Air

98% of pilots have 'no confidence' in Shapps to help aviation

Huge majority of pilots give thumbs down to Shapps in poll

EasyJet holidays looks to double trade team

Positions available include business development manager and distribution executive

Philippine Airlines seeks bankruptcy protection

Philippine flag carrier becomes latest to seek financial restructuring due to the pandemic

Wizz Air adds more Luton flights

Budget airline reinstates more flights

Atol reform could push small businesses under, warns leading accountant

CAA warned not to overreact to Thomas Cook and Monarch collapses

Tunisair to fly from Stansted next year

New Stansted-Tunis link confirmed

Norwegian Air expands autumn route network following demand increase

From Bergen passengers will now be able to fly direct to Berlin, Krakow, Malaga, Alicante, Antalya, Chania, Copenhagen and London

Heathrow attacks ‘unacceptable’ queues and PM faces revolt

Passengers using the UK’s hub airport faced long border queues at the weekend

Balpa demands summit with PM after Heathrow sees 'five-hour' border queues

"Government decisions have seemingly set about destroying the foundations of global Britain by an apparent deliberate undermining of the aviation industry" - acting general secretary Martin Chalk

British Airways details Gatwick short-haul plan

New British Airways subsidiary to fly from Gatwick if unions agree

CMA probes PCR test firm and warns 19 others

CMA crackdown on PCR test firms begins

'Scrap red list and be like other countries,' says ex-BA director

Airline industry consultant says red list not needed unless new variant emerges

Amber list arrivals 'breaking rules', ONS survey finds

ONS finds a quarter of amber list arrivals did not quarantine or test

Agent campaign group calls for new joint lobbying effort

Target leads last push to avoid redundancies through sector-specific support from government, with furlough due to end this month

Virgin Atlantic reveals layout on new leisure route aircraft

Virgin Atlantic reveals slimmed down Upper Class social space on new aircraft

Jet2CityBreaks launches 2021/22 Iceland programme

The first scheduled service departed from Manchester airport on Thursday (2 September)

More than 30 countries confirm attendance at WTM London

Strong showing from Europe and Middle East exhibitors at WTM London

Iata boss blasts 'summer of missed opportunity'

Willie Walsh says governments failing to take advantage of vaccine and testing programmes to reopen borders

Jet2 reports uptick in demand for package holidays

’We remain optimistic that summer 2022 will be a considerable improvement on both summer 2020 and summer 2021,’ says Jet2.com and Jet2holidays executive chair Philip Meeson

Portugal relaxes Covid requirements for UK travellers

Country drops requirement for UK visitors to be double jabbed

Latam resumes Brazil-Europe services, but UK remains on hold

Covid rules prevent Latam from resuming Heathrow flights

Emirates reintroduces A380 at Manchester as demand rebounds

The airline currently offers daily services to Manchester with flights operated by A380 aircraft operational from Wednesday (1 September)

Wizz Air latest to require vaccination for flight and cabin crew

All members must be inoculated by 1 December

Qatar Airways increases Manchester and Edinburgh capacity

More flights added to Doha from key UK airports