British Airways (BA/BAW) has said that it is undertaking a trial to explore the possibility of using 3D Printers to create aircraft parts. The airline says that it could routinely print parts such as tray tables or aircraft windows in a bid to reduce it having to fly spare parts [read more]

Ongoing industrial action in France is causing severe delays to flights to France and across its airspace according to Eurocontrol. Western and Southern France seems to be the worst affected areas with Bordeaux Airspace expecting an average delay of around 1hr 10 mins and around 40 mins for aircraft transiting [read more]

London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGL) has reported its busiest November ever as it prepares for the big Christmas getaway. The airport saw 6.2 million passengers in November helped in part by travellers heading home to the United States of America for thanksgiving. Traffic to the US from Heathrow grew by over [read more]

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has confirmed it is sending a team to Liverpool Aiport (LPL/EGGP) after a private jet veered off the runway after landing earlier today. The aircraft, a Bombardier Global 6000, left the runway to the right after landing at the airport in rainy conditions. It [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is launching a brand new route from Liverpool Airport (LPL/EGGP) to Zadar (ZAD/LDZD), Croatia. The route will be part of Ryanair’s Summer 2020 schedule from the airport and will operate twice-weekly from May. Ryanair’s Eimear Ryan said: “Ryanair is pleased to launch a new Liverpool route [read more]

Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) has announced that it has selected Airbus aircraft to form the backbone of its Project Sunrise project to operate regular non-stop flights from Australia to London and New York. The airline has selected Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft which is great news for the United Kingdom as not [read more]

Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced a number of route and service upgrades for 2020 including two new international routes from Scotland. Both new routes are from Edinburgh Airport (EDI/EGPH) and are a five-times-weekly service to Hanover, Germany and a three-times-weekly service to Esbjerg, Denmark. Other service upgrades include the [read more]

US Airframer Boeing has said it will suspend production of its 737 Max aircraft next month. Boeing had continued with the production of the model which has been grounded for the last 9 months following two fatal crashes of the type linked to a flaw in the flight control software. [read more]