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News

Kyle Edmund – To Fly To Serve…… and volley

Britains Number 1 tennis player geared up for Wimbledon this week taking on the ultimate challenge from British Airways. British Airways put Kyle through his paces on their state of the art Boeing 787 simulator, used to train actual British Airways Pilots. With the help of British Airways pilot Captain Meredith [read more]

Norwegian flights to the US
Airline news

Norwegian add Gatwick to Tampa service

Norwegian has added a twice-weekly service to Tampa, Florida from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) as part of Winter 2018/19 changes. The route, which begins on the 31st October will compete directly with legacy carrier British Airways (BA) on what is one of BA’s most popular routes. Norwegian says fares on the [read more]

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News

IATA confirms Ryanair is Europe’s favourite airline

The latest World Airline Transport statistics from IATA show that Ryanair carried more passengers than any other European airline in 2017. The figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show that the Irish budget airline carried 128m passengers between 1st Jan 2017 and 31st December 2017, almost 50% more than [read more]

Norwegian 787 Dreamliner at London Gatwick
Airline news

Lufthansa set to make a bid for Norwegian

German carrier Lufthansa looks set to make a bid for low-cost airline Norwegian.com as Lufthansa CEO confirms the two airlines are in talks. The news comes after British Airways parent International Airlines Group (IAG) failed in their bid to take control of the airline earlier this year when it had [read more]

Fly Erbil 737 (Image: Fly Erbil)
New Routes

Kurdistan startup airline Fly Erbil to start flights to UK

Kurdistan’s first airline, Fly Erbil, will commence flights to the UK next month. The startup airline operated its first flight today flying to Sweden today and will operate from Erbil International Airport (EBL/ORER) in Kurdistan to Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from the 13th July flying via Kiev (IEV/UKKK). The airline has been supported [read more]

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Air show news

Countdown to Farnborough Air Show 2018

With just 4 weeks to go until the bi-annual Farnborough Airshow, we take a look at the top exhibitors and events for both trade and public. The Farnborough Airshow alternates with Paris as Europes premier aviation trade event. Its held on even years (the next one will be 2020) and [read more]

Sun Express Boeing 737-800 (Image: LLA)
New Routes

Sun Express starts new Turkey flights from Luton

Turkish airline Sun Express (ZQ/SXS) has operated its first scheduled flight from London Luton to Antalya, Turkey today. Antalya is the first of four new routes that the airline will operate to Turkey from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) with Ankara, Gaziantep and Bodrum launching later this month. Antalya based Sun [read more]

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Features

Firnas Airways: How not to start an airline

Last night Channel 4 aired a documentary called “How to start an airline” which followed one man’s dream to start an airline with no previous experience and using other peoples money. The programme followed perfume seller turned self-styled “Halal Richard Branson” Kazi Shafiqur Rahman as he embarked on a journey [read more]