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]
Low-Cost Carrier Easyjet (U2/EZY), which resumes flying on 15th June, has said that it plans to have resumed 75% of its normal summer routes by August. Easyjet operates 1022 routes across Europe and initially plans to fly 50% of those in July and building up to 75% in August. The [read more]
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]
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