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French Authorities seized a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 at Bordeaux Airport (BOD/LFBD) earlier today in a row over money. Ryanair is said to owe nearly £427,000 after the subsidies it received from Angouleme regional airport between 2008 and 2009 were deemed illegal by the European Commission. The aircraft was due to operate [read more]

If you are travelling with Ryanair (FR/RYR) on Wednesday evening through to Thursday morning then make sure you check-in online by 5pm on Wednesday otherwise you may face a£55 charge at the airport. The Irish budget airline is taking its website offline from 17:00hrs (GMT) on Wednesday 7th November until [read more]

Thomas Cook Airlines (MT/TCX) together with the rest of the Thomas Cook Group is making a plastics pledge to remove single use plastic items from its operation. Under its #NoPlaceForPlastic campaign, the next 12 months will see the group aims to remove large volume items such as stirrers and straws [read more]

Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has launched its new service from Glasgow Airport (GLA/EGPF)  to Derry (LDY/EGAE), Northern Ireland. The route marked the first time Loganair has flown to Derry in 10 years as it took over from Irish budget airline, Ryanair who ended the link last week. The route will [read more]

Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has reported 3rd quarter profits of 1.3bn NOK (£121m GBP), an 18% increase on the same period last year. As the company has been able to reduce its operating unit cost by 10% it was able to post Earnings Before Tax (EBT) result was a [read more]

Norwegian, the Scandinavia & UK based low-cost airline,  is intruding technology to its flights that will save up to 5,000 tons of fuel over a year. The new weather service called Aventus Air™ has already been trialled by the airline and saw fuel consumption reduced by 22 kilos per flight according [read more]

Holiday airline Jet2 (LS/EXS) has announced it is adding a new service to Budapest (BUD/LHBP) from Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) from November 2019. The twice-weekly route will be served by one of the airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft and will operate on a Monday and Friday starting on the 8th November 2019. Budapest [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced its latest transatlantic destination for Summer 2019 as Charleston, South Caroilna. The airline with fly from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Charleston twice-weekly from April 4, 2019 using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Voted the best small city in the US for 8 years running, Charleston was [read more]