US low-cost airline Jetblue (B6/JBU) is to launch flights to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) in 2021 according to multiple sources close to airline. The airline is launching two transatlantic flights from Boston (BOS/KBOS) and New York JFK (JFK/KJFK). The new routes will be the first flights to Europe for the airline [read more]
A top Boeing executive and product developer has poured water onto claims by Airbus that it will have a Hydrogen-powered airline in service by 2035. Commercial vice-president and general manager of product development at Boeing, Michael Sinnett, spoke the day after Airbus made the announcement and said that while Hydrogen [read more]
Denmark, Slovakia & Iceland have all been removed from the UK’s safe travel corridor list along with the Dutch-Caribbean island of Curacao. The changes mean that anyone arriving to the UK via an English airport from these countries after 4 am on 26th September will have to self-isolate for 14-days. [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) and Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) have both announced flights from Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Newquay (NQY/EGHQ) today. The two regional airlines will both compete on the route in Summer 2021 however Eastern Airways will operate a year round sound from 23rd October 2020. Eastern Airways says that its year-round service [read more]
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled the latest government support to keep people in jobs as the Coronavirus pandemic rises again in the UK. The current Job Retention Scheme, or furlough, scheme has paid up to 80% of wages in order for companies to retain staff at times when they [read more]
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury has warned that Airbus is potentially at risk of collapse due to the ongoing global crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Speak to French Radio station RTL said that the company must take the right measures to protect the business and if it didn’t then the [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has launched its first-ever Buy One Get One Free offer meaning you can take a friend for free this autumn. The offer is available on 1,600 routes across Ryanair’s network and valid for travel from 25th Septermber to 14th December 2020. But this offer is [read more]
The transfer of Airbus A380 MSN 272 from Station 40 to Station 35 yesterday marked the completion of the last ever Airbus A380 to be built. Airbus announced in 2019 that it was ending production of the Superjumbo after sales of the type slumped and airlines cancelling orders in favour [read more]
Thursday is expected to see a double depature for British Airways’ Boeing 747’s as two more of the type leave the fleet to head off to the scrapyard. G-BYGE, one of the youngest of BA’s 747s, is expected to finally depart from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) for the short flight to [read more]
A Boeing developed technology designed to combat COVID-19 onboard aircraft and allow easy sanitizing of the cabin and cockpit has been licenced to US company Healthe Inc who will use it to manufacture an easy to use cleaning wand for aircraft. The technology was designed under Boeings “Confident Travel Initiative” [read more]
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