The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is today issuing a landmark package of measures to support pilots and air traffic controllers with an HIV diagnosis to continue in their careers. Working with the Terence Higgins Trust, the CAA’s new guidance details how flight crew and controllers will be medically assessed to [read more]
London Luton Airport (LTN/EGNT) has said that it managed to provide a “smooth travel experience” for customers during a half-term period which saw over 1.2 million passengers using the terminal. Luton Airport says that despite the sudden increase, average waiting times for security were around 10 minutes and 99% of [read more]
The latest incarnation of the Airbus A321, the XLR has carried out its first flight from Airbus’ final assembly line at Hamburg-Finkenwerder airport. Getting airborne just after 11am (CEST) MSN11000 flew for 4 hours and 25 minutes testing the basic handling of the aircraft and flight envelope protection systems at [read more]
European airframer Airbus is preparing the first Airbus A321XLR aircraft for its first flight which is expected to take place on Wednesday 15th June. Depending on the weather, the aircraft, which carries the serial number MSN1100, is expected to perform its first test flight from Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport where the final [read more]
The European Cockpit Association has said asking pilots to fly when fatigued is “like handing the car keys to a drunk driver,” after a video emerged of Wizz Air chief executive Jozsef Varadi asking staff “to go the extra mile” when tired. In a post on social media site Twitter, [read more]
European airframer Airbus says it has delivered 47 aircraft during May 2022 to a total of 27 customers worldwide including easyJet and Wizz Air UK. In total Airbus delivered 4 Airbus A220 family and 37 A320neo family aircraft from, its narrowbody catalogue and From its wide-body range, it delivered 3 [read more]
Chris Woodroofe has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) and will take up the post on the 15th of June. Mr Woodroofe has previously been the Chief Operating Officer at London Gatwick and joins Manchester Airport from his current role at Chevron Traffic Management. He [read more]
Uk travel agents are finding a large number of calls to their contact centres are from passengers with summer bookings who are worried following the half-term chaos that has seen hundreds of flights and holidays cancelled. Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership, said that her company had [read more]
Thursday 2nd June saw a 70 aircraft flypast over London to mark the beginning of Her Majesty the Queens Platinum Jubilee weekend. Whilst all eyes were on London, our man Ryan Lim was at RAF Coningsby where many of the aircraft that took part departed from including the Battle of [read more]
In a release that somewhat puts into context the recent surge in air travel that has led to scenes of queues and cancellations across the UK, Ryanair’s latest figures show it carried 13.6 million more people in May this year, than it did last year. Massive rises arent unexpected, after [read more]
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