Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is to axe its base at London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) as well as up to 3,000 workers as it plans its recovery from the Coronavirus Pandemic. In an internal Memo to staff seen by us, Virgin CEO Shai Weiss told staff that the current measures in place [read more]
Gatwick Airport has warned that it could take up to four years to recover from the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic which has seen movements at the airport drop from around 900 a day to just 10. The airport hopes to return to regular flights next month or into early June [read more]
London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) has said that it will consolidate all flights into the South Terminal from 1st April 2020. As with all airports in the UK, Gatwick has lost between 80-90% of its daily flights due to travel restrictions during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. The airport says that it [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) has said that it plans to temporarily lay staff off as it gets set to cancel 3000 flights following a sharp drop off in demand. Like many other airlines, Norwegian is facing a tough time as people curtail travel plans in the wake of the global [read more]
Atlantic Airways (RC/FLI) has confirmed its intention to return to London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) after a 6-year absence to operate a direct service to the Faroe Islands. The service between Gatwick and Vagar (FAE/EKVG) begins on the 23rd June 2020 and will operate until weekly (Tuesdays) until the 11th August 2020. [read more]
Low-cost carrier EasyJet (U2/EZY) has bought the landing slots that belonged to Thomas Cook at Bristol and Gatwick Airports. The official receiver for the bankrupt Thomas Cook made the announcement this morning. The move will allow EasyJet to increase its presence at two key airports and brings the potential of [read more]
With Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) ending its London to Auckland via Los Angeles service from October 2020, the time has never been better to use your local airport to fly to New Zealand. Direct flights have never (and not likely to be any time soon) an option to New Zealand [read more]
Canadian Simulator Technology specialist CAE has opened its latest innovative training centres at London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) The new centres, which feature the very latest state-of-the-art flight simulators, will provide advanced training facilities for European airlines including Easyjet which has an exclusive pilot training agreement with [read more]
London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) has begun the planning process it needs to put the northern runway, which is currently a standby runway, into use on a regular basis. Runway 08L/26R has a length of 8481ft compared to 10,880 feet on the main runway and sits around 400ft to the north [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is to restart flights to the Greek island of Lemnos for summer 2020. The UK charter airline last flew to the island in 2014 but from 25th May 2020 package holidays will available for the island from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) Lemnos is currently only served by British [read more]
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