Humberside based Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) is set to launch flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle from East Midlands (EMA/EGNX) and Southampton (SOU/EHGI) as it moves flights from Paris Orly. The move from Paris Orly comes after Eastern Airways secured slots to CDG and will start from April in time for [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]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has said it will launch two new routes to Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) in 2023 from the midlands and north of England. The first of the routes launch on the 10th of February 2023 as a daily service from East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) to Newquay using an [read more]
East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) has been forced to close its runway on at least two occasions in the last 24 hours after drones were spotted inside the airport’s Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ). Several flights had to be diverted as the traffic was halted to ensure safety. Every licensed UK airport [read more]
Manchester Airport Group (MAG) says it is expecting the February half-term to be one of the busiest periods it has had since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group says it is expecting around 1.5 million passengers to pass through Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) and London [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it will operate 130 flights per week from East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) in Summer 2022. The move will see East Midlands become one of the Key airports in Ryanairs UK network with flights to 31 European destinations being available from April. Destinations include [read more]
Manchester Airport, the UK’s third-largest airport, has called on the UK government to simplify the coronavirus travel system as new figures reveal that UK air travel continues to be hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The airport wants a simpler two-tier travel system to be introduced which will remove the [read more]
Manchester Airports Group CEO Charlie Cornish has released a damming statement claiming that the Government has “neglected UK aviation”. The statement is in response to the banning of holiday and leisure air travel from 5th November until at least the 2nd December from England and Wales. Mr Cornish said that [read more]
TUI UK along with TUI Airways UK is targeting a return to Egypt’s Sharm-El-Sheikh resort from regional airports next year. The airline currently has a flight program to the region from major airports including Manchester, Birmingham and London Gatwick but has postponed a regional return several times. If plans proceed [read more]
Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted airports has begun talks with Unions over plans to cut up to 900 jobs. It is understood that 465 roles are under threat at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), 376 at London Stansted (STN/EGSS) and 51 at East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) [read more]
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