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Monarch Engineering calls in administrators

04/01/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

Monarch Aircraft Engineering Ltd (MAEL) has called in administrators leaving 250 staff facing redundancy. The Engineering firm broke away from Monarch when the group collapsed and carried out work for third parties. The company completed a restructuring in October last year but many customers had already sought alternative companies to [read more]

A Smartlynx Airbus operating for Thomas Cook at Cardiff Airport

Thomas Cook increases Cardiff Capacity with leased A321

04/01/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is increasing its summer capacity at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) by using an Airbus A321 aircraft for Summer 2019. The Airbus A321 is the stretched variant of the A320 that normally operates from the airport but it still isnt a Thomas Cook aircraft. Like the A320, the A321 [read more]

CFM LEAP-1A powered A319 gets joint certification

03/01/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

The CFM LEAP-1A powered Airbus A319 airliner achieved joint certification from both European and US aviation authorities late in December 2018. The certification from the US FAA and European EASA airworthiness authorities means that all three A320 family aircraft – the A319neo, A320neo and A321neo – are certified by the [read more]

New Year, New Ryanair Strikes

03/01/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Cabin Crew at Ryanair’s Spanish bases are set to carry out three 24 hour strikes this month over their working conditions and what they say is a failure by the Irish budget airline to comply with local laws. The two unions representing the cabin crews, USO and Sitcpla, has said [read more]

Easyjet A320 neo at Bristol Airport (Image: UK Aviation Media)

These are the airlines offering massive New Year Sales

03/01/2019 2 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

As the new year begins, so do the January sales but rather than picking up that new scarf or dress, why not pick up a bargain flight. Here is our round up of the very best New Year sales from the UK airports. Norwegian Norwegian.com is offering flights to the [read more]

WOW Air to move flights to Stansted from Spring 2019

01/01/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Icelandic low-cost airline WOW Air (WW/WOW) is to move all flights from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to London Stansted (STN/EGSS) from the end of March 2019. The move will mean anyone who has booked the daily flight from Gatwick to Reykjavik (KEF/BIKF) after that date from Gatwick will have their flight [read more]

British Airways welcomes in the new year in 45 languages

British Airways says Happy New Year, in 45 Languages

29/12/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

British Airways (BA/BAW) will be welcoming in the 2019 with thousands of passengers who will either be in the airport, or on a flight as the clock strikes midnight and as a result, they will be welcoming in the the New Year in 45 languages. British Airways says 2000 of [read more]

Scandinavian adds new destination from Manchester

28/12/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Scandinavian Airlines (SK/SAS) has announced a new addition to its list of destinations from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for Summer 2019. The airline will now fly direct to gthe Danish city of Aarhus from the 1st April 2019 and will operate 3 times weekly (SK1538/SK1537) using a Cityjet Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft. [read more]

Vinci Airports to buy controlling stake in Gatwick Airport

27/12/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

French Airport operator Vinci Airports is to buy a controlling stake in London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK), the UK’s second busiest airport. Vinci Airpors, which operates several airports around the world including Lyon in France, Faro in Portugal and Santiago in Chile, will take a 50.01% stake in the London Airport [read more]

Norwegian in good shape for 2019

27/12/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Low-cost airline Norwegian.com is looking on good financial shape going into 2019 thanks to a deal agreed with Rolls-Royce. The airline had been affected by the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 problems that grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners fitted with the Rolls-Royce variant. In a year end statement the airline said it had [read more]