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Norwegian Air Shuttle has had the imminent financial pressure lifted by its bondholders agreeing to an extension on maturity. The trustees held separate bondholders’ meetings for NAS07 and NAS08 unsecured bonds and reported that at both meetings the vote went in favour for the proposed amendments. The amendments mean that [read more]
Thomas Cook will seek a delay to a key bondholders’ meeting on Wednesday as it tries to finalise a £1bn rescue package in a bid to prevent the UK’s oldest tour operator from collapsing. The collapse of Thomas Cook could leave thousands of holidays makers seeking alternative arrangements or having [read more]
London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has enjoyed its busiest summer ever with 5.3 million passengers passing through the airport in August alone. The airport says that the most popular destinations included Malaga, Barcelona, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca and Tel-Aviv. Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said: “The summer period is always a [read more]
Hundreds of British Airways flights have been cancelled today as the airlines pilots start a two day walkout in a dispute over pay and conditions. The strike began at midnight local time and over 1700 flights have already been cancelled as a result and British Airways is advising passengers not [read more]
Wizz Air’s UK subsidiary, Wizz Air UK (W9/WUK), is launching daily flights to Russia from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) from October 2019. The airline will fly daily to Moscow Vnukovo (VKO/UUWW) on a daily basis with flights leaving Luton at 06:50 and returning at 15:15. In addition, Wizz Air UK [read more]
Leading UK airline Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has announced that it has entered into a codeshare agreement with Brazillian low-cost carrier, GOL (G3/GLO) to offer onward flights across Brazil. Virgin Atlantic launches direct flights from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Sao Paulo (GRU/SBGR) from March 2020 and the new deal with GOL [read more]
Loganair’s (LM/LOG) latest jet routes have got underway from Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) and East Midlands (EMA/EGNX) airports. Aberdeen’s new jet routes to Newcastle (NCL/EGNT) and Norwich (NWI/EGSH) got underway yesterday (1st September) and East Midlands new routes to Inverness and Brussels launched today. All the routes are being operated by a [read more]
Flights across Europe from the UK are being hit with delays this morning due to a computer outage with French Air Traffic Control. Airlines including Easyjet, British Airways and Ryanair have all suffered delays as a result of the problems which affected flights flying to and over France. Paris Airport, [read more]
After being dropped in 2019, Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is set to relaunch its seasonal flights from Belfast International (BFS/EGAA) to Palma de Mallorca (PMI/LEPA) in 2020. The flight to the popular Spanish island is due to restart on 6th May 2020 and will be operated by a 220-seat Airbus A321 [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is to restart flights to the Greek island of Lemnos for summer 2020. The UK charter airline last flew to the island in 2014 but from 25th May 2020 package holidays will available for the island from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) Lemnos is currently only served by British [read more]
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