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Private Jets: Who, What, When, Where and How?

There are two distinct images of private jet travel. One is the view we see through Pages Six and TMZ with the Kardashians or viewing the Rich Kids of Instagram. It shows a world filled with expensive toys, Dom, nannies and entourages. The other is presented by the industry, which portrays the private jet as an efficiency tool, providing access to remote airports not well served by commercial flig...

Flybe boss primes airline for take-off

When Saad Hammad took the controls at Flybe almost three years ago, he knew he was in for a challenge at the ailing regional airline. But no amount of due diligence could have prepared the former easyJet executive for the crisis he faced when he touched down. “Running out of cash, loss-making, in disarray,” is how he describes Flybe’s predicament then. Floated at 295p a share...

Farnborough Air Show Pilots To Face Tougher Restrictions

Air display pilots performing at this year’s Farnborough air show are set to face tougher restrictions on aerobatic performances as a result of new regulations imposed following the crash at the Shoreham air show last August. The show’s airspace has had to be radically re-designed, reducing the amount of airspace available to perform high-energy maneuvers. Two aerobatic flying areas...

Manchester flight delayed after woman 'punched pilot in face'

A flight was delayed after a woman allegedly punched an easyJet pilot in the face at Manchester airport. Police were called to the airport around 2.20pm on Wednesday after a disturbance on a flight due to leave for Paphos in Cyprus. A 25-year-old woman was asked to leave the flight due to her behaviour. While being escorted from the aircraft by flight attendants the woman allegedly assaulted...

Rolls-Royce despatches first set of engines as part of largest ever order from Emirates

Rolls-Royce has despatched the first ‘shipset’ of four engines as part of its largest ever order, for Emirates. The Trent 900 engines left the Rolls-Royce site at Derby, UK, where they were assembled, for Airbus in Toulouse, France, where they will be fitted to an A380 aircraft. Rolls-Royce is providing Trent 900 engines and TotalCare® service for 50 Emirates A380...

New mayor removes obstacle from London City Airport’s expansion path

London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, has dropped an objection raised by his predecessor, Boris Johnson, to the planned expansion of London City Airport (LCY). The airport is located on a physically constrained site in the capital’s old Docklands district. Its owners have been trying for some time to expand it through a £300 million ($435 million) plan that would enlarge the termina...

Boost for JETS MRO as Dassault extends authorised service centre approval

JETS Biggin Hill has gained a new five-year extension approval as a Dassault authorised service centre for the Falcon 900 and 2000 business jets series.The company is currently expanding their maintenance capability. Growing market demand for minimum down-time for hard-working business jet aircraft has also enabled JETS to introduce a seven-day a week, 12 hours per day shift pattern for the eng...

Aviation experts baffled after British Airways A380 lands at Heathrow with a SQUARE tyre

An astonishing picture has emerged of a square-shaped tyre on a British Airways A380 that touched down at London's Heathrow Airport. Aviation experts have been left baffled by the misshapen deflated wheel, which was part of the landing gear on a flight that arrived from Hong Kong on Friday. The Civil Aviation Authority described the incident as 'curious', a serving pilot admitted...

EasyJet braced for financial blow from Brussels attacks

EASYJET is expected to take a hit from this year’s spate of terrorist attacks after a fall in bookings led to “very tough” conditions for airlines. Analyst Wyn Ellis, of Numis, believes the bombings in Brussels, as well as renewed violence in Egypt, will have cost easyJet around £45m in the first half of its financial year. Since the attacks in Belgium, which left...

UK parliamentary committee backs Heathrow expansion

An influential UK parliamentary body has backed recommendations that London Heathrow Airport should be the site for much-needed extra runway capacity in South East England. The UK government is once again delaying a decision on where to site the new runway. A two-year investigation by an independent body, the Davies Commission, recommended last year that a third runway at Heathrow was the best...

Take the kids to … the National Museum of Flight, Scotland

In a nutshell Stretching across the former East Fortune airfield, this feels less like a museum and more like a full day out. The jet black hangar housing Scotland’s supersonic retiree, the G-BOAA Concorde, sticks out like a sore thumb against the rolling fields, but it is home to a real jet-age 1970s experience. Climbing the steps and boarding Concorde still gives a buzz. Kids will make st...

EasyJet reports passenger boost as Ryanair chases UK dominance

Budget airline easyJet has reported a 6.1pc increase in passenger numbers but a slip in the number of occupied seats on its flights. The FTSE 100 airline flew 6.37 million customers last month, up from 6 million in April 2015. EasyJet’s load factor - an industry measure of the percentage of seats that were actually occupied - fell from 90.8pc a year ago to 90.4pc last month. The res...