Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) is planning to resume flights to the UK this spring for the first time since it was banned from European & UK airspace six months last year. The ban came after it emerged that hundreds of PIA pilots had “dubious” licences with many having paid others [read more]
Budget airline easyJet (U2/EZY) and Virgin Atlantic have signed a deal through Worldwide by easyJet to interline passengers at Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast airports. The deal means that passengers will be able to connect from domestic or European easyJet flights to seamlessly connect to long-haul flights bound for the US [read more]
Aer Lingus UK commenced its Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Orlando (MCO/KMCO) on Saturday bringing the total number of Aer Lingus transatlantic routes from the northern gateway to 3. The launch saw EI35, operated by an Airbus A330, departing Manchester at 11:49 local time arriving in Orlando around 9 hours later [read more]
Aer Lingus UK (EG/EUK), the wholly-owned British subsidiary of Aer Lingus, has today launched its service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to New York JFK (JFK/KJFK). The flight was operated by an Airbus A330 and departed Manchester Airport at 1257 today and is due to arrive in New York at 16:15 [read more]
Manchester Airport is set to become the UK’s first airport to have a direct supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) thanks to a new partnership with Fulcrum BioEnergy. Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns Manchester Airport along with London Stansted and East Midlands, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it will launch a new air link between the Northern Irish airport of Derry (LDY/EGAE) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC). Starting the 1st December 2021, the flight will operate three times per week using a Boeing 737-800. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason Mc Guinness, said: [read more]
Aer Lingus’ UK based subsidiary, Aer Lingus UK (EG/EUK), is set to begin transatlantic operations for the first time next week as it launches its direct service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Barbados. The airline, which is based at Manchester Airport, will see Aer Lingus compete with Virgin Atlantic on [read more]
Air Transat (TS/TSC) is set to resume its weekly direct flight to Toronto, Canada from Manchester next week as it returns to the airport for the first time since the Coronavirus pandemic all but grounded air travel in the UK. The popular route will operate from Terminal One at the [read more]
Norwegian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY/NAX) returned to Manchester Airport as it restarted flights between the northern gateway and Oslo. The airline is the latest to use Manchester revamped Terminal two “super-terminal” and joins the likes of Air France, Jet2 and Cathay Pacific. Norwegian will operate the route between [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]
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