The noisiest planes will face a trebling in charges to £9,000 per landing, although fewer than 1% of flights fall into this category. The airport hopes the move will provide more incentive for airlines to fly cleaner and quieter planes. Some fares should fall as Heathrow is proposing to give a £10 discount to the…
Gatwick to launch fund to boost internal UK flights if it wins contest with Heathrow to get an additional runway Gatwick has offered to create a £20m fund to cater for more domestic flights if it wins out over Heathrow. The two airports are in competition to get an additional runway with each showing off…
Raw TV has secured access to Heathrow Airport for a three-part documentary series for ITV. The Discovery-owned indie has landed 3 x 60-minute series Britain’s Busiest Airport: Heathrow which will follow staff from various departments as they work to keep the airport working smoothly. Full story
45 musicians of the Svetlanov State Symphony were taken off a plane at Heathrow and held for 10 hours in a waiting room after a British Airways pilot had called the police. The orchestra was on its way to Sao Paolo in Brazil and the flight became severely delayed. Reports from Russian media appears that…
Beginning on the 1st October, Emirates is launching a 2nd daily service from Dubai to Boston, on board a Boeing 777-300ER. The new service will arrive to Boston in the morning hours at 0810, whereas the original service arrives at 1400. Schedule from airlineroute.net @airlineroute EK239 DXB0250 – 0810BOS 77W D EK237 DXB0840 – 1400BOS 77W D…
Air Europa today began service on their leased 787s to New York JFK. The aircraft will alternate between flights and operate to JFK one day and the next to Montevideo. The aircraft; SP-LRF, will operate for Air Europa for a year. Air Europa will take delivery of 22 787s in the future, and could be…
The Finnish airline Finnair from the 17th April to the 23rd April is once again leasing a Boeing 787 aircraft from LOT Polish Airlines to use on its service from Helsinki to New York JFK. The 787 will be replacing the A330-300 during this period. Flight AY5 will depart Helsinki at 1410 and arrive to…
Two people have been killed in a light plane crash at a farmstay on New South Wales’ northern tablelands. (ABC News) Emergency services were called to the River Glen B&B Farmstay at Dundee about 10:30am on Sunday. The 51-year-old male pilot and his 55-year-old female passenger were the only people on board the plane and…
Munich Airport has adopted and deployed the Amadeus Airport Sequence Manager as part of the A-CDM initiatives that the airport has been implementing and pioneering since 2007.
Etihad Airways has appointed Othman Aleghfeli, a UAE national, as Area Manager Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from his current position as Assistant General Manager for the airline’s Abu Dhabi Hub.
Low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines is launching new flights between London Gatwick and Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen, and onto destinations across Turkey and beyond as well as to North Cyprus from May 1st.
Manchester Airport has broken its all-time passenger record, with 22.32 million people flying through the airport in the last financial year. The figure is the highest in its 77-year history, beating the previous 12 month record set in July 2006 of 22.26 million. With 22.3 million passengers per year, Manchester is the UK’s third largest…