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]
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]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has released a video outlining the measures its taking to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep passengers safe as more and more airlines start to resume flights. The UK’s third-largest airport has been trialling the measures of the last few weeks and now has a comprehensive [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has resumed flights to destiantions including mainland Spain from today, 10 days ahead of their planned restart. The move came as Spain opened its borders once again allowing UK travellers into the popular holiday destination without the need to quarantine. Spain was one of the [read more]
Aerospace engineering giant Rolls-Royce has confirmed that it is cutting 3,000 jobs across 11 UK sites as it deals with a slowdown in the aviation industry due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The majority of the losses will come at the companies UK headquarters in Derby where Jet engines are designed [read more]
Spain has announced that it will remove restrictions on travel for the 1st July paving the way for flights from the UK to the popular holiday destination to resume. Ryanair has already announced that it plans to get 40% its normal schedule from the 1st July and has welcomed the [read more]
Delta Airlines (DL/DAL) has said that it plans to retire all of its Boeing 777 aircraft by the end of 2020. The Atlanta Hartsfield based airline currently has 18 Boeing 777-200 aircraft in its fleet. 10 of which are the Long-Range (200LR) variant. Delta says that decision is a strategic [read more]
Sir Richard Branson is selling his share in the space tourism business, Virgin Galactic to raise money for Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR). The stake is expected to raise around $500m which Virgin Group says will be used to support the groups “leisure, holiday and travel businesses” including the airline. The group [read more]
Firefighters from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) are providing support to the NHS Dragon’s Heart hospital ((Ysbyty Calon y Ddraig) set up at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. The hospital has been set up to treat Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients boosting NHS bed capacity in Wales. 32 Airport Firefighters will form part of [read more]
The first special flight carrying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the Welsh Government is due in to Cardiff Airport today. According to the Welsh Government, the flight from Cambodia is carrying 200,000 fluid resistant gowns and is the first batch of 660,000 gowns ordered. The gowns have been in short [read more]
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