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Thomas Cook will seek a delay to a key bondholders’ meeting on Wednesday as it tries to finalise a £1bn rescue package in a bid to prevent the UK’s oldest tour operator from collapsing. The collapse of Thomas Cook could leave thousands of holidays makers seeking alternative arrangements or having [read more]

Coffee that was spilt onto the Audio Communications Panel (ACP) caused smoke and fumes to appear in the cockpit on-board a Thomas Cook A330 aircraft (G-TCCF) mid-Atlantic. The report by the Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) said that the flight on 6th February 2019 was forced to divert to Shannon [read more]

London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) has enjoyed its busiest summer ever with 5.3 million passengers passing through the airport in August alone. The airport says that the most popular destinations included Malaga, Barcelona, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca and Tel-Aviv. Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said: “The summer period is always a [read more]

I had a lazy morning on September 11 2001, I was having a lay-in after a previous night at work and just watching the news in bed when suddenly, everything changed. A newsflash broke on BBC news that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. [read more]

Growing regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has announced that it is launching six new routes from UK airports in 2020 including its first route from Wales. The new routes are the latest to be announced under Loganair’s ‘Where next?’ programme, which is designed to expand the airline’s route network across the [read more]

Hundreds of British Airways flights have been cancelled today as the airlines pilots start a two day walkout in a dispute over pay and conditions. The strike began at midnight local time and over 1700 flights have already been cancelled as a result and British Airways is advising passengers not [read more]

Wizz Air’s UK subsidiary, Wizz Air UK (W9/WUK), is launching daily flights to Russia from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) from October 2019. The airline will fly daily to Moscow Vnukovo (VKO/UUWW) on a daily basis with flights leaving Luton at 06:50 and returning at 15:15. In addition, Wizz Air UK [read more]

Cardiff Airport CEO has said that she finds it “difficult to understand” why the UK Government has said that it will not devolve Air Passenger Duty (APD) to the Welsh Government. The UK Government confirmed it would not be devolving the power today despite a recommendation from the Welsh Office [read more]