easyJet took a £5m revenue impact and £10m in extra costs after a mystery saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos at London’s second biggest airport. The disruptions affected 82,000 easyJet customers as it cancelled over 400 of its flights. The airline said that booking levels for 2019 were encouraging, despite uncertainty around Brexit, and…
A man has been charged with flying a drone near London’s Heathrow airport. George Rusu, 38 will appear at Uxbridge magistrates court on Tuesday. He is charged with flying a “small unmanned aircraft without permission of air traffic control”, according to court documents. The incident came three days after Gatwick Airport reopened after three days…
Boeing delivered the first of ten 787 Dreamliners to WestJet, marking the start of the airline’s global expansion. Having long operated a fleet of Boeing single-aisle jets, WestJet will use the super-efficient, long-range 787-9 Dreamliner to profitably serve new international routes. This spring, WestJet will use the 787-9 – the longest-range Dreamliner that can fly…
A spokesman for the airport said the base closures will not mean flights will be stopped to the destinations, but will mean local flight and cabin crew won’t be based there. Despite the move, the carrier says there will be no cuts to current flight schedules. The bases due for closure are in Palma, Gran…
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has argued travellers can “continue to book with confidence” following the latest developments in negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union. The comments come after the European Commission published a ‘no-deal’ contingency action plan which could come into force in March next year. On transport, it includes a proposal which…
France’s prime minister Edouard Philippe says €50m (£44.3m) will be invested into French ports and airports to mitigate a hard Brexit. France activated its no-deal Brexit plans following UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s historic defeat in the British parliament earlier this week. On Tuesday, the parliament voted against the previous plan on the UK withdrawal from the European Union, backed…
A group of lucky Cathay Pacific customers have scored first-class seats at economy prices, in the second fare blunder by the airline this month. Tickets on trips from Hong Kong to Portugal were sold on the airline’s website for $1,512, instead of $16,000 usually charged for a similar journey. The carrier said it would honour…
Theresa May is preparing to immediately fly out the EU headquarters in “May Force One” if her Brexit plan ends up getting beaten down in Parliament. The Airbus A330-200MRTT is based at Brize Norton and could pick up the Prime Minister at London Heathrow to fly to Brussels.
Due to a strike by the security staff at the airport, Lufthansa flights to and from Frankfurt will be considerably impaired next Tuesday, 15 January. Security staff strike at Frankfurt airport now extended to Hamburg, Munich, Hanover, Bremen, Leipzig/Halle, Dresden and Erfurt airports in a series of coordinated industrial action, according to the Verdi union.…
A Singapore Airlines flight headed to London’s Heathrow Airport found it had an unintended passenger on board. Business-class passengers found themselves greeted by the avian stowaway about 12 hours into the flight. A typical Singapore-London flight takes about 14 hours. In a statement on Sunday (Jan 13), an SIA spokesman confirmed that a bird was…
Due to staffing issues associated with the partial shutdown of the federal government, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint and the ticketing counter in Terminal B at George Bush Intercontinental Airport closed at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, and will remain closed the rest of the day. Flights scheduled to depart from…
Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday to pick up fugitive left-wing militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after being convicted of murder in his home country. The development sets the stage for a climactic end to one of Italy’s longest-running efforts to bring a fugitive to justice. The…