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Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, has announced it is increasing the discount for a UK domestic passenger by 50%. The discount was introduced to make it cheaper for domestic passengers to use Londons Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) and encourage domestic flights. It counters some of the harmful effects of the Governments [read more]

2017 has been one to celebrate for Manchester as it bags all four of the key best UK Airport awards including Travel Weekly, Travel Bulletin, Travel Trade Gazette and Selling Travel. The year started with the first award being collected in January at Travel Weekly’s Globe Awards in London for [read more]

Bristol Airport has been forced to close as a regional jet runs off runway in a landing incident. The BMI Regional Embraer RJ145 (Not pictured) had landed at the airport from Frankfurt but is understood to have run off the runway at the opposite end whilst taxiing. No injuries have [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is gearing up for what is expected to be the busiest Christmas period in 7 years for Wales’ national airport. Around 30,000 passengers are expected to fill the terminal over the next two weeks, a 10% increase on 2016. Amsterdam tops the destinations from Cardiff Airport this [read more]

TUI Airways UK has announced a raft of new routes for Summer 2018. This will be the first full summer for the airline operating under TUI UK titles and branding. The new routes from airports around the UK include Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, Turkey and the Greek Islands. UK Airport Destination Starts [read more]

Ryanair has weathered its first ever strike this morning as German Pilots carried out a 4-hour walkout. Having previously called off the strike when Ryanair agreed to meet with and recognise unions however it emerged that one of the representatives from VC Cockpit, the German union, was a former pilot who [read more]

Today Emirates (EK/UAE) announced the new daily route to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) using the Boeing 777-300ER airframe with the new first class suites. This is due to the growth of London Stansted and the location of the near technology and pharmaceutical businesses. Emirates plan for this route to cover the North [read more]

Hungarian carrier Wizz Air is continuing its London Luton expansion with the addition of 3 more routes. Wizz Air, which has been the benefactor of slots from defunct Monarch, is adding flights to Bari, Athans and Keflavik from the south-east airport. Having previously announced 5 new routes the latest city pairings are [read more]