Romanian carrier Blue Air is adding a third daily flight between Bucharest Otopeni and London Heathrow from 14th April 2022. The new rotation will be an evening flight arriving at London Heathrow at 19:35 and departing for Bucharest at 20:25. Like the current rotations, it will be operated by a [read more]
Ryanair’s aircraft delivery programme will create job for 2,000 pilots across Europe as it recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic. The airline has already taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max, The 737-8200 and will receive over 200 one of the type in the coming years. Ryanair says that most [read more]
Air Canada is planning to launch a direct flight between Toronto and Manchester (MAN/EGCC) in Summer 2022. According to filings the route will commence on 1st June 2022 and will be operated by a Boeing 737 Max. The route is currently served by Canadian carrier, Air Transat.
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has set out its plans for flights in Summer 2021 including 26 new routes from the UK to Europe and a return to Belfast City. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said that he expects travel restrictions to be lifted this summer as the UK’s coronavirus vaccination [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has reported loses of €306 (£269) million for the third quarter of its current financial year as traffic for the period dropped 78%. The figures show that while the load factor remained relatively high at 70%, the airline carried just 8.1m passengers in the period [read more]
An Indonesian airliner belonging to local budget airline Sriwijaya Air has crashed off the coast of Indonesia en-route from Jakarta to Pontianak. According to flight data, the aircraft suddenly dropped out of the sky from 10,000ft to sea level in about 60 seconds. The aircraft departed Jakarta at 14:36 local [read more]
Its 31st December 2020, that final day of a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. A year that we should forget, but we never will. It started as a positive year, in fact it was expected to be a record year for air travel with almost [read more]
Troubled Scandinavian budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) (Norwegian.com) has begun a supplementary reconstruction process under Norwegian law in an effort to prevent the company collapsing. The move comes shortly after the airline’s Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International (D8/IBK) recently claimed protection from creditors under the Irish examinership rules. Norwegian [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle has that it has initiated an Examinership process relating to its Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International Limited (D8/IBK). The Dublin airport-based business now has protection from Creditors for 100 days allowing the airline to reorganise its finances which will include ‘right-sizing’ the fleet and to secure new [read more]
Most people who have flown have looked at the engine as they walked past and the keen-eyed will have noticed the white spiral painted on the (usually black) cone. but why is it there? The most common reason people think is that its to scare birds away but whilst the [read more]
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