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]
Data from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority showed that UK airports saw a combined 14.2 million passengers in Summer 2020, the lowest number since 1975. Between July & September, traditionally the busiest month for summer holidays, the drop was 75% on the previous year with some smaller airports reporting no [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is set to use its long-haul fleet to boost capacity on European routes this summer to meet the expected surge for European flights. According to sources close to the airline, many routes that are traditionally operated by single-aisle airliners such as the Airbus A320 with see wide [read more]
With the roadmap out of lockdown starting to to take effect plans are turning to holidays in Summer 2021 and the airlines are responding. Travel agents have seen a massive increase in bookings, particularly for destinations such as Greece, Spain and Portugal so what are the airlines planning for. Jet2 [read more]
Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is being given another £42 million of taxpayers cash from the Welsh Government and will have £40m it already owes written off. Welsh Labour Economy & Transport Minister Ken Skates said that if the government did not pump the money into the airport it owns then it [read more]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD #2021-05-51) ordering US operators of Boeing 777 aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000-112 engines to carry out thermal checks on compressor blades before allowing them to return to service. The directive comes after initial findings by the [read more]
Initial inspections of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000-112 engine that caught fire on flight UA328 on Saturday have found that Turbine Blade No11 sheared off at the root “likely caused by metal fatigue”. Turbine Blade 10 was also sheared mid-way along its length, probably after being hit by Blade 11. [read more]
Boeing has recommended that any airline flying the Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 powered Boeing 777 should ground them pending an investigation into the United Airlines flight which suffered an uncontained engine failure on Saturday. United Airlines, Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines all operate the type of [read more]
In the second incident of its kind today, the engine of a United Airlines Boeing 777 exploded with debris falling on houses below. The incident happened on United Airlines flight 328, a Pratt & Whitney powered Boeing 777, which had taken off from Denver en route to Honolulu. Video of [read more]
Two people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after an engine on a Boeing 747-400F failed sending shards of turbine blades to the ground. The incident involved a Longtail Aviation Boeing 747-400F which had just departed Maastricht Airport bound for New York. One engine suffered an uncontained engine [read more]
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