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EasyJet and Ryanair have reacted angrily to a recent decision by the EU that long haul flights would be excluded from their crackdown on jet emission. Budget airlines said that the announcement made on Wednesday will be a mockery to…

Airline to grow revenue by 20pc after emerging from Covid 'valley' of death Virgin Atlantic, owned by Sir Richard Branson, is considering a return to Gatwick as well as flights from regional airports like Bristol. Virgin Atlantic has…

Heathrow desperately needs investment and "has a serious lag" behind other airports, according to the president of Emirates. Sir Tim Clark stated Heathrow pales in comparison to aviation hubs located in Asia and the Middle East. This…

How 'Turbo Tufan quelled the flames on an engineering giant's burning platform Tufan Erginbilgic, who took over Rolls-Royce just a few weeks ago, called a nervous staff to huddle at the company's Derby headquarters. The Turkish…

Qantas will pay A$100m (£53m) in penalties and A$20m to passengers as compensation for a legal dispute over the tickets it sold for cancelled flights. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) fine is among the highest…

Baltic Ministers warn that GPS jamming, attributed to Russia, could cause an air disaster. The interference with navigational signals forced two Finnish planes to turn back mid-flight after the interference. Separately, the foreign…

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, has stated that if it cannot hire foreign air stewards then they will have to cancel a planned expansion in UK flights. Mr O'Leary warned British workers that they no longer wanted to be…

EasyJet said that it has reduced its winter losses to at least £50m, and is confident about a record-breaking summer despite increased fuel costs and the loss of £40m due to the Middle East war. In a trading update released before the…

Virgin Atlantic, which almost died during the pandemic in 2009, says that it will achieve record profits this year when passenger numbers return to pre-Covid levels. The Heathrow carrier, owned by Virgin Group of Sir Richard Branson and…

After the aviation regulator ordered that the airport reduce the fees charged to airlines, passengers will now pay less when flying into and out of Heathrow. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), on Wednesday, ordered Heathrow to reduce…

British Airways, and its parent company will use self-driving robotic baggage carriers for the first in a UK airport as the aviation industry struggles with staff shortages. International Consolidated Airlines Group, which owns BA and…

EasyJet founder, Sir Stelios Ioannou, has declared a truce in his long-running dogfight with airline "scoundrels" that culminated in an unsuccessful boardroom coup. Haji-Ioannou has admitted that his spat with easyJet's chief executive…

British Airways Group IAG's financial performance is significantly better than what City analysts expected for 2023 as well as compared to 2019, the year prior to the Covid-19 travel restrictions. The group said that although business…

EasyJet will return to the FTSE 100 index next week, almost four years after the airline dropped out during the pandemic. Since mid-October, the share price of this airliner has increased by over half as a result of higher demand, higher…

Heathrow has finally returned to profitability and promises that it will transport more passengers in 2024 than ever before. This follows the pandemic and billions of pounds in losses as well as a bitter dispute with its airline clients.…

Shareholders of Tui voted by a large majority to leave the London Stock Exchange and opt for a single listing on the German Stock Exchange. The travel company Tui Group's shareholders at its annual meeting in Hanover voted with 98.35…

Air Astana could be worth up to 750 million pounds sterling when it goes to market. This is the Kazakhstan flag carrier's plan to be the largest float this year in London. Air Astana, however, has given 50 reasons to potential investors…

Ryanair's top-end profit estimates have been lowered this year, after online travel agencies removed flights operated by the Irish airline abruptly from their sites. The airline has been removing the travel agencies from its website for…