UK tour operator TUI has confirmed it has cancelled all holidays to mainland Spain up to and including Sunday 9th August 2020. TUI had cancelled all flights Spain and the Canary Islands today but now says that customers with holidays in the Canary Islands will be able to travel as [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has confirmed it is re-opening Terminal 2 from 15th July as passenger numbers increase at the UK’s 3rd busiest airport. Terminals 2 & 3 closed earlier this year as almost all flights from Manchester Airport were suspended at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. Terminal 3 re-opened [read more]
The union representing Easyjet pilots in the UK has warned its member that they are “on the frontline for the very soul of the airline” as it accuses Easyjet of not acting in good faith. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) gave the warning to members in a letter from [read more]
Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]
Commercial passenger flights are to get underway again at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) when Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) restart flying from Wales’ national airport this week. Flights to Malaga (AGP/LEMG) and Faro (FAO/LPFR) will restart again on the 3rd July with departures at 10:20 and 19:25 respectively. Shortly after Ryanair [read more]
Boeing will begin a three-day flight test programme for the Boeing 737 Max on Monday 29th July in order to get the aircraft re-certified and back into service in 2020. According to sources within Boeing, the programme will be conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) using their own pilots [read more]
The UK Government is set to announce a series of “Air Bridges” to popular holiday spots in order to allow quarantine free travel between those destinations. Sources have suggested that Air Bridges will exists between France, Spain, Italy & Greece but they could be extended to cover the whole of [read more]
London Southend Airport (IATA: SEN, ICAO: EGMC) is located around 35 miles from central London and until the 1970s was the 3rd busiest London airport, losing its crown to Stansted. The airport is a base for Low-cost carriers Easyjet (U2/EZY) and Ryanair (FR/RYR) as well as seeing operations from Wizz [read more]
A report by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has branded British Airways as a ‘national disgrace’ over its plans to fire all 42,000 employees and rehire 30,000 of them under new contracts with lower pay. The report which was published today recognises that the industry has been badly [read more]
The UK Governments latest piece of airline travel advice, which recommends that passengers use hold luggage instead of carry-on bags, has come under criticism with one airline calling it “rubbish”. The advice from the Department of Transport (DoT) says passengers should minimise carry-on bags and instead check luggage in to [read more]
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