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Sources have confirmed that Virgin Atlantic has entered a bid for the long-haul operations of Thomas Cook Airlines. Thomas Cook put the its airline business, Thomas Cook Airlines up for sale as pressure mounts on tour operators from weakening profits. Virgin Atlantic has expressed an interest by submitting an initial [read more]
Hundreds of flights from the UK have been cancelled as a result of yet another strike by French Air Traffic Controllers. The strike, the latest in run of disputes than seem to have been going since Louis Bleriot fist flew across the channel, have caused cancellations from most UK & [read more]
Manchester has today revealed details of its new PremiAir service which will it says will offer a private jet experience to passengers no matter who they are flying with. Announced back in January the service is expected to launch in September and be available with prices starting from just £50. [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) is launching two new jet routes from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ/EGPD) putting in direct competition with regional rival, Eastern Airways. Flights to Newcastle and Norwich commence on September 1st and the airline says it is in response to poor service on the routes currently operated by Eastern Airways. Loganair [read more]
Air Serbia (JU/ASL) has agreed to lease the former Jet Airways London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) slots from owners, Etihad. In slot trade, submitted on the 26th April 2019, Air Serbia will lease seven slots pairs from Etihad until 26th October 2019. Indian airline Jet Airways recently suspended operations and the some [read more]
British Airways is now using biometric boarding on flights from the US to the UK with over 250,000 people already having used the system following a successful introduction of the technology on UK domestic flights. Biometric data allows passengers to confirm their identity with their face, in similar way to [read more]
Rapidly expanding Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it will commence scheduled flights from East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) from September 2019. Lognair will initially launch flights to Brussels and Inverness from East Midlands. Brussels will operate morning and afternoon rotations from Monday to Thursday and a daily rotation on [read more]
US budget airline JetBlue (B6/JBU) has announced it will launch direct flights to London from New York JFK and Boston airports. The airline hasn’t disclosed details of which London Airport will be served by the new services which the airline is planning to launch in 2021. It made the announcement [read more]
Scottish regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is celebrating 40 years of flying between Glasgow (GLA/EGPF), Scotland and Derry (LDY/EGAE), Northern Ireland. April 1979 saw the airline fly its first flight between the two airports using a de-Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter with 19 seats and to celebrate the milestone, the airline recreated [read more]
Flybe is to close its ejet bases at Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Doncaster (DSA/EGCN) Airports and end ejet flights from Exeter (EXT/EGTE) and Norwich Airports (NWI/EGSH) at the end of Summer 2019. In documents seen by us, the airline has told its pilots that the decision follows a “critical review of the [read more]
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