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Ryanair Announces $200m Investment In London Luton With 2 New Based Aircraft

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline announced an investment of $200 million at London Luton airport with 2 new based aircraft (6 aircraft in total) for its winter 2018 schedule and added 6 new routes to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Cork and Malaga and more flights on its existing Vilnius route. Ryanair’s winter 2018 London Luton schedule will now deliver a total of 21 routes w...

Anticipation grows for ACE 18

Air Charter Expo - ACE 18, which takes place at London Biggin Hill Airport on 11th September, will showcase the best in corporate and business aviation. With many fixed wing and rotary aircraft already committed, the organisers are confident of approaching and beating the 29 aircraft static display from last year. This year the static display will feature one of the large...

Centrik takes London Oxford Airport to new certification heights

London Oxford Airport has adopted Centrik as its operational management system, playing an invaluable role in assisting the airport to join a select club of IS-BAH Stage II accredited support operations. The cloud-based operational management system makes it easy to evidence operational compliance to auditors and regulators – an instrumental factor in London Oxford Airport securing the ac...

Transfer Deadline Day sparks surge in private jet usage

Football’s transfer deadline day results in a mad dash for clubs to complete last-minute deals, ensuring their squads are strong enough to compete at the highest level, but it’s also a busy period for private jet charter operators, says Luxaviation UK. The role of a private jet charter operator is to fly the players as swiftly and comfortably as possible to their destination, meetin...

Design Q and “the best view in the sky”

Howard Guy, CEO of UK-based Design consultancy Design Q, smiles when asked “what were the biggest challenges?” The question relates to Design Q’s mission to create a whole new experience for seasoned and discerning travellers that is at once exhilarating, wondrous, and like nothing else on earth. Howard goes on to explain that Design Q have been working with the man...

Norwegian to operate latest Boeing 737 MAX aircraft from London Gatwick

Airline among the first carriers to operate Boeing’s newest aircraft type at Gatwick Airport 737 MAX to initially be operated on selected Nordic routes Norwegian is introducing its newest single-aisle aircraft at London Gatwick this summer to service selected short-haul flights to Europe. For the first time, the airline is operating the new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to and from Londo...

Norwegian to increase number of transatlantic flights from Ireland by over 35% next summer

Airline confirms summer 2019 schedule with new route and increases from Dublin and Shannon Flights from Cork Airport to Providence-Boston to return next summer Norwegian continues its growth in Ireland by announcing its new expanded 2019 summer schedule with 37% more weekly departures to the USA and Canada. Consumers can now book the airline’s lowest fares for travel to the US East...

easyJet passengers can now check-in luggage from home

easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has launched a partnership with home bag drop service AirPortr, giving passengers travelling from London Gatwick the option to check their luggage in online and then have it collected from their doorstep by friendly, professional drivers and taken directly to the airport. Research shows that over three quarters of travellers would prefer to be luggage fr...

TAG Global Training Contributes to Futures Day at Farnborough International Airshow 2018

TAG Global Training was delighted to participate at this year’s ADS Group’s Futures Day which took place on 20thJuly as part of the Farnborough International Airshow 2018. The ADS Group’s Futures Day is designed to stimulate and encourage young people between the ages of 11-21 into a career in the dynamic sectors of Aviation and Defence. Debbie Elliott, Training Man...

Boeing with Successful Farnborough Airshow, Announcing $100 Billion in Orders and Commitments

Multi-billion dollar orders booked for aerospace services and products Jointly presented strategic partnership with Embraer Announced collaboration with AI company SparkCognition Launched future travel and transport organization Boeing NeXt Unveiled the 2018 Commercial Market Outlook for air travel, cargo, services Increased STEM investment in Europe Boeing strengthened its...

Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 gets ticket to fly as first production engines arrive in Toulouse

The Rolls-Royce Trent 7000, which powers Airbus’s latest aircraft, the A330neo, has today received its ‘ticket to fly’ from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), with the first production engines also delivered to the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France. The Trent 7000 is the fourth Rolls-Royce engine to receive formal certification in just 12 months, following in the fo...

Qatar Executive First State-Of-The-Art Gulfstream G500 Jet at Farnborough International Airshow

Private jet division to receive 25 additional new aircraft by 2022 to accommodate increasing passenger demand Qatar Executive to open new dedicated offices in Shanghai and Moscow by the end of this year Qatar Executive, the private jet charter division of Qatar Airways Group, proudly unveiled its brand-new executive jet, the Gulfstream G500, on the opening day of Farnboroug...