Leading UK holiday airline Jet2 (LS/EXS) has bought the slots belonging to the defunct airline a Thomas Cook at Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted airports. The sale, for an undisclosed amount, was announced by the official receiver. The total amount of slot pairs has also not been confirmed but according to [read more]
Dubai National Air Transport Association (dnata) has announced plans to build a new Cargo facility at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The facility, a purpose-built site known as ‘dnata City North’, is being developed by MAG Property at Manchester Airport’s World Freight Terminal. The site will include a 145,000 sq ft high [read more]
Norwegian’s latest new route from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) got underway today when it officially launched its service to Bergen (BGO/ENBR), Norway. Bergen is Norway’s’ second-largest city & a UNESCO World Heritage City. It is known as the Gateway to the Fjords and visitors can now fly non-stop to the region [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]
TUI UK has announced a raft of new destinations and flights from UK regional airports including Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth and Manchester for Summer 2020. The announcements come as the UK’s leading holiday company embarks on its biggest summer season ever with an extra 2 million seats available across the [read more]
AirBaltic, Latvia’s flag carrier, is to begin direct flights between the Latvian capital Riga and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from March 2020. The route will operate four times per week and will be flown using one of AirBaltic’s state of the art Airbus A220-300 aircraft. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of [read more]
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG/BBC) will add flights from Manchester to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka (DAC/VHGS) and the important region of Sylhet (ZYL/VGSY) in the New Year. The route will be the first time Biman has operated from Manchester since leaving 7 years ago during a restructuring phase. Starting on the [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]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has set out plans to increase its long-haul operations from the UK’s 3rd largest airport, Manchester (MAN/EGCC). For the Winter 2019/20 season it will add an addition service to the popular Caribbean island of Barbados as well as increased use of the Boeing 747-400 to add capacity [read more]
Leading UK airline Jet2 is to increase capacity on four key routes from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for Summer 2020 (S20). These routes that will see the increase are Manchester to Nice (NCE/LMFL), Almeria (LEI/LEAM), Corvera (RMU/LEMI) and Preveza (PVK/LGPZ). The four routes are currently operated by 189-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft [read more]
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