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Ryanair to fly from London Southend Airport in 2019. Ryanair will begin operating flights from Southend next year. The airline said it will base three planes at the airport from April and fly 13 routes to eight countries, including Spain and Greece. More than 55 flights a week will see Ryanair carry an estimated one million passengers per year. Southend will be the fourteenth […]
Airbus may end up with a significant new customer as Ryanair looks to beef up a newly acquired airline unit that uses planes from the European manufacturer. Ryanair, which previously operated only Boeing aircraft, will expand the fleet at Austria’s LaudaMotion to as many as 50 A320s over four years. The narrow-body model could eventually account for 20 per cent of […]
Ryanair has said its issues with pilot staffing have stabilised, with would-be Ryanair pilots ‘queueing up’ to join after the company decided to recognise unions and offer direct contracts. Along with direct employment contracts for new joiners, plus agreements to recognise unions in some countries, Ryanair has also dropped the cost of some training, known as a type rating, ordered […]
easyJet has said it will cut the cost of training for a small number of pilots as part of a drive to attract a more diverse range of people to fly its planes. The article suggests that flight schools and airlines are moving to sponsor more courses, or cut the cost of training, amidst a global shortage […]
Norwegian Air International is continuing with its plans for a Dublin Airport base despite announcing that it would cut services from Cork and Shannon later this year. The carrier confirmed earlier this week that low demand prompted it to cut its services from Cork and Shannon airports to Providence, Rhode Island, from October to March 2019. […]
LaudaMotion, the latest venture by aviation entrepreneur Niki Lauda, is to open a Berlin Tegel base on June 1, 2018 and launch flights to 17 destinations from the German capital. It will operate services to Barcelona, Brindisi, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Malaga, Milan Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Pula, Rhodes, Rijeka and Tenerife. Four aircraft will be based […]
TravelMole writes that Ryanair has started selling seats on its new Austrian airline partner Laudamotion’s summer flights. The airline will fly from nine cities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland this summer. It will have four aircraft based in Vienna, four in Berlin Tegel, six in Dusseldorf and one each in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, and two […]
London City Airport had its busiest week ever as the Docklands hub, ‘traditionally a favourite for business flyers, was boosted by increasing numbers of holidaymakers’, writes Standard Online. A total of 101,336 customers either departed from or arrived at the airport in the week to March 25, on 1,525 flights. That is two per cent higher […]
Following a press flight with its new chief executive, easyJet made several announcements. The Times and Buying Business Travel write that easyJet ‘will strike deals’ with budget long-haul carriers on routes to the United States, Caribbean and the Middle East as part of a ‘long-haul price war with British Airways.’ The airline said yesterday that the deals would […]
Business Traveller Online writes that Air France subsidiary Joon has launched the first of six long-haul services for this summer, with daily flights to the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The route is the first to be served by the carrier’s refurbished A340 aircraft. Joon will also launch long-haul flights to Mumbai in June, and ahead of this it will start […]
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