London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) is expected to be closed until at least 16:00hrs today following a sustained drone attack on the airport that forced it to close its runway late last night. Reports first emerged just late yesterday evening that a number of drones where being flown in the vicinity [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has unveiled its expansion plans to take it to its planned 12 million passengers by 2025. The rapidly growing regional airport, which is a base a major hub for low-cost airline Easayjet (U2/EZY), has plans included an extended terminal, more parking and an extended canopy at the [read more]
Regional airline FlyBMI (BM/BMR) has announced it will begin a daily flight from Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM) to Munich (MUC/EDDM). The service will begin on the 8th April 2019 and will be operated daily by one of the airlines regional jets. Munich is a popular city with British tourists and [read more]
Low-cost airline Norwegian.com is looking on good financial shape going into 2019 thanks to a deal agreed with Rolls-Royce. The airline had been affected by the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 problems that grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners fitted with the Rolls-Royce variant. In a year end statement the airline said it had [read more]
French Airport operator Vinci Airports is to buy a controlling stake in London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK), the UK’s second busiest airport. Vinci Airpors, which operates several airports around the world including Lyon in France, Faro in Portugal and Santiago in Chile, will take a 50.01% stake in the London Airport [read more]
Scandinavian Airlines (SK/SAS) has announced a new addition to its list of destinations from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for Summer 2019. The airline will now fly direct to gthe Danish city of Aarhus from the 1st April 2019 and will operate 3 times weekly (SK1538/SK1537) using a Cityjet Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft. [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) will be welcoming in the 2019 with thousands of passengers who will either be in the airport, or on a flight as the clock strikes midnight and as a result, they will be welcoming in the the New Year in 45 languages. British Airways says 2000 of [read more]
Icelandic low-cost airline WOW Air (WW/WOW) is to move all flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from the end of March 2019. The move will mean anyone who has booked the daily flight from Gatwick to Reykjavik (KEF/BIKF) after that date from Gatwick will have their flight [read more]
As the new year begins, so do the January sales but rather than picking up that new scarf or dress, why not pick up a bargain flight. Here is our round up of the very best New Year sales from the UK airports. Norwegian Norwegian.com is offering flights to the [read more]
Cabin Crew at Ryanair’s Spanish bases are set to carry out three 24 hour strikes this month over their working conditions and what they say is a failure by the Irish budget airline to comply with local laws. The two unions representing the cabin crews, USO and Sitcpla, has said [read more]
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