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Summer at Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has been a busy one and thanks to nearly a million passengers, August was the busiest month in the history of the airport. The main summer holiday month saw 951,973 passengers pass through its terminal bringing the summer total to 1.8 million passenger, nearly 7% [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said it is withdrawing its threat to make 300 pilots and cabin crew in Dublin redundant after it reached a resolution with the Irish Airline Pilots Associtation. The airline said it would transfer 6 Dublin based 737’s to its new polish based airline Ryanair [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) is investigating the theft of customer data from its website “as a matter of urgency”. The data could include personal information  and payment card details and as a result, the airline is urging customers to check with their banks. In a statement the airline said the breach [read more]

BMI Regional (BM/BMR) is facing industrial action after the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) announced it was to ballot members on strike action. The move comes as British Midland Regional Ltd, known as FlyBMI & BMI Regional, is engaged in talks over pay and conditions for its pilots. Whilst BALPA [read more]

Flights to the US from the UK have got cheaper and cheaper in recent years thanks for low-cost long-haul carriers but one of them, Norwegian.com has just made it even cheaper! The airline, which operates flights to top US destinations from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK), has just launched its biggest ever [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) claims that UK Air Traffic Provider NATS is actively discriminating against the airline, a claim which NATS has denied. The airline claims figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) proves that NATS is giving special treatment to Heathrow and Gatwick and imposing delays on [read more]

Belgian airline VLM (VO/WLM) has ceased operations with immediate effect following a decision by shareholders today. The decision to liquidate the company was taken at an extraordinary general assembly by majority shareholder SHS Aviation B.V. VLM recently announced that they would be discontinuing scheduled flights to most of its destinations, including its [read more]

The British Government has lifted the ban on laptops and other large electronic devices being carried in the aircraft cabin for passengers flying to the UK from certain countries. The ban, which was introduced in March 2017, was a security measure and followed a similar move by the USA. It [read more]