A report by the UK Airprox Board has concluded that the pilot of a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A350 did not comply with the instructions from Air Traffic Control putting it at “high risk” of colliding with a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 over London last year. The incident, which occurred on [read more]
Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has reported a 29% drop in profits for the 2018/19 full financial year with an after tax profit of €1.02bn. Ryanair says that the drop in profits is partly down to rising fuel costs and falling fares, the average Ryanair fare fell by 6% to around [read more]
St Athan based Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) company, Cardiff Aviation, has been awarded a repeat contract by UK holiday airline TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM). The contract gives TUI a flexible maintenance facility away from its main engineering line and will see Cardiff Aviation carry out work on TUI Airways [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) lined up all four of its specially painted retro jets at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) yesterday to celebrate a milestone for the heritage fleet. The occasion marked the 50,000th customer to fly on one of the four heritage aircraft which were introduced into the fleet over the course [read more]
Jet2 (LS/EXS) has been rated the best UK airline by leading review site, Tripadvisor. The Leeds-Bradford based airline has a score of 4.5 out of 5 from 20,428 reviews with reviewers rating the airline highly for value for money and check in processes. Jet2 operates scheduled and charter flights to [read more]
Air crash investigators probing the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 have concluded that Boeing’s MCAS system was active in the moments before it crashed killing 157 people according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a system that Boeing added to [read more]
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced it has signed a deal to purchase five Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft (AEW&C). The E-7 Wedgetail will replace the Boeing E-3 Sentry Aircraft, known as AWACS, in the Airborne Early Warning & Control for UK airspace and operations [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) final heritage livery, NEGUS, has touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) today. Fresh from the paint shop in Dublin, Boeing 747-400 G-CIVB arrived at Heathrow to complete the line up of four heritage jets celebrating British Airways 100th Anniversary. NEGUS joins BOAC, Boeing 747-400 G-BYGC; BEA, [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is set to launch flights to Sao Paulo, Brazil next year as it expands its network into South America. The flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Sao Paulo International Airport (GRU/SBGR) will take 11hrs 55 minutes and will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Brazil sees [read more]
US Air Force heavy bombers are back in the UK for a training operation that is designed to reassure NATO members in the wake of growing Russian aggression. The deployment of Six Boeing B-52H Stratofortress aircraft to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire began last week and is expected to last for [read more]
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