Weston Air Festival, the popular free airshow held at Weston Super Mare will not return in 2023 after the county council said it could not afford the subsidy needed to run the show. The event needs a subsidy of £135,000 which North Somerset Council said it could not justify during [read more]
Flights between the 21st December and 4th January will remain 14% lower than pre-pandemic levels according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirum with 30,979 flights set to depart UK airports. easyJet (U2/EZY) is set to rank top of the Christmas flights with 5,928 flights departing over the festive period [read more]
Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) has confirmed it is increasing its Doha (DOH/OTHH) to Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) service to ten flights per week from February 2023. The service is operated by a Boeing 787-8 aircraft and will add further connectivity from Scotland’s busiest airport to the rest of the world via Doha. Kate [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) has confirmed its plans to boost its operations at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) for summer next year including a second Embraer E145 regional jet based at the northern hub. The expansion plans include a double-daily flight to Aberdeen with a daily onward flight to Oslo, giving Newcastle passengers flight [read more]
US airframer Boeing has been awarded a firm order for 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners with the option to purchase a further 100 in an order which sets the US record for the type. The order also includes 100 Boeing 737 Max single-aisle airlines which include the conversion of 44 previous [read more]
The final Boeing 747 to ever be made has rolled out of the Everett plant in Washington state this morning marking the end of more than 50 years of continuous production. The Boeing 747-8F is the 1,574th Boeing 747 to be built and the freighter aircraft will be delivered to [read more]
Unions representing Border Force staff have said that their members will strike for 8 days between the 23rd December and 31st December potentially causing chaos at UK airports. The PCS Union says border force strike staff will strike at Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff airports during that period. In [read more]
Airbus has conceded that is unlikely to meet its target of 700 commercial aircraft deliveries in 2022 although it does not expect this to be “materially less” than the target. November saw 68 airliner deliveries bringing the total deliveries in 2022 to 563 aircraft excluding the two Aeroflot A350’s which [read more]
Swiss air rescue service REGA has ordered a second batch of five-bladed Airbus H145 helicopters for its mountain bases as it seeks to replace its older AW109SP helicopters. The twelve aircraft order means that REGA will operate an all-Airbus fleet with 21 five-bladed Airbus H145s in its inventory. REGA will [read more]
Northrop Grumman unveiled the B-21 Raider, named after the Dolittle raids in Japan, which is designed to deliver both conventional and nuclear weapons in a system unmatched by any other bomber today. The 6th Generation bomber has an unmatched range and a radar signature that makes it almost impossible to [read more]
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