Routes

Air India names Bengaluru its fifth direct route from Gatwick airport

Five-times-weekly service will take off on 18 August

British Airways adds Lapland to Gatwick network

The airline’s short-haul subsidiary BA Euroflyer will operate flights to Finnish village Ivalo and Cypriot city Larnaca this winter

Virgin Atlantic to resume direct Tel Aviv flights in September

Daily services between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv will resume on 5 September

Virgin Atlantic resumes Manchester-Las Vegas flights after pandemic pause

The reintroduced flights operate on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the Airbus A350-1000

EasyJet expands Malta programme with new Liverpool route

The route will operate on Tuesdays and Sunday, throughout the year starting from 10 December 2024

Jet2 puts 2025/26 ski flight programme on sale from 10 UK bases

Airline and operator will serve eight ski gateways – Chambery, Geneva, Grenoble, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Lyon, Turin and Verona

Tui bases second aircraft at Bournemouth ahead of Jet2 launch next year

The new Boeing 787 will double Tui’s capacity at Bournemouth to 195,000 seats for the summer season

Jet2 puts 2025/26 winter sun programme on sale across 12 UK bases

Major Morocco expansion, two brand new winter routes and first winter sun programme from new 12th base Bournemouth among highlights

Aviation growth could unlock billions in wasted economic potential – study

New research commissioned by Manchester Airports Group suggests greater government support for aviation could unlock more than £10 billion in economic value

Aer Lingus to launch three-times weekly Dublin-Las Vegas service

Irish flag carrier will operate the route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays starting 25 October

British Airways to return to Jeddah after five-year hiatus

Four-times-weekly service to take off on 4 November

Transatlantic carrier JetBlue cuts winter Gatwick flights

The airline made the decision to reduce its flight frequency due to rising operational costs and patchy demand

Air Transat to ramp up Glasgow-Toronto flights this summer

Daily flights will run from 20 May to October, representing an increase from two flights a week in the airline’s winter schedule, the carrier said

Edinburgh and Glasgow poised to gain new budget Turkey flights

Pegasus Airlines’ new Edinburgh-Istanbul route will take off this summer before SunExpress lands at Glasgow next summer

Emirates to relaunch daily Edinburgh flights with new flagship aircraft

Gulf carrier to restart flights between Dubai and the Scottish capital in November after axing the route during Covid

EasyJet expands Glasgow base and launches Enfidha and Larnaca flights

Airline will base an extra aircraft in Glasgow this summer, its sixth, allowing it to launch new routes to Enfidha in Tunisia and Larnaca in Cyprus

EasyJet holidays adds two new island destinations to summer programme

France’s Corsica and Spain’s Sitges available to book for summer 2024

New Jet2 routes take off from Birmingham and Edinburgh airports

The airline and operator will serve Montenegro from BHX for the first time this summer, while Edinburgh has gained its first Jet2 service to Malta

British Airways to offer Croatia's Split from Stansted this summer

Weekend flights to get under way on 7 September

British Airways restarts London-Abu Dhabi service after four-year pause

Daily Heathrow service took off at the weekend (21 April)

Iceland's Play to launch seasonal Cardiff service this winter

Play will operate two flights per week for six weeks to coincide with school holidays in Wales from 28 October to 1 November

Flights to the Middle East resume following Iran's drone attack on Israel

Royal Jordanian, Egyptair and El Al have resumed operations following the weekend’s skirmishes

Aer Lingus to put on extra Manchester-Orlando flights over Christmas and new year

Irish carrier will up its Manchester-Orlando service to four-times-weekly from 18 December 2024 to 8 January 2025

UK gains three new air routes serving the Silk Road and central Asia

New links with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have taken off from Gatwick, bringing the number of Asian destinations served from the airport to 12