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Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has recently reported its Summer passenger numbers which show that the airport not only achieved the busiest single day in its history but over the summer 19.9 million people used the airport. During August, over 100,000 passengers a day used the airport and the summer peaked on [read more]
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced a number of route and service upgrades for 2020 including two new international routes from Scotland. Both new routes are from Edinburgh Airport (EDI/EGPH) and are a five-times-weekly service to Hanover, Germany and a three-times-weekly service to Esbjerg, Denmark. Other service upgrades include the [read more]
Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) has announced that it has selected Airbus aircraft to form the backbone of its Project Sunrise project to operate regular non-stop flights from Australia to London and New York. The airline has selected Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft which is great news for the United Kingdom as not [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is launching a brand new route from Liverpool Airport (LPL/EGGP) to Zadar (ZAD/LDZD), Croatia. The route will be part of Ryanair’s Summer 2020 schedule from the airport and will operate twice-weekly from May. Ryanair’s Eimear Ryan said: “Ryanair is pleased to launch a new Liverpool route [read more]
London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGL) has reported its busiest November ever as it prepares for the big Christmas getaway. The airport saw 6.2 million passengers in November helped in part by travellers heading home to the United States of America for thanksgiving. Traffic to the US from Heathrow grew by over [read more]
Ongoing industrial action in France is causing severe delays to flights to France and across its airspace according to Eurocontrol. Western and Southern France seems to be the worst affected areas with Bordeaux Airspace expecting an average delay of around 1hr 10 mins and around 40 mins for aircraft transiting [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has told its investors that further delays to the Boeing 737 Max has caused it to make schedule changes for Summer 2020. The airline had been expecting 20 of the type delivered in 2020 but now only expects 10. The Boeing 737 Max is currently [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced that it will close it’s base at Norwich Airport (NWI/EGSH) placing 44 jobs at risk. The airline has formally begun a consultation process with the Pilots and Cabin Crew as well as Engineers who are based at the airport about potential redundancies. In a statement, Loganair’s [read more]
To mark the last day of Cyber Week, Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is offering £20 off return flights across its European network. The offer is valid for Ryanair flights from now until the end of February 2020. Ryanair’s Alejandra Ruiz said: “It’s the last day of our massive 10 day ‘Cyber [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) is expecting a bumper Christmas period as families jet off for the holidays or home to be with family. The airport is expecting 1.2m passengers to pass through its terminals between December 19th and January 5th making it one off the busiest in the 81-year history of [read more]
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