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Turkish airline Sun Express (ZQ/SXS) has operated its first scheduled flight from London Luton to Antalya, Turkey today. Antalya is the first of four new routes that the airline will operate to Turkey from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) with Ankara, Gaziantep and Bodrum launching later this month. Antalya based Sun [read more]
British low-cost airliner Easyjet (U2/EZY) has said it sees an opportunity for low-cost flights from Heathrow if the expansion goes ahead. Easyjet says that if the expansion goes ahead then passengers could see fares reduce by up to 30% as low-cost carriers compete against Heathrow’s legacy carriers. The Government has approved [read more]
London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) has unveiled a 5-year plan that will see it pump 1.1bn into the airport as it seeks ways to increase capacity. The UK’s second largest airport is expecting passenger numbers to hit 53m by 2023 but as it has lost out to Heathrow in the government’s airport [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair is to launch flights from London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) from April 2019. The 13 new routes, which already show on Ryanair’s website, include: Alicante (5 weekly) Barcelona Reus (2 weekly) Bilbao (4 weekly) Brest (2 weekly) Corfu (2 weekly) Cluj (3 weekly) Dublin (2 daily) Faro [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has increased its wide-body operation at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) with additional A330 services over the summer. The UK holiday airline, which recently launched a direct service from Manchester to Seattle (SEA/KSEA) will use its wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft on 8 additional services across Europe and Turkey. Thomas [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair has come under fire on social media over its latest campaign to get students to book flights which features a man asleep on a beach next to an empty bottle of alcohol under the tag line “Book on ryanair.com in between “studying” tonight. This could be you ?”. Facebook [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has signed a code-share agreement with Fiji’s national airline, Fiji Airways (FJ/FJI). As of today, British Airways passengers can book flights to the Fijian gateway of Nadi from its hubs at Singapore, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The South Pacific has traditionally been a hard place to [read more]
The cabinet recently approved the Heathrow Expansion plan but what does that mean for regional airports? How have they taken the news? We ask 3 major regional airports for their views. Cardiff Airport was quick to point out how Cardiff can complement London’s air traffic. Chief Executive Officer Deb Barber [read more]
Norwegian airline Wideroe is to begin direct flights from Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) to Bergen (BGO/ENBR) later this year. The twice-weekly flights will begin on the 17th August and operate on Mondays and Fridays. Bergen is Norway’s second city and known as the gateway to the Fjords. Surrounded by mountains and fjords Bergen is [read more]
Low-cost long-haul airline Primera Air is suspending transatlantic services from Birmingham Airport due to delays of its new aircraft. Primera Air started flights to New York in May using a leased National Airlines 757 and had planned to start flights to Toronto later this month but it has now suspended [read more]
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