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Loganair has a charity partnership with CHAS, Scotland’s only children’s palliative care charity and currently provides free flight’s to CHAS children and staff to support the charities efforts. As a gift to CHAS children and their families this Easter,

Loganair gives CHAS children an air experience

07/04/2022 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Children under the care of CHAS, Scotland’s only child palliative care charity, have been treated to an eggcellent air experience thanks to Loganair (LM/LOG). The children and their families were taken on a special flight from Glasgow Airport around the Scottish highlands and islands. Loganair’s very own Easter bunny kicked [read more]

easyJet Covid woes continue as airline cancels more flights

06/04/2022 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

UK low-cost airline easyJet (U2/EZY) has been forced to cancel more flights as it continues to struggle with staff absences. The airline is facing further disruption due to not being able to reach crew safety levels on flights as staff are off with Covid. easyJet cancelled hundreds of flights over [read more]

A TUI 757 gets airborne from Bristol Airport (Image: UK Aviation Media)

Bristol’s congestion charge could be bad for Bristol Airport

04/04/2022 2 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

When it comes to Bristol’s congestion, which comes into force later this year, it really is a tale of two airports as the boundaries mean it will be bad news for Bristol Airport, but potentially great news for Cardiff Airport across the river. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) lies outside of the [read more]

Airbus & Northrop Grumman team up for NATO surveillance concepts

03/04/2022 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Airbus Defence and Northrop Grumman will, along with seven other industry companies, work together to develop the future of NATO’s surveillance and control systems. Under the partnership of Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations (ASPAARO) the companies, including BAE Systems in the UK, will perform assessments of fully [read more]

Light aircraft crashes into empty flats in Oxfordshire

02/04/2022 < 1 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

A light aircraft has crashed into a block of flats near Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire today with witnesses describing the pilot as having “bailed out” shortly before the crash. Thames Valley Police confirmed the incident occurred around 12:00hrs and that the pilot had been taken to hospital but did not [read more]

Dublin Airports appoints Atkins to Deliver Buildings & Terminals Work

01/04/2022 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Dublin Airports Authority (daa) has appointed Atkins as the multi-disciplinary consultant for future improvements and upgrades to terminals at Dublin and Cork airports. The appointment comes as daa looks to the future and plans to invest significantly in the terminals and aircraft piers at the two airports. Ultan McCloskey, Director [read more]

Ryanair opens Summer base at Newcastle

31/03/2022 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has opened its two aircraft summer base at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) bringing 10 new routes and 60 directly-employed jobs to the North-East. The new base will see Ryanair fly a total of 19 routes from Newcastle and up to 130 flights per week. New routes [read more]

British Airways Airbus A380-800 G-XLEC (Image: Max Thrust Digital)

IT woes hit British Airways, again!

31/03/2022 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

IT problems have once again struck ‘Britain’s favourite airline’ British Airways (BA/BAW) leaving hundreds of passengers stranded and delayed yesterday. The global outage for the airline is the second major one this year leaving many questioning whether British Airways has made bad decisions on its IT infrastructure Airlines use IT [read more]

Newton Flight Academy opens in Glasgow

29/03/2022 3 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

A new state-of-the-art Newton Flight Academy has opened its doors at the Glasgow Science Centre, which is the first one in the UK. Newton Flight Academies are designed to provide unique and high-quality learning experiences and secondary pupils using the centre will cover themes including space, biofuels, and advanced materials [read more]

Airbus flies A380 with 100% sustainable fuel

28/03/2022 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Airbus has flown an Airbus A380 for the first time using 100% fully Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The aircraft used in the test flight was the original A380 test aircraft, MSN1, known as the Future Tech Testbed, and it carried out a three-hour flight from Toulouse Blagnac Airport. A total [read more]