK). The new routes will be the first flights to Europe for the airline [read more]
Denmark, Slovakia & Iceland have all been removed from the UK’s safe travel corridor list along with the Dutch-Caribbean island of Curacao. The changes mean that anyone arriving to the UK via an English airport from these countries after 4 am on 26th September will have to self-isolate for 14-days. [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) and Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) have both announced flights from Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) today. The two regional airlines will both compete on the route in Summer 2021 however Eastern Airways will operate a year round sound from 23rd October 2020. Eastern Airways says that its year-round service [read more]
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled the latest government support to keep people in jobs as the Coronavirus pandemic rises again in the UK. The current Job Retention Scheme, or furlough, scheme has paid up to 80% of wages in order for companies to retain staff at times when they [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has launched its first-ever Buy One Get One Free offer meaning you can take a friend for free this autumn. The offer is available on 1,600 routes across Ryanair’s network and valid for travel from 25th Septermber to 14th December 2020. But this offer is [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has extended its exemption for Flight Change Fees for passengers who booked flights in October and November allowing them to alter their bookings free of charge. The move is designed to give passengers greater confidence in booking with the airline by allowing them to freely [read more]
Ryanair has announced that it is cutting its October capacity by a further 20% blaming damage caused to forward bookings caused by travel restrictions imposed by EU Governments, in particular the Irish Government. The Irish low-cost carrier that continuous changes in EU Government travel restrictions and policies as a result [read more]
Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) has confirmed its first two flights of the Summer 2021 season. Balkan Holidays will return with twice-weekly flights operating on a Thursday and Saturday giving holidaymakers extra flexibility with 7, 10, 11 or 14 day holidays to Bulgaria. Chris Rand, Sales and Marketing Manager, Balkan Holidays said: [read more]
Thomas Cook has officially relaunched as an online only travel agent operated by Chinese travel giant Fosun. We revealed last week that plans were at an advanced stage to relaunch the brand which Fosun bought the rights for £11m when the travel company collapsed last year. There will be no [read more]
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