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Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it has added a direct flight between Bournemouth (BOH/EGHH) to Malta’s Luqa airport this summer. The new route will operate twice per week and brings the number of destinations available from Bournemouth with Ryanair to 15. Managing Director of Bournemouth Airport, Steve Gill said: [read more]
The Transport Select Committee has said that current powers held by the UK aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) are inadequate to deal with airlines that avoid refunding customers for cancelled flights. In the UK Aviation: Reform For Take-Off the committee recommends giving the CAA the power to fine [read more]
Air Canada has said that it will be restarting its direct Manchester to Toronto service from the 1st of June. The flight will operate five times per week leaving Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) at 12:15 and arriving in Toronto at 14:55 (local times) and will be operated by an Airbus A330. [read more]
Irish budget airline (FR/RYR) is discounting tickets on 300,000 seats for travel in May on over 1,000 routes! The “May’jor” sale will see seats available from £16.99 to destinations including Nice, Madrid, Zadar, and Budapest. Ryanair flies from most UK airports including Manchester, Stansted, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Bristol, and Cardiff. [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) is set to fully reopen its terminal 3 from Friday 22nd April to cope with the growing demand for air travel as the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic ease. The terminal, which closed at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic when air travel fell off a cliff, [read more]
The airline dubbed Flybe 2.0 is returning to the skies for the first time since the original company collapsed in 2020 as the airline’s first flight between Belfast City and Birmingham got underway today. BE404 was the first passenger-carrying flight under the Flybe brand since March 2020 and it left [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has launched its Aberdeen (ABZ/EGPD) to Wick John O’Groats (WIC/EGPC) service with the first flight leaving Aberdeen yesterday. The service will now operate (up to) twice daily on weekdays and Sundays and an additional early morning departure will commence from the 25th of April on Mondays, Tuesdays [read more]
The boss of Manchester Airports Group (MAG) Charlie Cornish has apologised to passengers for the queues and congestion and Manchester Airport in the last few weeks. The airport has suffered from staff shortages largely due to staff sickness and staff shortages. This has led to long queues for check-in, security [read more]
UK low-cost airline easyJet (U2/EZY) has been forced to cancel more flights as it continues to struggle with staff absences. The airline is facing further disruption due to not being able to reach crew safety levels on flights as staff are off with Covid. easyJet cancelled hundreds of flights over [read more]
When it comes to Bristol’s congestion, which comes into force later this year, it really is a tale of two airports as the boundaries mean it will be bad news for Bristol Airport, but potentially great news for Cardiff Airport across the river. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) lies outside of the [read more]
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