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Exclusive: Birmingham Airport Loses Out to Manchester on China Flights

Birmingham Airport has lost out to Manchester Airport in securing direct scheduled flights to China, ITV News Central has learned. The Chinese President will announce the deal today. Birmingham Airport has been talking to Hainan Airlines for some time about starting a scheduled service but the airline has decided to go to Manchester. The news comes after the Chancellor George Osborne...

British Airways Launches Miami Superjumbo A380 Service

This weekend British Airways will begin flying its new double decker Airbus A380 between Miami and London. The inaugural flight BA209 will touch down at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Oct. 25 and will depart as the BA208 the same evening. The superjumbo A380 is the largest and grandest aircraft in British Airways’ fleet. The new aircraft spans two full decks and can accommodate up...

NATS installs electronic flight strips at Newcastle

Newcastle International Airport has become the latest UK airport to transition to using state-of-the-art electronic flight progress strips. Moving from traditional paper to electronic flight strips will offer major efficiency benefits for Newcastle, allowing for the seamless sharing of operational data across the entire airport. Aircraft can now be given departure clearances electronically,...

Is This Plane Crazy? Man Who Lives near Busy Airport Complains to Them About Noise Twice a Day

A man who lives near one of the country's busiest airports complained 729 times about noise in just one year. It means he logged a grievance about the constant din of jet engines, on average twice a day. His dissatisfaction took the total number of noise complaints to 1,509 in 2013/14. The previous year, there were 773. This year, 2014/15, there have been 860 complaints....

British Airways launches long-haul services from Heathrow Terminal 3

British Airways will be offering a warm welcome to even more customers in a new look Heathrow Terminal 3 with the start of long-haul flights. A new check-in area has been created for customers during the last few months including a dedicated area for premium customers to use. The new additions to British Airways’ Terminal 3 schedule will include flights to Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas, De...

Birmingham-Bound Monarch Holiday Flight Intercepted by Fighter Jet

Passengers have told of their panic after a Monarch Airlines holiday flight travelling from Madeira, Portugal, to Birmingham was intercepted by a French fighter jet. The fighter jet flew so close to the plane, passengers said they could see the pilot in the other cockpit. The Monarch flight ZB983 reportedly lost communications over French airspace, and the jet was sent to inte...

Oriens Aviation adds Bob Berry as advisor

Biggin Hill based Oriens Aviation has added Bob Berry as an advisor. Oriens Aviation became a Pilatus distributor in April 2015, and ordered three PC-12s Brenninkmeyer says he was tempted to buy the Bournemouth Distributorship from Berry back in 2012 but the timing was wrong. Now he is starting afresh with Oriens Aviation but with Bob Berry as an advisor to the Oriens board. “Edwi...

You shall not pass - UK firms develop drone-freezing ray

Three British companies have created a device to deter drones from entering sensitive areas by freezing them in mid-flight. The Anti-UAV Defense System (Auds) works by covertly jamming a drone's signal, making it unresponsive. After this disruption, the operator is likely to retrieve the drone believing that it has malfunctioned. The system joins a host of recently announced techn...

Volumes growth of 1.6% in the last 12 months at Heathrow

Cargo volumes at Heathrow Airport have grown 1.6 per cent over the past 12 months fuelled by rises to emerging markets. The airport says airfreight to Mexico has increased by 36 per cent, to Turkey 25 per cent, to Brazil 13 per cent and to India five per cent. But in September, Heathrow saw a fall and handled 119,091 tonnes, which was down 4.4 per cent on the same month last y...

Queen's airfield is not safe for planes, secret MoD files show

RAF Northolt, London, which is used by the Queen is unsafe aviation report reveals The VIP airfield used by the Queen and Prime Minister is unsafe, according to a classified Ministry of Defence report obtained by the Telegraph. Dangers to “existing operations” at RAF Northolt, London, are so serious it “could not be licensed in its current form” by the aviation a...

British Airways business class-only flight allows you to beat the queues

Business-class only flights have, like most things, experienced the highs and the lows. Ten years ago several carriers emerged offering passengers travelling from European to American hubs low-cost business class comfort. Sadly the recession prevented Eos, MaxJet and Silverjet – which also briefly flew from London to Dubai – from really taking flight. In recent years, Hong Kon...

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell hits out at 'lying' aviation officials over third runway

Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has lashed out at 'lying' aviation officials at a rally against a third runway at Heathrow Airport, saying 'poisoned' air is killing residents in the area. Addressing hundreds of people gathered in London's Parliament Square today, Mr McDonnell, 64, declared the aviation industry has 'consistently lied' about expanding th...