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A group led by Manchester Airports Group, Ryanair, easyJet, TUI UK and Virgin Atlantic are left considering their options after failing to win a judicial review of the UK Governments coronavirus traffic light travel system. Acknowledging that the group did have grounds for a judicial review but the judges of [read more]

Ryanair (FR/RYR) has outlined its planned recovery schedule for Manchester (MAN/EGCC) and Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) airports. As air travel begins to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of restrictions in England the airline hopes to be able to deliver a significant increase in its operations. Manchester Airport will see [read more]

The fourth aircraft for Airbus’ Transport fleet took flight from Toulouse yesterday (20th July) for its maiden flight and preparation for entry into service. BelugaXL No4 is the latest oversized transport aircraft to join Airbus Transport International (ATI) to move components such and wings and fuselage sections from Airbus sites [read more]

Airbus has launched a new cloud-based pilot training service for recurrent and initial type rating training for its A320 family of aircraft. The Mobile Airbus Training Experience (MATe) gives subscribers access to a wealth of training materials including a 3D interactive virtual cockpit. The system has been built on the [read more]

Five more airlines are set to move to Manchester Airport’s (MAN/EGCC) newly revamped Terminal 2 from next week. TUI and Jet2 are already using the facility but on Saturday they wer joined by Singapore Airlines. Tuesday will see Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways and Brussels airlines will start flying from Terminal [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]

Industrial action by Air Traffic Controllers at Highland and Island Airports (HIAL) will mean that leading regional airliner Loganair (LM/LOG) will not be able to operate flights to some of its airports. The strike on 29th July will affect flights to Inverness, Sumburgh, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Benbecula and Dundee. Loganair will [read more]