London Gatwick Airport to close North Terminal
London Gatwick is to temporarily close its North Terminal and consolidate operations in its South Terminal, with flights only operating between 2pm and 10pm, from next month. The airport believes…
ALERT A temporary mortuary is being built at Birmingham Airport
A temporary mortuary site is being built at Birmingham Airport in preparation for an expected rise in coronavirus deaths, West Midlands Police have said. Work has begun on the mortuary…
Alaska Airlines is witnessing more than 80% drop in demand
Alaska Air Group’s ALK subsidiary Alaska Airlines plans to reduce capacity by 70% for April and May due to “historic and unprecedented” decline in demand as coronavirus concerns evolve. The…
More than 7,500 aircraft are currently stored due to coronavirus crisis
Around one third of the global commercial airline fleet is currently in storage as carriers seek to weather the coronavirus pandemic. In total, around 7,500 planes are now idle as…
Virgin Australia to make all Tigerair pilots redundant
Virgin Australia Managing Director Paul Scurrah said today that about 1000 of the 8000 workers being stood down will be made redundant. The 1000 figure includes all 220 Tigerair pilots…
BREAKING London City Airport is closing tonight
London City Airport temporarily suspends all flights. Here is the statement Following the Government’s latest instructions in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, we have made the difficult but necessary decision…
Virgin Australia asks for investigation into Qantas comments
Virgin Australia has written to Australia's competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), to complain about allegedly anti-competitive comments made by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Virgin MD Paul…
“As crew we’ve called the skies our home for so long.” Virgin Australia Supervisor’s emotional cabin announcement
Virgin Australia has posted a video on their Twitter of Cabin Supervisor Cassy making a final cabin announcement on a Virgin Australia service to Dunedin, New Zealand. In the emotional…
Virgin Australia slashes domestic capacity by 90%, grounds Tigerair
Virgin Australia announced today that it would slash domestic capacity by 90% and completely ground it's LCC Tigerair. The Tigerair grounding is effective immediately while Virgin's capacity reduction comes into…
Singapore Airlines to ground all fleet except 9 planes
Singapore Airlines will cut capacity by 96 per cent until the end of April. The decision comes following the further tightening of border controls around the world to stem the…
BREAKING Ryanair Group expects all of its flights to be grounded until the end of May
The Ryanair Group expects most of its flights to be grounded from Tuesday 24th March until the end of May, according to its CEO Michael O’Leary. The announcement comes today…
BREAKING Emirates and Etihad are suspending passenger flights with immediate effect (earlier than planned)
The UAE Government has made the decision to bring forward the date of suspension for all inbound, outbound, and transit flights. All aircraft that are currently outside the UAE will…
