Airports

Wizz Air to restart Luton-Athens service this autumn

Flights to the Greek capital will restart in October

Renewed regional focus for Ryanair's 'biggest-ever' winter schedule

Budget carrier to operate 440 routes in total this winter, including new services at Birmingham, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted

Tui extends Sri Lanka cancellations despite FCDO reprive

The company has cancelled holidays up to and including 11 September

Ethiopian to up Manchester-Geneva service this winter

The airline has increased its current three times weekly service to four time a week

Doha's hub aspirations boosted by Finnair-Qatar Airways codeshare

Oneworld partners ’agree to long-term strategic cooperation’ on new Finnair routes to Doha from Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and one as yet unnamed additional European destination

EasyJet Holidays adds more free child places for summer 2023

The move comes as the operator reports an uptick in demand from families booking ahead for next summer

Loganair suspends winter operations at Cornwall airport

Daily services to Manchester and onwards to Aberdeen and non-stop flights to Edinburgh and Newcastle will be suspended between November 2022 and March 2023

Stansted airport workers to vote on strike action

Unite members including security officers and firefighters are being balloted

British Airways to reinstate non-stop Buenos Aires flight

British Airways has begun loading summer 2023 timetable changes, with several new routes

Truss backs 'viable' Doncaster Sheffield airport

Tory leadership frontrunner says Doncaster Sheffield airport should remain open

‘Cost of doing business’ crisis and Wizz Air probe

Headlines focus on how businesses face crippling energy bills from the autumn

Major Travel adds easyJet and Jet2.com flights to product offering

The addition of the low-cost carriers will open up a variety of new routes and regional departure points

Portuguese ground handler confirms bank holiday weekend strike action

Portway, which provides ground handling services at Portugal’s main airports, said the action would ’compromise the recovery of the tourism sector’

Jet2.com gifts 100 millionth customer five pairs of free flights

Other customers also received a VIP customer experience at check-in, with a red-carpet welcome and balloon arch

Almost 1,000 bank holiday flights cut, new data reveals

Cirium data shows airlines have cancelled around 900 August bank holiday flights already

Portuguese ground handlers poised to walk out this weekend

Talks between unions and Portugal’s directorate-general for employment and labour relations reportedly break down following dispute over pay and conditions

Stay of execution for Doncaster Sheffield as review extended

A six-week review into the airport’s future was initially launched by owners Peel Group in July, and has now been extended to mid-September

Gatwick’s economic warning and firms facing ‘financial disaster’

Economic headwinds could seriously threaten the travel industry’s recovery from the pandemic, national titles warn

Loganair awards 150,000th Inverness-Manchester passenger free flight

Archie and Florrie Gray were ready to board their flight to visit their dad in Manchester when they were greeted with the surprise at Inverness airport

Flybe to return to Newquay after two-and-a-half year hiatus

Newly-reborn regional carrier last operated to Newquay in the months preceding the pandemic and becomes Newquay’s 10th, more than it had pre-pandemic

Play launches Washington route from London and Dublin

Icelandic budget carrier links London and Dublin with Washington Dulles

Crossrail Heathrow link to open in November

Elizabeth line will operate from Heathrow direct to London and ExCeL Centre from 6 November

Manston airport gets backing for passenger flight return

Kent’s Manston airport is given the go-ahead to seek passenger services after absence of eight years.

Gatwick says no more flight restrictions after August

Gatwick says a recruitment programme means it will not have to impose any more capacity restrictions