Turkish Airlines has announced it will launch direct flights between London Stansted (STN/EGSS) and iGA Istanbul Airport form March next year boosting the connections to the Turkish gateway city to three London Airports. Türkiye’s flag carrier airline will fly direct between Stansted and Istanbul up to 14 times per week [read more]
Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines has added two new Turkish destinations from London Stansted (STN/EGSS) to its summer schedule. The first of the new routes launched on 21st of June 2025 when flights between London and Gaziantep got underway followed yesterday by a new route to Kayseri. Gaziantep, located in southeastern [read more]
The late may bank holiday is upon and UK airports are set for their busiest day of the year so far with not only a long weekend looming, but for many, its also school half-term. According to data from viation analytics firm Cirium, 12,185 flights are due to depart the UK over [read more]
A recently published report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) into an incident involving a Ryanair Boeing 737-Max8200 at London Stansted shows the pilots temporarily lost control of the aircraft during a go-around procedure, at one point descending so rapidly the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EWGPS) was triggered. [read more]
AJET, a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, has opened sales for tickets ahead of its first AJET flight later this month on the 31st March. Istanbul headquartered AJET is the new name for AnadoluJet which launched in 2008 as a low-cost airline to improve travel links to the Anatolia [read more]
Turkiye’s newest airline, Southwind Airlines, is launching flights from Antalya, Turkiye to 10 UK airports for Summer 2024 as it looks to expand its route map. Southwind Airline launched in 2022 to continue to connect Russian tourists with Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast and later that year it added flights to Germany [read more]
Leading UK holiday airline Jet2.com (LS/EXS) has announced it is adding two destinations in Morocco to its growing network of destinations together with Jet2 Holidays. Flights to Agadir and Marrakech will commence in the Winter 2024/25 season and continue through the Summer of 2025 from several UK airports. There will [read more]
Essex Police have confirmed they are attending an incident at Stansted Airport (STN/EGSS) after a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi (KQ100) was diverted there instead of its planned destination of London Heathrow. The Beoing 787 arrived at Stansted shortly before 4pm after being escorted by Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons [read more]
Manchester Airport Group (MAG) says it is expecting the February half-term to be one of the busiest periods it has had since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group says it is expecting around 1.5 million passengers to pass through Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) and London [read more]
Manchester Airport, the UK’s third-largest airport, has called on the UK government to simplify the coronavirus travel system as new figures reveal that UK air travel continues to be hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The airport wants a simpler two-tier travel system to be introduced which will remove the [read more]
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