The last A380 wing left the Airbus UK wing-making facility at Broughton, North Wales on the 6th February but as Airbus runs down the production of the giant airliner, what is next for Airbus UK and it’s manufacturing base. And here it is.. the FINAL A380 Wing!! @AirbusintheUK @Airbus @DeesideDotCom [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has cut its carbon emissions for January down to 69g per passenger, per km. Substantially lower than many of its competitors. The airline has achieved this primarily by maintaining high load factors and having one of the youngest fleets in the industry. The figures make [read more]
Low-cost carrier Norwegian.com has reported strong passenger traffic and revenue numbers for September in its latest financial releases. The airline says it flew 3.3 million people in September which is an increase of 2% with an average load factor of 90%. The growth comes as the airline works through its [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle has had the imminent financial pressure lifted by its bondholders agreeing to an extension on maturity. The trustees held separate bondholders’ meetings for NAS07 and NAS08 unsecured bonds and reported that at both meetings the vote went in favour for the proposed amendments. The amendments mean that [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]
Operators of the Airbus A321neo have been issued with an airworthiness directive by the European Aviation and Space Agency (EASA) alerting it to a problem that could cause the nose to pitch up. According to EASA Airworthiness Directive 2019-0171, the behaviour of the Elevator Aileron Computer unit installed on A321neo [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s second-quarter (Q2) figures show increased profitably for the airline as it continues its current financial strategy. Q2 saw Norwegian, which includes UK & Irish airlines Norwegian Air UK & Norwegian Air International, post operating results of NOK 2.3 billion (before ownership), almost double that of the same [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has revealed it has cut the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions per passenger to just 66g per kilometre (KM). In figures released by the airline for June 2019 the airline says it flew 14.2m passengers 17,789m km releasing CO2 emissions of 1,167kt making Ryanair the cleanest airline flying in [read more]
TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) is adding several new winter routes from UK airports including Bristol, Birmingham, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, London Stansted and Manchester. The new routes include the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, Moroccan hotspot Agadir and the Alpine town of Chambery. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) sees a new service to Memmingen, Germany [read more]
The bi-annual International Paris Air Show got underway at Le Bourget yesterday with a big success for European air-framer Airbus. The Toulouse based company confirmed that it was offering an Extra Long Range variant of its Airbus A321neo, dubbed A321XLR and it was an immediate success attracting orders from Air [read more]
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