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Just days after announcing it would replace the FlyBMI service from Aberdeen to the Danish city of Esbjerg Loganair (LM/LOG) now faces competition on the route from Danish Air Transport (DX/DTR). The Danish airline has announced it will operate a direct service from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ/EGPD) to Esbjerg (EBJ/EKEB) using [read more]

Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) will take over the the Public Service Obligation (PSO) route from Derry in Northern Ireland to London following the collapse of FlyBMI. The airline will begin operating the route from Derry (LDY/EGAE) to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from the 27th February under the revised Derry City and [read more]

Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is to create a new base in Toulouse, France. The two-aircraft base will open in October 2019 and will serve 20 routes including 11 new ones including: Alicante (2 per week) Brest (3) Budapest (2) Lille (daily) Luxembourg (3) Marseille (Daily service) Oujda [read more]

Aer Lingus has said it will end flights between the Irish city of Cork and Southampton Airport (SOU/EGHI) later this year. The flights, operated by Stobart Air, operates up to five times per week depending on the time of year, will stop on the 20th May 2019. The airport said [read more]

Scottish Airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has said it is taking over three key routes from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ/EGPD) that were run by FlyBMI which collapsed yesterday. Lognair will take over the routes to Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD), Oslo (OSL/ENGM) and Ebsjerg (EBJ/EKEB). FlyBMI, also known as BMI Regional, entered administration yesterday and [read more]

FlyBMI (BMI Regional) (BM/BMR) has ceased all operations as the airline has entered administration tonight. The airline has been struggling financially for some time and could not secure a cash injection to keep it afloat today. All flights have been cancelled by the airline and many of its aircraft have [read more]

Argyle and Bute Council has announced that it has failed to secure a new operator for an island hopping air service which ends on the 15th May. Hebridean Air Services currently operate the routes linking Oban to Coll, Colonsay and Tiree under a Public Service Obligation (PSO) contract with the [read more]

Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has won a court of appeal ruling that means it can communicate directly with customers bypassing what it describes as ‘claims chasers’. Ryanair policy is that it will always communicate and directly pay any EU261 compensation directly to the claimant rather than to a company acting [read more]