The final two remaining British Airways Boeing 747 aircraft at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) are to be given a special send off next week as they depart on their final flights. BA100 Negus livered G-CIVB will depart simultaneously alongside G-CIVY using both runways at the airport. One of the two aircraft [read more]
Rolls-Royce for many is the gold standard in jet engines, they power some of the biggest, fastest and most-efficient aircraft in the sky such as the Trent powered Boeing 777 or the mighty Pegasus powered Harrier Jump-Jet. The names alone – Olympus, Proteus, Nene – are names that conjure up [read more]
Dublin, Ireland based Aviation maintenance company, Dublin Aerospace Group, has launched Exeter Aerospace in the former Flybe Maintenance Facility at Exeter Airport. The group already provides maintenance for Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 & A330 families at its site in Ireland but now aims to complement that with regional jet [read more]
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/BBC) is aiming to restore its 2nd weekly flight from Dhaka to London Heathrow via Sylhet. The airline is currently only operating one weekly flight after capacity was cut during the recent pandemic. This means that from 25th October the flight will now operate on Wednesdays and [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced that it plans to added a second route to Pakistan, from London Heathrow to Lahore. The move comes just days after Virgin Atlantic announced that it was launching services to Islamabad and Lahore from London and Manchester. The British Airways flight will operate 4 times-per-week [read more]
A Tui Airways UK Boeing 737 Max is flying in UK airspace for the first time in over a year as it positioned from Tenerife to Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) via Malaga. The flight using G-TUMF was given special dispensation to operate and was restricted to a maximum altitude of 18,000ft and [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) flight 113 from Heathrow to New York JFK is currently on it’s way back to Heathrow after declaring an emergency over Wales. The aircraft, a Boeing 777 G-VIIC, was climbing to its cruise altitude when it suddenly started to descend down to 10,000ft, declaring an emergency and [read more]
According to muliple sources Oman Air is ending its Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Muscat service at the end of October 2020. Oman Air had previously planned to operate the flight throughout the Winter 20/21 and Summer 21 but the flights have been taken off sale with the last available date being [read more]
Tui Airways UK (BY/TOM) will launch a new service from London Luton (LTN/EGGW) to Innsbruck, Austria (INN/LOWI) this winter. The service will operate weekly on Saturdays from 26th December giving visitors the potential for a week of skiing or just soaking up the Tyrolean atmosphere. The flight times even offer [read more]
One of the Boeing B52-H Bombers currently deployed to RAF Fairford as part of the Bomber Task Force has been involved what the US Air Force describes as an ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ interception by a Russian fighter. The incident, which occurred on Friday 28th August Aug. 28, 2020, involved two [read more]
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