London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has announced the launch of six new routes ahead of the Easter weekend as the airport prepares for its busiest Easter ever. UK low-fares airline Easyjet has launched flights to Palermo & Genoa, Italy; Reus, Spain and Dalaman, Turkey while Wizz Air has launched flights to [read more]
Ryanair’s plan to buy 75% of Laudamotion gives the Irish budget carrier something different, 15 Airbus A320 aircraft. Until now, Ryanair has been a staunch single type airline, namely the Boeing 737-800. It is, in fact, one of Boeing’s biggest customers and their relationship with European airframer Airbus has been somewhat [read more]
European Airlines are warning passengers that they face severe disruption as French air traffic controllers go on strike once again over pay and conditions. Ryanair has already cancelled hundreds of flights and other airlines are likely to follow suit as the strike, which started at 18:00hrs today takes hold. In [read more]
International Women’s Day 2018 is a chance to celebrate women and in aviation, they don’t come any bigger than Amy Johnson. Amy Johnson CBE was born in Kingston Upon Hull in 1903 and after leaving university with a degree in Economics took up a job in London as a solicitors secretary. [read more]
Every now and again you need to get somewhere cheap and when it comes to fares, rarely is anyone cheaper than Ryanair. But that cheap air fair comes at a cost right? Given the choice I would go full-service every time, nothing beats slipping into that plush business class seat [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has reported 2017 as its busiest ever year with passenger figures topping 8.1m. The South West regional airport saw an increase of over 600,000 passengers compared to 2016 which equates to an 8% increase over the year. Bristol AIrport is England’s third largest regional airport and a base [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced the busiest summer ever at London’s Gatwick airport. Summer 2017 at Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) saw around 1000 flights per week from British Airways but 2018 will see around 160 additional weekly flights. The increase comes after the successful acquisition of slots made available when Monarch [read more]
Over last the two decades, Aviation globally has completely changed. It is now something that is easily accessible to everyone. But as it is getting harder and harder to differentiate between the legacy airlines and low-cost budget airlines, are we now witnessing the slow demise of the legacy carriers as [read more]
Bruce Dickinson has said that Cardiff Aviation must have cash invested in the company to continue its Maintenance & Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility at St Athan. At an organised press event Mr Dickinson claimed that he had “credible overseas investors” lined up ready to invest around £15m into the [read more]
Budget carrier WOW has dealt a blow to Bristol Airport as it drops the Bristol – Reykjavik service after just 2 summers. Bristol Airport heralded WOW’s arrival which offered initially a daily flight to Reykjavik (KEF/BIKF) but the Icelandic low-cost carrier (LCC) has struggled to make the route profitable. The [read more]
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