Canadian airline Air Transat (TS/TSC) will resume flights from London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) tomorrow following a prolonged grounding due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Flights betwen London Gatwick in Toronto will get undewway again tomorrow using the airlines brand new Airbus A321neoLR aircraft. The news is welcome for London Gatwick which [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has confirmed that is retiring the Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet with immediate effect. The airline was the world’s largest operator of the type and has operated the Boeing 747-100, -200 and -400 variants. In a communication to staff British Airways said: “With much regret, we are proposing, [read more]
Boeing is ready to end production of the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet after 50 years according to Bloomberg. Employees haven’t been officially told yet but according to “subtle wording changes in financial statements” the last Boeing 747-8 will leave the Seattle factory in 2022. The news comes as many airlines [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]
United Airlines (UA/UAL) has confirmed it will not be restarting flights from Manchester Airport in 2020. The Chicago, Illinois based airline previously operated a flight between Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) and New York Liberty (EWR/KEWR) and had been due to restart operations on the 24th October after a spring and summer [read more]
Defunct UK Regional Airline Flybe (BE/BEE) has been given a small glimmer of hope yesterday after Cyrus Capital advisor Jonathan Peachley told an australian newspaper that “It’s definitely not the case that we have abandoned Flybe,” Flybe collapsed earlier this year when the airline failed to raise the cash needed [read more]
Spanish flag carrier Iberia (IB/IBE) has confirmed the retirement of its remaining Airbus A340 fleet. The news that that the airline would bring forward the retirement its final 14 Airbus A340-600 aircraft was given to staff in an internal memo and later confirmed by the airline. Iberia is the only [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) has said it will resume flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) from 1st July 2020. Initially the airline will only be operating to Olso and Copenhagen from the UK cities but will announce more routes as the summer moves on. Since the outbreak of [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]
British Airways (BA/BAW) declined to send a representative to a meeting between to the UK’s Home Secretary and key commercial aviation partners to discuss the Governments plans to quarantine passengers arriving into the UK. BA’s biggest competitor Virgin Atlantic and Low-cost carrier Easyjet were among the representatives to attend the [read more]
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