According to sources close to the airline, Friday is when British Airways Cabin Crew will find out whether they are being retained on new contracts prompting an upsurge in those taking voluntary redundancy. British Airways plans to “fire and rehire” all of its staff, except Pilots which have already agreed [read more]
Aer Lingus (EI/EIN) has scheduled changes for Summer 2021 which sees more A330 routes being replaced by the Airbus A321neo. Aer Lingus sees the single-aisle airliner as the future of transatlantic travel offering a much more effecient flight compared to its bigger sibling. The Airbus A321neo LR is able to operate [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is scrapping its all-business class service from London City Airport to New York JFK with immediate effect. The iconic Speedbird 1 and Speedbird 2 flights (BAW1/2) were originally used by the Concorde service to New York but shortly after Concorde was retired the airline launched the new [read more]
US airframer Boeing has confirmed that it is to cease production of the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet with the last ever Boeing 747, a -8F model for UPS, expected to leave Seattle in 2022. We broke the news of the cancellation earlier in July but Boeing confirmed the news came [read more]
GoSkydive, the UK’s leading leading Tandem Skydiving centre, has announced that they have reopened and tandem skydiving has resumed at its base at Old Sarum airfield. Old Sarum closed to private General Aviation in 2019 but GoSkyDive has remained operating from the site operating its skydive experiences in accordance with [read more]
Unite, the union representing British Airways Cabin Crew, Ground Staff and Engineers has told its members that it believes it is British Airways’s intention to move ahead with its original “fire and rehire” plan. As a result, the Union has told its members that “The intention is to defend out [read more]
Jet2 (LS/EXS) has u-turned on its decision to keep flying holidaymakers to Spain after it removed it’s the quarantine section of its “worry free” promise. The airline had insisted it would continue flying to all parts of Spain putting passengers in the position of either canceling and losing their money [read more]
For many, the changes in travel advice and quarantine rules imposed on Spain this weekend have put holidays and travel in disarray and potentially out of pocket. There is no doubt that some will be forced to cancel their travel as a 14-day quarantine on return would be impossible but [read more]
UK tour operator TUI has confirmed it has cancelled all holidays to mainland Spain up to and including Sunday 9th August 2020. TUI had cancelled all flights Spain and the Canary Islands today but now says that customers with holidays in the Canary Islands will be able to travel as [read more]
UK holiday airline Jet2 has removed its “Worry-Free Guarantee” promise in order to keep flying holidaymakers to mainland Spain against Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advice. Rival holiday company Tui, which has a similar promise, announced yesterday that all its flights from mainland Spain and the Canary Islands were cancelled [read more]
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