London City Airport has today received planning permission for expansion from the UK Government which will enable the airport to welcome 6.5 million passengers by 2025 and inject £1.5 billion each year into the economy. The City Airport Development Programme (CADP) is a £344 million privately funded investment which includes plans for 7 new aircraft stands,…
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Malaysia Airlines Berhad (Malaysia Airlines) announced today an order for 25 737 MAX 8 airplanes, valued at $2.75 billion dollars at current list prices. The order, previously attributed to an unidentified customer on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, also includes purchase rights for additional 737 MAX 8 and 737 MAX…
Plans for a £344m expansion of London’s City Airport have been given clearance by the Government. The decision, the Treasury said, would see the creation of 1,600 jobs and potentially add £1.5bn to the UK economy by 2025. It was made against the backdrop of local opposition on environmental grounds and furious debate over airport…
easyJet has today announced that it is to recruit more than 1,200 new permanent and fixed-term cabin crew positions as the airline continues its growth. The carrier, which flies more than 250 aircraft on over 820 routes in 31 countries, will offer its new cabin crew positions across all of its 27 European bases. Around…
Southern Rail reported that there was a fault with the electric third rail at Gatwick and trains are at a standstill. A spokesperson for National Rail said: “A fault with the electric third rail at Gatwick is causing delays of up to 20 minutes to journeys to and from the stations. This is expected to…
Air France cabin crew call for strike from July 27 to August 02, 2016. Further to the call for strike action issued by several airline cabin crew unions, for the period from July 27 to August 02, our flight schedule operated by Air France is disrupted as of Wednesday, July 27, 2016. Please note that…
A passenger allegedly had an ISIS flag tattooed on his arm was removed from a Norwegian flight from Stockholm to Heraklion on Thursday. The flight was to leave Stockholm at 9pm. Reports: the airline refused to fly with the man on board and the captain removed him and his female companion – which caused the flight to…
Singapore Airlines on the 30th October is to move its Houston service to have a stop at Manchester airport instead of Moscow in Russia. The airline will alter their two current routes of: Until 29th Oct: Singapore to Munich to Manchester From 30th Oct: Singapore to Munich Until 29th Oct: Singapore to Moscow to Houston…
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) wishes to advise the residents of Dublin City and its environs that the Italian Aerobatic Display Team, the Frecce Tricolori, will carry out a flypast along the River Liffey at approximately 15:15 today, 21st July, in preparation for landing at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell. The Frecce Tricolori will be taking part…
About 90 minutes late on Iberia flight 8415 Sunday, July 17 because of a technical problem. A CRJ9 flight operated by Air Nostrum (Iberia Group) to Vigo (Spain) scheduled for departure at 15.10 from Fiumicino Airport, took off after 16:30 due to a “technical problem”. No one knew how to push the aircraft on the runway.…
Japan’s ANA is adding a fourth Star Wars-themed aircraft to its fleet, with a Boeing 777-200 in C-3PO livery set to take to the skies from March 2017. The airline, which launched the C-3PO 777-200 at a Star Wars Celebration Europe event in London, said the aircraft would be flown on domestic Japanese routes.
