Low cost US carrier JetBlue has launched its transatlantic service between New York and London Heathrow with the inaugural Flight earlier today. The daily service is being operated by an Airbus A321neo equipped with JetBlue’s new transatlantic Mint suites and cabin. JetBlue is expected to add a Boston service from [read more]
The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) has appointed David Edwards as its new chief executive replacing Sir Brian Sturridge who is stepping down from the role. Mr Edwards was Chief Executive of the Air Charter Association and led that organisation through a significant period of change and has also been vice-president [read more]
Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has announced it is launching a new service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Montego Bay, Jamaica later this year. The three-times-per-week service will begin on the 6th November 2021 with tickets going on sale from the 16th August. Virgin Atlantic has recently resumed its Barbados service from [read more]
Figures for July 2021 show that Airbus delivered 47 aircraft to 32 customers for the period and had a net order gain of just two aircraft. 45 of those aircraft were single-aisle airliners from the A320 family to airlines including Wizz Air, Bamboo and Air Austral. The remaining two deliveries [read more]
The reported collapse of the planned Amazon Prime Air drone delivery service in the UK has apparently prompted 100’s of job losses within the team responsible for it. According to Wired, the future of the whole project its uncertain after anonymous insiders told the online tech magazine that the team [read more]
Sources close to Wizz Air UK have said that the Airline is set to delay its planned base launch at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) until 2022. In a statement the airline said: “As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 related travel restrictions, and ever changing quarantine measures in place across the [read more]
US president Joe Biden has hinted that the US could start to re-open international air travel for countries that have made good progress in their vaccination programmes “within days”. Speaking in Germany, the President made the comments after official studies from the US Department of Defense, and Harvard University concluded [read more]
Figures released by European airframer, Airbus, has shown that it continued its rise in aircraft deliveries in June 2021. The month saw 77 aircraft delivered to 44 customers, up from 50 in the previous month. Deliveries included 62 single-aisle airliners from the A320 family, 3 A330, 11 A350 and 1 [read more]
The 50th Anniversary of the RAFs Puma Helicopter fleet is being marked with a fly past around the UK on Wednesday 7th July. The formation is due to depart RAF Benson at 10am before marking its way up the eastern side of England to RAF Scampton. After a short break [read more]
In a stark demonstration of what a difference a year makes, Ryanair’s latest figures show it carried 5.3 million passengers in June 2021 compared to just 0.4 million in June 2020. The results give the airline a load factor of 72% for the 38,000+ flights it operated across all its [read more]
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