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British Airways (BA/BAW) has said it will not be returning to Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) or Birmingham Airport (BHS/EGBB) in 2019 as the routes are “commercially unviable”. The airline, using its subsidiary Cityflyer, operated five flights per week from the regional airport in a bid to boost weekend capacity for its [read more]
On the 4th October 1958 the first ever jet powered airliner to fly across the Atlantic took off from London bound for New York. The BOAC Comet 4 aircraft did the flight in 7 hours shaving 11 hours off the previous crossing time. More importantly for British Airways, then known [read more]
Budget long haul airline Norwegian.com has announced it is launching domestic flights in Argentina allowing passengers travelling from London Gatwick to Buenos Aires to connect to six destinations across the South American country. A fleet of Norwegian Boeing 737-800 aircraft will operate flights from Buenos Aires to Córdoba & Mendoza from [read more]
Primera Air, the Danish based low-cost carrier that operated from Birmingham and London Stansted, ceased trading yesterday leaving thousands of passengers either stranded abroad or having to cancel travel plans and its collapse comes as a warning to all flight only passengers, there is likely to be no rescue. Primera [read more]
Low cost airline Primera Air has ceased operations after it failed to secure the financing to continue trading. The email tells staff that Primera Air Nordic and Primera Air Scandinavia will file for bankruptcy and the airline ceased operations at midnight leaving thousands of passengers stranded across Europe and on [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is extending its lease on an Air Belgium A340 as it continues to cover the London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) service. The A340-300, a type British Airways has never operated, is providing cover for the Boeing 787’s that normally operate the route as they are [read more]
The daily Qatar Airways service from Doha (DOH/OTHH) to Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is on target for a 65% load factor in its first year of operation. The news comes as figures are released for its first 4 full months of operation and they show that the route has grown each [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is launching six new routes from Manchester Airport in 2019 bringing the total number of routes served from the airport to 63. Ryanair will launch routes from Manchester to Bordeaux, Gothenburg, Marrakech, Marseille, Nantes & Thessaloniki will launch for the Summer 2019 [read more]
Flybe is ending a number of routes at London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) as low-fares rivals Easyjet & Ryanair increase their presence at the Essex airport. Routes been terminated include Budapest, Glasgow, Manchester, Milan, Prague and Vienna and they will end at the end of October. Flybe is currently undergoing restructuring [read more]
A recent court case has ended with a judge calling airport drop-off charges at Manchester Airport an “absolute disgrace” as he passed sentence. Judge Bernard Lever made the comment as he passed sentence on Graham Benbow (55) after he lost his temper when confronted on with the parking charge and [read more]
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