Turkish low-cost-carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines is set to strengthen its links to the UK by adding a 3rd destination, Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to its existing routes to Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from Istanbul. Operating three times per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the route will connect Birmingham [read more]
Turkiye’s newest airline, Southwind Airlines, is launching flights from Antalya, Turkiye to 10 UK airports for Summer 2024 as it looks to expand its route map. Southwind Airline launched in 2022 to continue to connect Russian tourists with Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast and later that year it added flights to Germany [read more]
Leading UK holiday airline Jet2.com (LS/EXS) has announced it is adding two destinations in Morocco to its growing network of destinations together with Jet2 Holidays. Flights to Agadir and Marrakech will commence in the Winter 2024/25 season and continue through the Summer of 2025 from several UK airports. There will [read more]
Low cost carrier easyJet (U2/EZY) is set to create a three aircraft base at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from early 2024. easyJet already operates some flights from midlands airport but this will be the first time that the airline has actually based aircraft and crew there creating jobs in the process. [read more]
Leading regional airliner Loganair (LM/LOG) has it a milestone of 30,000 passengers on its Isle of Man to Birmingham route. Isle of Man resident, Sidney Cunningham, was Loganair’s 30,000th passenger to fly from Isle of Man to Birmingham and as a result, was gifted a free return flight courtesy of [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has extended its use of 3rd party MRO providers for its winter maintenance needs by awarding STS Aviation a contract. The agreement will see STS work on Ryanair’s fleet of Boeing 737s at its facility at Birmingham Airport. Ian Bartholomew, Senior Vice President Business Development Europe at STS [read more]
The airline dubbed Flybe 2.0 is returning to the skies for the first time since the original company collapsed in 2020 as the airline’s first flight between Belfast City and Birmingham got underway today. BE404 was the first passenger-carrying flight under the Flybe brand since March 2020 and it left [read more]
The reborn regional airline Flybe has taken another step closer to launch as its starts to recruit cabin crew and managers at its Birmingham and Belfast hubs. Flybe has always targeted an early 2022 launch but the closing date for job applications make it unlikely to be before the end [read more]
The reborn Flybe, which is due to launch in the coming months, has come under fire from the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) over apparent confidentiality rules being forced on its pilots. The Telegraph has cited ‘industry sources’ as saying that pilots joining the regional airline are facing “unusually aggressive” [read more]
UK start-up airline Hans Airways has signed a letter of intent to lease an Airbus A330 aircraft from Spanish airline, Air Europa as it seeks to launch flights this year. Hans Airways is currently in the process of obtaining an Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Civil Aviation Authority and [read more]
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