Primera Air, the Danish based low-cost carrier that operated from Birmingham and London Stansted, ceased trading yesterday leaving thousands of passengers either stranded abroad or having to cancel travel plans and its collapse comes as a warning to all flight only passengers, there is likely to be no rescue. Primera [read more]
Low cost airline Primera Air has ceased operations after it failed to secure the financing to continue trading. The email tells staff that Primera Air Nordic and Primera Air Scandinavia will file for bankruptcy and the airline ceased operations at midnight leaving thousands of passengers stranded across Europe and on [read more]
Belgian aircraft materials manufacturer Solvay has said it plans to create up to 50 jobs in North Wales as it expands its adhesives, surfacing films and lightning strike protection operations. The state-of-the-art facility in Wrexham will manufacture aerospace structural adhesives and surfacing films at the new site which was inaugurated on the [read more]
Welsh wings made by Airbus in Broughton are helping the newly delivered Airbus A350-900ULR fly routes up to 9,700nm. The Ultra Long Range (ULR) variant of the ground breaking A350XWB range of aircraft has just entered service with Singapore Airlines, who have ordered 7 of the type. Aside from the [read more]
Low-Cost carrier Norwegian.com is extending the lease of a Wamos Air A330-200 until the the end of October. The Wamos aircraft will operated the London Gatwick to New York JFK service from 2nd September to 27th October, a route normally operated by a state of the art Boeing 787-9. The [read more]
GKN Fokker Services, part of GKN Aerospace, has been granted a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) by EASA for its ADS-B Out modification for Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. The certificate allows GKN Fokker Services to carry out the modification to ADS-B Out on Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft ahead of the deadline [read more]
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air is to launch its UK airline, Wizz Air UK in October 2018. Operating under the W9/WUK codes the airline will launch at London Luton on the 28th October. Wizz Air UK will initially operate flights from London Luton to Lisbon & Eilat, with Kharkiv being [read more]
Jet Airways has said it will increase the planned frequency of its Manchester to Mumbai service which is due to start in November. The Indian airline will now offer the service five times per week from launch with flights operating on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday using an Airbus [read more]
The first Ultra-Long Range (ULR) Airbus A350 XWB has emerged out of the paint shop in full Singapore Airliners livery today. MSN220 is the first of Seven A350-900 ULR for the Singapore Airlines who plan to use it on routes including Singapore to New York with which it will reclaim its [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is making changes to its US West Coast services from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for Summer 2019. The airline had previously planned to operate a 3 times-per-week flight to Los Angeles from May 2019 but this has now been reduced to a twice-weekly service from 21st June 2019. [read more]
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