Routes

London City airport calls for prompt air bridge regime

Survey of nearly 5,000 passengers ahead of resumption of operations on Sunday (21 June) reveals ’encouraging early passenger demand’

Air Malta to restart UK flight operations by mid-July

Heathrow flights to get under way from 15 July, with Manchester flights to follow in August

Norwegian to restart UK flights from 1 July

Initial short-haul schedule to include Oslo and Copenhagen

Wizz Air announces UK routes from new Romania base

Budget carrier to fly to Luton and Liverpool from Bacau

EasyJet reveals six new summer 2021 routes at Luton

Carrier announces Zakynthos, Larnaca, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Marrakech and Varna links, and increased frequencies on a further 11 routes

BA parent IAG considering quarantine legal challenge

Quarantine ‘has torpedoed our opportunity to get flying in July’, IAG boss Willie Walsh claims

Wizz Air May traffic slumps 96%

Figures underline massive drop-off in air travel demand

Government open to air bridge agreements

Home secretary Priti Patel and transport secretary Grant Shapps confirm government working with transport industry to explore ’travel corridor’ agreements with other countries

Lufthansa plans major resumption of UK and Irish services

Group to operate additional 115 weekly services from the UK and Ireland from 15 June

Wizz Air to launch new Palma and Malaga routes on 1 July

Fuerteventura route to follow on 3 July, and Lanzarote in late October

Lufthansa to restore more UK and Ireland services from 1 June

German carrier to offer onward connections, via Germany, to ’many summer and leisure destinations’

Etihad to restore regular London-Melbourne service

The route, which will operate via Abu Dhabi, will get under way from Melbourne on 15 May before the first outbound London service takes off on 21 May

BA offers up slots to resolve competition concerns over US routes

BA and joint venture partner American Airlines willing to give up slots at Heathrow or Gatwick to resolve competition concerns over their joint business on certain UK-US routes

Wizz Air announces new 2020 summer sun routes

Budget carrier to embark on ‘new era of sanitised travel’

Charter flights to bring 900 Brits home from Nigeria

About 900 people who will board three chartered flights put on by the UK government – on 28 April, 1 May and 5 May – will bring the total number of travellers brought home from the country to about 2,000.

This follows flights last week from Lagos and Abuja to London.

"We appreciate this has been a difficult time and will continue to work closely with the Nigerian authorities to support those wishing to return to the UK," said James Duddridge, minister of state for Africa.

British Airways to fly over 770 tonnes of PPE from China

The carrier will operate 21 flights from China to London every week in May

EasyJet 'could restart flights with two weeks' notice'

Lundgren said the airline could keep the middle seat empty in a bid to continue social distancing measures

Sri Lankan Airlines confirms Colombo-London flight

Limited options remain for Britons seeking to return from the island nation

Etihad announces London and Dublin repatriation flights

Abu Dhabi-London flights take place over 16-18 April and Dublin flights on 15, 20 and 22 April

British Airways loads aircraft with NHS supplies

The airline is due to transport 55 tonnes of hand sanitiser to the UK

Raab to lead Covid-19 response as Johnson hospitalised

Dominic Raab, leading a press conference in Boris Johnson’s absence, confirmed thousands more people had been brought home

Wizz Air suspends UK-Romania flights

Budget carrier to suspend flights to Romania from 6-18 April, citing local travel restrictions

British Embassy confirms additional repatriation flight from Peru

Further charter flight to London confirmed, although it may yet not be for at least another 10 days

Emirates and Etihad to resume limited repatriation operations next week

Emirates says its flights will help stranded travellers ’return home to their countries and families’