Munich Airport has announced the post-Covid return of All Nippon Airways (ANA), which is "resuming its nonstop connection from Munich to Tokyo's city-near Haneda Airport". The Bavarian regional capital is to be ANA's "only year-round destination in Europe to be...
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Ryanair widens summer options from Knock Airport
Ryanair said it has launched its "biggest ever Knock schedule" with a flight from the west of Ireland airport to Lanzarote. "This summer, Ryanair will operate over 120 weekly flights to/from Ireland West Airport Knock driving invaluable inbound tourism and offering...
Loganair gets 30 more weekly slots at London Heathrow
UK’s largest regional airline Loganiar has today announced that it is to expand at London Heathrow after getting 30 additional pairs of slots each week under a lease arrangement with British Airways. The deal, which takes effect in May 2023, will enable Loganair "to...
Belfast International says Ryanair returning with airport base
Belfast International has announced the return of Dublin-headquartered low-cost carrier Ryanair with a two-aircraft base at the airport. The airline is to operate over 140 flights a week to 16 routes "across GB and Europe", with Budapest, Milan, Barcelona, Paris,...
Kerry Airport gets new France-bound flights
French carrier Chalair is to operate two new routes to France from Kerry in Ireland's south-west. The flights, to Brest and Quimpur in Brittany, are to depart every Saturday from July 1. "Ireland, and specifically County Kerry, is a very popular destination for French...
Edinburgh’s red-eyed easyJet flyers to get day-before bag drop
Edinburgh Airport and easyJet have announced that passengers can leave luggage at the airport the day before a flight as part of the carrier's "twilight bag drop" service. Passengers on early morning flights can "come to the airport the night before to check in bags,...
airBaltic leases more aircraft after criticising engine maker Pratt & Whitney
Latvia's airBaltic says it needs to temporarily lease extra aircraft for two months from March 27 due to "the manufacturer's inability to fulfil the obligations of engine maintenance in a timely manner". "We are strongly committed to our contractual obligations to...
Gatwick Airport announces start of Air India flights
The first of what are to be 12 Air India flights a week from London Gatwick Airport took off on March 26. The airport said the new routes to Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi and Goa would support tourism and trade between the two countries. “These exiting routes open up a...
Wizz Air trumpets first flight to Nice from London Gatwick
The first flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Nice took off on March 25, the Hungarian budget airline has announced. The route is the latest to get off the ground from the south London hub, from where Wizz flies to around 90 destinations. “We are happy to...
Eastern Airways pairs up with Air France to offer three new Paris-UK routes
British regional carrier Eastern Airways has announced the launch of three Paris routes services "in cooperation with Air France", with the daily services to Paris Orly from East Midlands, Cardiff and Southampton airports to Paris Orly to start in April 2023. “We are...
London Gatwick announces winter route to Mauritius
Air Mauritius will start daily winter flights from Gatwick Airport to the Indian Ocean island in October 2023. The addition of the route will take the south London hub to "almost 50 long-haul destinations". “Air Mauritius’ arrival at London Gatwick is fantastic news...
Southwest and Sabre announce sales software deal
Southwest Airlines has announced a tie-up with Sabre Corporation to use the sales software system PRISM. Hosted in Google's cloud system, PRISM "automates, aggregates and analyses corporate sales information globally, providing companies with the decision science to...