Flybe have announced the expansion of their presence in Doncaster with 2 brand new routes! They have announced that as part of their 2016/17 winter programme, they will be launching flights to Düsseldorf and Chambery. The Düsseldorf flights are due to start on the 30th October 2016 with the Chambery Flights to be launched on…
The head of Brussels Airport says a limited number of passenger flights are planned to resume Sunday. CEO Arnaud Feist made the announcement Saturday in a news conference at a hotel near the airport. He said the first service on Sunday should be three flights operated by Brussels Airlines, Belgium’s leading carrier, to Faro in…
United Airlines have begun their first transcontinental flight from the West Coast destination of San Fransisco to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. This makes United Airlines the first airline in the world to provide a direct service from the West Coast to the middle eastern destination. United Airlines Flight 954/955 will be operated…
It has been reported that Alaska Airlines have plans to go big within the Northwest Pacific region of the US. They want to do this by trying to takeover Virgin America. It has been reported that they have put in a bid for the airline, although no fee has been announced or been released to…
Zaventem airport in Brussels is expected to reopen this evening as emergency repairs are completed. The airport has been closed since March 22nd when two suicide bombers detonated explosives in the departures hall. The airport is expected to operate at around 20 per cent of capacity when it reopens.
On March 30th, Qatar Airways’ first inaugural service from Doha-Birmingham took place. This mark’s Qatar Airways’ 4th destination within the UK adding to UK flights from Edinburgh, Manchester & London Heathrow. This service will take place 8x per week with their Boeing B787-8 Dreamliner, marking nearly 75 flights per week outside of the UK alone…
Kenya Airways have announced that further cuts will be made to the airline. Earlier, last week, they announced that they were degrading their fleet numbers from 52 aircraft down to 36 aircraft. This week however, they have announced that 600 jobs are to be “retrenched” or “redeployed”, hinting at job cuts. The Kenya Airways CEO…
Lufthansa has received a second A320neo from Airbus. The aircraft, with the registration D-AINB, flew last night to its future base airport, Frankfurt am Main. The first scheduled commercial flight is planned for today and will fly as LH072 to Dusseldorf, making Dusseldorf another destination for the A320neo together with Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.
Garuda Indonesia (GA/GIA) launched their Jakarta (CGK/WIII) – London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) Service on 31st March 2016 from Jakarta to Heathrow’s Terminal 3. The flight landed at 19:48GMT, 53 minutes behind schedule. Garuda Indonesia operate this route with their Boeing B777-300ER Aircraft. The first flight today was flown by PK-GIF from Singapore. The outbound flight will route…
Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai is set to be completed in 2025. The first phase of the airport is set to be completed in 2017. However, over the next 10 years, they aim to break a very significant record within the aviation industry. Passenger numbers. Construction firms working on this airport as well as management…
The aircraft maker said it should be able to achieve the job reductions, equal to about 2% of its worldwide staff, through normal attrition, voluntary buyouts and leaving open positions unfilled. “We’ll only use involuntary layoffs as a last resort,” said spokesman Doug Adler. Last month the company announced a plan to save money by…
A major airport in Sweden has been evacuated after reports of a controlled explosion and two suspicious packages being found. Landvetter Airport reportedly received a bomb threat earlier on today. ALERT https://t.co/1jjhY4y8Qk Domestic flights area at Landvetter Airport in Sweden evacuated due to suspicious package – SVT — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) March 31, 2016 Swedish media…
