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German carrier Lufthansa shocked the aviation industry yesterday when the announcement came they were to abandon a deal to buy defunct Air Berlins leisure carrier, NIKI leaving the airline insolvent. The news means that the Austrian leisure carrier has now been forced to cancel all flights from December 14th after [read more]

Ireland based Ryanair pilots who are members of IALPA have notified Ryanair of their intent to take industrial action before Christmas, a move which the Irish budget carrier says it will “face down”. 83 Ryanair pilots who are members of the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) voted to take industrial [read more]

The German Pilots association,  Vereinigung Cockpit, has said that Ryanair can expect industrial action, including strikes, at any time over what it describes as “systematic social dumping” by Ryanair. The action is intended to assist Ryanair Pilots in their collective bargaining process for fair and transparent working conditions. Ingolf Schumacher, Head [read more]

UK Low Cost Carrier Easyjet has added 3 new destinations from Belfast International (BFS/EGAA) for Summer 2018. The LCC will offer flights to Naples (NAP/LIRN), Valencia (VLC/LEVC) and, in a contender for the shortest route on the network, to the Isle of Man (IOM/EGNS) just 67nm away from Belfast. The [read more]

Virgin Atlantic is changing some A330 routes at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to the smaller -200 version in 2018. Starting from March ’18, flights from Manchester to Atlanta (ATL/KATL) and New York (JFK/KJFK) will use the smaller Airbus A330 variant and from May ’18, Barbados (BGI/TBPB), Boston (BOS/KBOS) and San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) [read more]

The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed to a 50% increase in permitted flights to China raising the potential weekly flights from 100 to 150. The move is designed to allow for a huge expansion in routes and capacity for flights to China from the UK. One of the [read more]

Iberia Express has confirmed that they will operate flights between Cardiff  (CWL/EGFF) and Madrid (MAD/LEMD) again in Summer 2018. The airline, owned by International Airlines Group (IAG), linked the two capitals for the first time in 2017 with a successful summer season. The demand for seats has prompted the airline [read more]

Operations at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) are returning to normal this morning after a day disruption as the country was hit by snow. With Wales seeing up to 20cm of snow on Sunday, Cardiff Airport suffered cancellations and delays as well as handling diversions from other airports including London Heathrow as [read more]