Destinations

Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/BBC) will add flights from Manchester to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka (DAC/VHGS) and the important region of Sylhet (ZYL/VGSY) in the New Year. The route will be the first time Biman has operated from Manchester since leaving 7 years ago during a restructuring phase. Starting on the [read more]

Air India (AI/AIC) have announced that they are starting direct flights from Amritsar (ATQ/VIAR) to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from November 2019. Announcing the decision, Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the decision was ‘dedicated to mark the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak.’ Mr Puri said the three-times per week [read more]

UK Charter Airline Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) has changed the route of its one-off charter to Cairns, Australia in 2020. The flight leaves the London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) on 8th January 2020 and was originally due to operate via Goa, India (GOI/VOGO) but a change to the scheduling now means it will [read more]

Low-cost airline Norwegian is to end all transatlantic flights from Ireland from the 15th Septemeber 2019 after undertaking a review of its services. Currently Norwegian flies six routes to the USA and Canada from Dublin, Cork and Shannon which were set up to be operated by the airlines Boeing 737 [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced that it will be moving all direct flights from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Beijing to tyhe new state-of-the-art Daxing airport (PKX/ZBAD). The move from the current airport, Beijing Capital (PEK/ZBAA) will take on all flights from 27th October 2019. British Airways is the first international [read more]

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is set to launch flights to Sao Paulo, Brazil next year as it expands its network into South America. The flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Sao Paulo International Airport (GRU/SBGR) will take 11hrs 55 minutes and will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Brazil sees [read more]

Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is to create a new base in Toulouse, France. The two-aircraft base will open in October 2019 and will serve 20 routes including 11 new ones including: Alicante (2 per week) Brest (3) Budapest (2) Lille (daily) Luxembourg (3) Marseille (Daily service) Oujda [read more]

Ryanair is launching a direct flight from Cardiff Airport to Malaga this summer according to its website, bringing the number of destinations served from Wales’ national airport to six. The flight (FR4950/4951) will operate 3 times per week from 3rd June through to September. Ryanair’s Robin Keily said: “Ryanair is [read more]