Low-cost airline Primera Air began services from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) this week with flights to New York starting on Friday 18th May. The airline’s operation at Birmingham got underway on Monday with the first flight to Malaga and Palma from the Midlands airport. Primera, like many other airlines, is being hit by [read more]
The annual Airport Operators Association (AOA) Airport Safety Week is underway across the UK with events taking place at 50 UK airports. The event is consists of a week-long series of events to promote the importance of safety to airport teams, visitors and customers. Events can range from tours of the [read more]
Air India has announced that it is increasing the frequency of its flight from Birmingham to Amritsar to three times-per-week from 5th May 2018. The service currently operates twice-weekly but the airline will add an additional service on Saturday evenings. The flight will arrive Birmingham Airport at 18:15 and depart for [read more]
Low-cost, long-haul airline Primera Air has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321neo aircraft. The CFM Leap 1 powered A321neo, OY-PAA, was handed over at a ceremony in Hamburg on Monday after which it flew to Copenhagen and Billund. The aircraft will operate transatlantic flights from the UK to destinations [read more]
Low-Cost airline Jet2.com has announced it is increasing flights at some airports and adding a new route at East Midlands in the 2nd half of Summer 18. Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) sees increases on 5 routes with Corfu increases to twice-weekly, Iraklion, Mahon and Rhodes to four-times-per-week and Zakynthos up to [read more]
TUI has announced what it describes as its “most ambitious summer programme ever” for Summer 2019 including extra capacity and new routes at Manchester Airport, Birmingham Airport and Cardiff Airport. The UK Holiday company has said it will basing additional aircraft giving an increase in capacity of 110,000 at Manchester, [read more]
Low-cost airliner Primera Air has announced several new routes including from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Malaga, Spain. The route will be operated from Primera Air’s new base in Malaga and will operate 4 times per week on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Primera Air says that Malaga is traditionally [read more]
A TUI flight from Malaga to Bristol diverted to Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) last night due to a ‘technical issue’ and adverse weather at Bristol. The Flight, TOM6711, was being operated by a Boeing 757-200 G-OOBH. The aircraft is understood to have had an issue with the flaps on approach to [read more]
Danish low-cost carrier Primera Air has cancelled its planned launch of its Birmingham to Boston flights. The planned 3 times per week service from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to Boston (BOS/KBOS) was due to begin on 22nd June 2018. The transatlantic route would have been operated by an Airbus A321neo. Birmingham [read more]
An amazing year of growth has seen Primera Air ranked 6th best in the Anna.aero list of top global airlines for low-cost long-haul flights. Following a year that saw the airline grow 125.8% overall, the Danish low-cost carrier (LCC) has been rapidly expanding in the UK introducing new long-haul and [read more]
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