With more space now being available at Heathrow Terminal 1, ‘Star Alliance’ is preparing to implement the next stage of its ‘Move under one Roof’ (MuoR) strategy, which will see current Terminal 2 carriers Austrian, […]
ABTA Chief Executive Mark Tanzer has written to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, urging him to address five key industry issues in his next budget. High on his list is the withdrawal […]
April 6: A dramatic chase of a single-engine Cessna 172 by F-16s from the Minnesota Air National Guard ended when the pilot made an emergency landing on Highway 60 in Ellsinore, Missouri, according to ABC […]
March 25: British Airways (BA) became the first commercial airline to introduce the onboard Microwave Landing System (MLS), which increases the safe landing rate during periods of low visibility at Heathrow by more than 20%. […]
Solihull Council´s planning committee has approved plans to extend Birmingham International Airport´s runway by 400m to cope with more long-haul flights, allowing larger aircraft and non-stop flights to the US west coast and the Far […]
In a customer satisfaction survey involving 9,000 people, carried out between October and November 2008, Which Holiday magazine has BAA’s two principal airports at Heathrow and Gatwick as ‘worst in the UK’. Finishing plumb last […]
In an open letter to all Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), Alexander ter Kuile, Secretary General of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), has warned about the economic crisis now affecting aviation and its […]
The Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon, has appointed Dame Deirdre Hutton CBE as Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) after an open competition. She is the first woman appointed to the post […]
Ryanair will open a new base at Memmingen Airport, approximately 62 miles (100km) from Munich, as it introduces its first connections into the southern German region of Bavaria. It claims in a statement that new […]
European regulators have proposed ending the stringent ‘use it or lose it’ slot-use requirement, easing pressure on airlines during the economic crisis. Current slot rules require an airline to operate its slots on 80% of […]
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