Tui Airways UK (BY/TOM) has begun carrying out air tests on its fleet of Boeing 737 Max8 aircraft ahead of their return to service ahead of the summer season. Tui’s has begun carrying out the necessary upgrades to the systems to meet the new airworthiness criteria with the first air [read more]
The owners of European budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR), Ryanair Holdings PLC, has said it plans to appeal the EU Commission’s ruling on state-aid to Air France and SAS. The case centres around state-aid given to Air France by the French Government and SAS by the Swedish Government in the form [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has reported loses of €306 (£269) million for the third quarter of its current financial year as traffic for the period dropped 78%. The figures show that while the load factor remained relatively high at 70%, the airline carried just 8.1m passengers in the period [read more]
In a stroke of good news after months of border closures and travel bans, India is allowing UK flights into the country once more. Hardeep Singh Puri, the civil aviation minister, announced on 1 January that flights between India and the UK would resume starting 8 January. This comes shortly [read more]
A West Atlantic Boeing 737 cargo aircraft has suffered substantial damage after a “hard landing” at Exeter Airport. The incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning after a flight from East Midlands Airport. The aircraft involved was Boeing 737-400 G-JMCY. Images widely shared on social media show substantial [read more]
Norwegian is to end its trans-Atlantic and Asian long-haul network as part of its restructuring process resulting in over 1,000 job losses at Gatwick Airport. The airline group which has been struggling to weather the pandemic is closing Gatwick based Norwegian Air UK which operated flights to the US, Singapore, [read more]
Indonesian Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto has said there are no signs of survivors in the crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 which happened on Saturday. The aircraft crashed just minutes after take-off from Jakarta airport after falling from 10,000ft in less than a minute. Search and Rescue teams have [read more]
An Indonesian airliner belonging to local budget airline Sriwijaya Air has crashed off the coast of Indonesia en-route from Jakarta to Pontianak. According to flight data, the aircraft suddenly dropped out of the sky from 10,000ft to sea level in about 60 seconds. The aircraft departed Jakarta at 14:36 local [read more]
At 19:52 on the evening of 8th January 1989 British Midland flight 92 took off from London Heathrow bound for Belfast International Airport. 42 minutes later 47 people on board would be dead due in part to confusion. The Boeing 737-400 (G-OBME) took off from Heathrow as normal and the [read more]
Charter specialist Titan Airways (ZT/ZWC) has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321P2F (Passenger to Freighter) cargo aircraft, the first of its kind in the Europe. The Aircraft, an ex-Thomas Cook Airbus A321, was converted by ST Engineering in Singapore and returned to its owner, Leasing Specialist BBAM Aircraft Leasing [read more]
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