According to sources close to the airline, British Airways (BA/BAW) is reviewing its operations at London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) on orders from owners International Airlines Group (IAG) who want to protect the landing slots at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL). IAG reportedly wants British Airways to focus on operations from London Heathrow as [read more]
Norwegian is to end its trans-Atlantic and Asian long-haul network as part of its restructuring process resulting in over 1,000 job losses at Gatwick Airport. The airline group which has been struggling to weather the pandemic is closing Gatwick based Norwegian Air UK which operated flights to the US, Singapore, [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is restarting a route between London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The flight will operate daily from 28th March 2021 and shows that British Airways does still aim to operate flights from Gatwick and to maintain its valuable slots. British Airways services at London Gatwick all [read more]
Low-cost carrier EasyJet (U2/EZY) and its package holiday arm EasyJet Holidays will offer reduced-price COVID-19 tests to help its customers take advantage of the new Test and Release rules on quarantine. Passengers returning to the UK from countries not on the safe travel list currently have to quarantine for 14-days [read more]
US-based low-cost airline JetBlue (B6/JBU) will start transatlantic flights from Boston and New York to London but without their desired route to Heathrow after the UK’s slot regulator Airport Coordination Ltd (ACL) denied a request for 48 slot pairs at the UK’s biggest airport. As a result, JetBlue has been [read more]
Norwegian.com has said that is aiming to restart transatlantic flights under its Norwegian Air UK subsidiary in late March 2021. The London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) based operation will see flights restart to the USA from the 28th March using its all Boeing 787 fleet. The initial routes will be Boston, Los [read more]
Wizz Air UK sees London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) as its primary focus for expansion in the UK according to Owain Jones, Managing Director of Wizz Air UK. Speaking to The Mail on Sunday Mr Jones said that Wizz Air wants to take control of up to 20 of the daily 110 [read more]
Canadian airline Air Transat (TS/TSC) will resume flights from London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) tomorrow following a prolonged grounding due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Flights betwen London Gatwick in Toronto will get undewway again tomorrow using the airlines brand new Airbus A321neoLR aircraft. The news is welcome for London Gatwick which [read more]
Hundreds of jobs ground staff jobs are set to be lost as the airline transfers all of its current staff to Gatwick Ground Services (GGS). 412 British Airways ground staff will join the existing 511 employees of Gatwick Ground Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Airways, in July [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) has said it will resume flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) from 1st July 2020. Initially the airline will only be operating to Olso and Copenhagen from the UK cities but will announce more routes as the summer moves on. Since the outbreak of [read more]
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