The Government is considering cutting Air Passenger Duty (APD) on domestic flights in a bid to save regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE). It is understood that Flybe currently owes around £100m in unpaid Air Passenger Duty but deferring it would be seen as state-aid under EU regulations meaning the only viable [read more]
Ongoing industrial action in France is causing severe delays to flights to France and across its airspace according to Eurocontrol. Western and Southern France seems to be the worst affected areas with Bordeaux Airspace expecting an average delay of around 1hr 10 mins and around 40 mins for aircraft transiting [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has announced it will drop its London Southend to Glasgow route from 3rd January 2020. Loganair is operating the route with a 49-seat Embraer RJ145 Regional Jet making it hard to compete against the numerous low-cost options between London to Glasow from airlines such as Easyjet and Ryanair. [read more]
The Condé Nast Traveller Readers Awards is one of the travel industry’s most hotly awaited lists for those working in the travel industry, and this year, travellers have spoken once again. The top three cities in the UK to fly to with family are Edinburgh, London and Liverpool – all of which are also [read more]
Leading UK holiday airline Jet2 (LS/EXS) has bought the slots belonging to the defunct airline a Thomas Cook at Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted airports. The sale, for an undisclosed amount, was announced by the official receiver. The total amount of slot pairs has also not been confirmed but according to [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]
With the collapse of Thomas Cook earlier this week it left a lot of cabin crew without jobs and facing an uncertain future. Many airlines including Ryanair have said they will fast track applications from Thomas Cook crews but which UK airlines are actually recruiting? TUI Airways UK TUI Airways [read more]
Airbus has hit a new milestone when it delivered its 9000th Airbus A320 family aircraft earlier this month. The aircraft, an Airbus A320neo (A20N) was delivered to leading low-cost carrier Easyjet (U2/EZY) on September 13th. The A320 family, and the newer A320neo family, are the second most popular airline in [read more]
Flights across Europe from the UK are being hit with delays this morning due to a computer outage with French Air Traffic Control. Airlines including Easyjet, British Airways and Ryanair have all suffered delays as a result of the problems which affected flights flying to and over France. Paris Airport, [read more]
Over 2,600 flights are scheduled to depart the UK on August 23rd 2019 according to data from travel data analytics experts, Cirium. Nearly half a million Brits will depart the UK ahead of the late summer bank holiday to destinations across the globe. Legacy carrier British Airways will carry around [read more]
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