Travelling during the Easter rush can be pretty stressful, but the UK's hub airport has just announced a new initiative to entertain passengers while they wait.
Passengers at Heathrow Airport this Easter can expect to hear poetry from former children’s laureate Michael Rosen, performance poet Laura Dockrill, and authors Danny Wallace and MG Leonard broadcast via overhead speakers...
Football fans will be given the opportunity to travel to Euro 2016 in style this summer for less than a Ryanair flight.
Fans can fly in their own private aircraft from £333 per person, departing from London Ashford Airport in Lydd and enjoying stress-free, swift check-in and Champagne and sandwiches on board.
The bespoke luxury travel package for England’...
UK safety investigators have called for a raft of new Europe-wide regulations to be introduced covering the operation of offshore transportation helicopters in the wake of a fatal accident off the north coast of Scotland.
The recommendations are contained in the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch’s final report into the 23 August 2013 crash of a CHC Scotia-operated Airbus Helicopters A...
UK airports had their busiest ever summer last year, collectively handling 78m passengers, and the indicators are that 2015 as a whole was the busiest year on record. London City Airport certainly had a record-breaking year, with 18 per cent growth in passengers to 4.3m.
More people than ever are taking to the skies and generating wealth for the UK economy in doing so – passengers travell...
A badger on an airport runway forced a passenger plane to abort its landing.
The flight from Gatwick to Newquay was an estimated 300ft (90m) off the ground when the wild animal was spotted.
Passenger Pete Atkinson said there was a tense five-minute gap between the aircraft climbing sharply away from the runway and the pilot announcing the badger's presence.
The airport said it was a c...
This is the huge dent left in the nose of a passenger jet after a bird struck the plane as it landed at Heathrow Airport.
The EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 was approaching the runway following a flight from Cairo when it collided with the bird, leaving behind blood stains and feathers.
The aircraft, registration SU-GDZ, which had 71 passengers on board managed to land safely...
Scientists develop ice-repellent coating for airplanes and windshields – Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a spray-on coating that can make theice slide off from a large amount of commercial equipment like airplanes and car windshields, with nothing but the force of gravity.
The new finding could have major implications in industries like energy, shippin...
A passenger delayed a flight by an hour by opening an emergency exit of a Boeing 737 just before take-off.
He was on a domestic flight with China Southern Airlines when the incident occurred, the People's Daily Online reports.
The plane had to stay at Chengdu Shuangliu airport while the issue was resolved.
The flight, bound for Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in north-west Ch...
Heathrow Airport has today announced that Lord Paul Deighton will succeed Sir Nigel Rudd as chairman of the board when he steps down later this year.
Lord Deighton will guide Heathrow through its next phase of development, supporting Heathrow’s vision of giving passengers the best airport service in the world and preparing for the government’s decision on airport expansion.
Follo...
Portuguese national Louis Pedro Verdasca dos Santos Costa, 38, has been charged over the incident at Britain's biggest airport on Saturday.
A major security alert was sparked at Heathrow Airport after an intruder broke through a security cordon, climbed aboard an empty British Airways 747 airliner and locked himself inside the bomb-proof cockpit.
Police were alerted shortly after 11.30am...
easyJet has signed a new long-term distribution agreement with Sabre Corporation. The agreement gives corporate travel agencies across Europe continued access to easyJet fares through the Sabre GDS.
Around 20 percent of easyJet’s passengers travel for business. The airline’s agreement with Sabre helps easyJet continue serving this important corporate segment.
“easyJet made...
A £1bn programme to "transform" Manchester Airport has been approved.
The 10-year plan includes doubling the size of Terminal 2, expanding self-service check-in facilities and building a larger security hall.
Manchester City Council also approved plans to demolish Terminal 1 and build a ramp from an M56 slip road to give access to a new departures forecourt.
The work, whic...
