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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]

Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) is planning to resume flights to the UK this spring for the first time since it was banned from European & UK airspace six months last year. The ban came after it emerged that hundreds of PIA pilots had “dubious” licences with many having paid others [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced that it launching a new route from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to Knock (NOC/EIKN) next year. The twice-weekly service will launch on 22nd March 2022 and run until at least October 2022. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: “We are pleased to add [read more]

Flybe has reached another milestone in its bid to bring the airline back to the skies by appointing Assured Aviation Services as its ground handling agent at Birmingham Airport. The deal will see 100 local jobs being created for the Warwickshire based company who handle all Flybe’s ground requirements from [read more]