Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/BBC) will add flights from Manchester to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka (DAC/VHGS) and the important region of Sylhet (ZYL/VGSY) in the New Year. The route will be the first time Biman has operated from Manchester since leaving 7 years ago during a restructuring phase. Starting on the [read more]
Low-cost carrier Norwegian.com has reported strong passenger traffic and revenue numbers for September in its latest financial releases. The airline says it flew 3.3 million people in September which is an increase of 2% with an average load factor of 90%. The growth comes as the airline works through its [read more]
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (RAFAT), The Red Arrows, have gone Cosmic in the USA as they flew with the former Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747, “Cosmic Girl”. The 747 recently left the Virgin Atlantic fleet to start her new life as the launch platform for Virgin Orbit‘s LauncherOne system. [read more]
Canadian Simulator Technology specialist CAE has opened its latest innovative training centres at London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) The new centres, which feature the very latest state-of-the-art flight simulators, will provide advanced training facilities for European airlines including Easyjet which has an exclusive pilot training agreement with [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has set out plans to increase its long-haul operations from the UK’s 3rd largest airport, Manchester (MAN/EGCC). For the Winter 2019/20 season it will add an addition service to the popular Caribbean island of Barbados as well as increased use of the Boeing 747-400 to add capacity [read more]
A 54 year-old man from Llantwit Major has been sent to prison for 32 months after he put the lives of the passengers and crew of a Tui 737 in danger by shining a ‘laser pen’ at it. Micheal Bisgrove of Berry Court, Boverton shone the laser at the Tui [read more]
Air India (AI/AIC) have announced that they are starting direct flights from Amritsar (ATQ/VIAR) to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from November 2019. Announcing the decision, Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the decision was ‘dedicated to mark the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak.’ Mr Puri said the three-times per week [read more]
Norwegian.com is now offering travellers and aviation enthusiasts the “unique opportunity” to fly from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic for less than £400! The journey will begin in Svalbard, Norway and travel over 9,800 miles to Ushuaia, Argentina via London Gatwick. Svalbard is located 650 miles from the North [read more]
Virgin Atlantic has changed the name of Boeing 747-400 G-VLIP from “Hot Lips” top the “The Falcon” as the aircraft has been repainted in a special Star Wars livery. Not officially unveiled yet, the 747 was spotted by photographer Simon Austen coming out of the paint shop and the images [read more]
Over the last few days some unusual aircraft had started to appear at UK and Irish airports including three Boeing 767’s from Eastern and a Malaysian Airbus A380. This combined with handling requests for other wet-lease operators such as HiFly at Gatwick and Manchester were the first clue that the [read more]
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