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Heathrow airport departures temporarily halted following ‘drone sighting’
The airport said it was investigating a sighting at around 5.45pm on Tuesday (January 8)
London City airport sets new passenger record
A total of 4.8 million passengers passed through its doors
First look at Stansted’s new £150m arrivals terminal
Work on the 39,000sq/m terminal will begin in the spring and is due for completion in autumn 2020
Heathrow launches fresh consultation on noise, night flying and new flightpaths
Airport calls for community to contribute to discussions over noise, runway alternation and night flying relating to its two existing runways and proposed new third runway
Police handed new powers to tackle illegal drone use
Measures include extending exclusion zones around airports
Bristol aims to increase capacity by one third
Bristol airport is looking to grow relationships with more regional travel agents as it seeks to increase capacity by one third
Malaysia Airlines appoints new UK boss
Daniel Bainbridge moves from IAG
Monarch engineering arm enters administration
Work at Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s maintenance business has been suspended and around 250 employees made redundant
Jet Airways seeks investor as banks come calling
India’s second biggest airline in need of white knight
Qatar Airways invests in Chinese partner
Qatar Airways takes stake in China Southern
Air crash deaths increase in 2018, but flying still safe
Air fatalities rose last year, but trend is still downwards
Air passenger satisfaction drops again as north-south divide revealed
Overall levels of consumer satisfaction among air passengers has fallen again from 83% to 82% since April and from 90% in 2016
Airport investor dividends 'could be driving up air fares'
Tension between airports’ desire to expand while levying high landing charges on airlines operating on narrow margins could ultimately be harming consumers
Worst airlines for disruptive passengers revealed
A Which? survey found nearly one in six passengers flying with one particular budget airline had been on a flight blighted by a disruptive passenger over the last year
Majority stake in Gatwick sold to French operator for £2.9bn
Vinci Airports, which has a network of 46 airports in 12 countries, will take a 50.01% stake in Gatwick
Hundreds of people arrested on planes or at airports for being drunk, new figures show
It comes as the Home Office continues its review of the rules around airport drinking
Gatwick offers £50k reward for information on drone culprits
The Mirror reports a government source said that the disruption would be discussed in a Christmas Eve conference call
Wow Air to switch Gatwick flight to Stansted
Airline will make Essex airport its London base from March 31
London City airport gives customers a glimpse of £500m development
The new terminal will be four times the size of current facilities
Bristol airport takes step towards 20 million passenger vision
A planning application has been submitted to increase passenger capacity to 12 million
Updated: Gatwick flights remain grounded due to drone activity
Services suspended at airport due to presence of drones near runway
BA to add London City route to Split
Service to Croatian city will be launched in June 2019
BA to launch flights to Islamabad in 2019
Airline will operate to Pakistani city from next summer
New Birmingham airport boss confirmed
Former Luton airport chief moves role