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Passengers board Virgin Atlantic's first sustainably fuelled commercial flight

TTG is joining the airline’s first flight powered by a ’commercially viable’ greener jet fuel, departing Orlando for Gatwick on Tuesday

Norwegian, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic offers Primera passengers repatriation fares

Some of the fares represent a discount of 50%

Delta boosts summer 2019 Heathrow service

Delta has scheduled 210-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on the new Portland and Detroit flights

Jet2 adds nearly a million passengers, new Atol figures confirm

Number two brand now well clear of Cook in terms of licensed passengers

Ryanair profits hit by strikes, fuel prices and EU compensation costs

The budget airline issued a profit warning on Monday (October 1)

Pobeda Airlines to launch Stansted-St Petersburg route

Flights to Russia’s second city to begin within a fortnight from Essex airport

Norwegian to launch six domestic routes in Argentina

Passengers arriving from the UK though via the airline’s new Gatwick-Buenos Aires route will have to change airports in the Argentine capital to access them

Primera Air to cease all operations and enter administration

The low-cast carrier has filed for bankruptcy citing a series of ’unforeseen misfortunate events’, including the loss of an aircraft to corrosion and delays in delivery of its fleet of Airbus A321neos

Air Transat appoints new UK and Ireland commercial director from Malaysia Airlines

The airline has also unveiled a new economy fare structure

Ryanair launches 'biggest ever' Manchester summer schedule

The schedule of 63 routes in total will include more flights to Belfast

EasyJet reveals it has 'benefited from Ryanair cancellations' in trading update

The airline is expecting full-year 2018 headline profit before tax of between £570-£580 million despite “disruption across Europe”

Ryanair adds Bournemouth-Prague route

The twice-weekly service will start next April

Ryanair to cancel 190 flights this Friday due to strike action

About 30,000 passengers will be affected, who have been informed of the cancellation by text and email

Ryan Reynolds winds up Richard Branson in clip launching gin partnership

Reynolds’ Aviation American Gin will be served onboard Virgin Atlantic flights

Monarch administration period extended

The administration of collapsed airline and tour operator Monarch has been extended by two years to try to secure more money for creditors

Norwegian Air pulls Edinburgh and Belfast transatlantic services

"Our affordable US flights were launched with the prospect of a reduction in air passenger taxes that was postponed by the Scottish government"

BA to resume Osaka service

The carrier last flew to the Japanese city in October 1998

Prince William flies BA to start #EndWildlifeCrime campaign

He will visit Namibia, Tanzania and Kenya to highlight the global threat of poaching

Flybmi reveals 'robust' management restructure

Jochen Schnadt will become managing director on October 11

Govt admits no-deal Brexit 'could' cause flight disruption

A guidance document published today forecast the outcome of a no-deal scenario on the aviation sector

Fresh warning over excessive pre-flight drinking

The One Too Many campaign is targeting hen and stag parties at airports

Airport boss vows to crack down on cowboy baggage handlers

Manchester airport CEO Andrew Cowan has spoken out after a Swissport baggage handler was caught on camera throwing luggage off an aircraft at the airport

Shocking footage shows reckless baggage handler hurl cases from flight

The video was captured by Ryanair passenger Elizabeth Evans at Manchester airport, and includes the moment her own bag is carelessly chucked from the hold

New Cathay Pacific aircraft unveiled with the most embarrassing typo

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