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British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced that it will be moving all direct flights from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Beijing to tyhe new state-of-the-art Daxing airport (PKX/ZBAD). The move from the current airport, Beijing Capital (PEK/ZBAA) will take on all flights from 27th October 2019. British Airways is the first international [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is to be hit with a record-breaking £183.39m fine by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) following last years breach of its website. British Airways was hit by what it described as a “sophisticated” hacking attack on its website that saw visitors diverted to a fake British Airways [read more]
The Flybe brand will start to disappear form airports after the European Commission (EC) approved the takeover of its business by Connect Airways Ltd, a group led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group. Flybe turned from a profitable regional airline into an airline on the verge of collapse under the [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) is restarting the Bristol (BRS/EGGD) to Grenoble (GNB/LFLS) route for the winter season 2020. Starting on 11th January 2020 the weekly service will operate on a Saturday. Located at the foot of the French Alps, Grenoble is a popular destination for skiers and winter sports enthusiasts and as [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has revealed it has cut the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions per passenger to just 66g per kilometre (KM). In figures released by the airline for June 2019 the airline says it flew 14.2m passengers 17,789m km releasing CO2 emissions of 1,167kt making Ryanair the cleanest airline flying in [read more]
Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has been forced to cancel some flights to Kirkwall airport on Friday 5th July and change the flight times on Saturday 6th July as the airport is closing early due to unforeseen staffing problems. As a result, the airline has been forced to make changes [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) new PremiAir service has started taking bookings ahead of its launch later this year. PremiAir is designed to give passengers flying on scheduled flights that private jet experience with a private terminal containing exclusive lounges and food made fresh to order. The packages also include VIP transfer [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has seen its traffic grow in June 2019 compared to June 2018. The first full summer month saw 13.6m passengers use Ryanair compared to 12.6m in the same period last year, up 8%. The trend was continued across the Ryanair Group which overall saw traffic [read more]
From March 2020, EI380 and 381 between London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and Shannon (SNN/EINN) will be operated by Aer Lingus’ newest aircraft, the Airbus A321LR. The A321LR will be operation transatlantic services for the Irish carrier but like most airlines, when a new aircraft comes into service it is used on [read more]
TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) is adding several new winter routes from UK airports including Bristol, Birmingham, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, London Stansted and Manchester. The new routes include the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, Moroccan hotspot Agadir and the Alpine town of Chambery. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) sees a new service to Memmingen, Germany [read more]
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