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British Airways to increase capacity to Barbados this summer

BA will operate its Heathrow-Barbados service this summer using a larger Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft

Virgin Atlantic adds second daily Heathrow-Mumbai service

The new frequency will launch 27 October, with tickets going on sale next week

Tui expands summer 2025 programme to more than 10 million seats

Operator adds 345,000 seats for summer 2025 and will base an extra aircraft in Exeter

EasyJet relaunches Alicante route from Newcastle airport

Twice-weekly service took off on Tuesday (2 April) and will operate through to the end of October on Tuesdays and Saturdays

Jet2 to up capacity at new Liverpool base by more than a quarter next year

Jet2 will operate flights to 20 European destinations this summer, and expects to increase capacity at Liverpool by 28% next year

Norse Atlantic to launch Gatwick-Las Vegas route in September

Norse will operate the route three times a week starting 12 September

More Brits favouring shoulder season travel over peak periods

TravelSupermarket’s 2024 Pulse Report 2024 revealed the five most-booked departure dates last year fell during the autumn

Jet2 boss rules out Gatwick launch and says no more new bases after Bournemouth

Steve Heapy has signalled an end to Jet2’s expansion into new UK bases following the announcement of a move into Bournemouth airport in 2025

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays names Bournemouth as its 12th UK base

Jet2 flights will take off from Bournemouth next summer (2025), flying to 16 destinations across Europe, the Canaries and the Med

'Expect disruption' Tui warns as Spanish airport workers plan walkouts

Disruption will likely take place at several Spanish airports, including Majorca, Madrid and Valencia

Six new routes poised to take off from Heathrow this summer

Airport to gain new connections with Abu Dhabi, Kos, Izmir, Bangalore, Barcelona and Paris-Orly this summer

EasyJet lands at Birmingham airport – but can it take on Jet2 and Tui?

Midlands agents welcome easyJet’s first new base for nearly 10 years as the competition between travel’s new big three hots up

EasyJet puts winter 2024/25 programme on sale

More than 10 million seats have gone on sale for the coming winter

Royal Air Maroc brings back Manchester-Casablanca route

Royal Maroc will offer three flights a week from Manchester on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays

Virgin Atlantic to open up east Africa with Kenya Airways codeshare

Carriers ink deal which will initially extend to Kenya Airways’ Heathrow service to Nairobi

Ryanair ramps up seats to Germany ahead of Euro 2024

The low-cost carrier has added more than 4,000 seats from London Stansted and Manchester to Cologne, Dortmund and Frankfurt

Turkish budget carrier to serve Stansted following rebrand

Turkish Airlines-owned Ajet to operate ’a range of services from the UK’

JetBlue launches daily New York and Boston services to Dublin

US carrier adds Dublin to its transatlantic network

Jet2 to launch eighth Christmas market destination next winter

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate twice-weekly services to Gdansk from Manchester and Birmingham airports

British Airways brings back Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and reveals £7 billion product revamp

British Airways confirms reinstatement of two long-haul routes as it reveals a £7 billion investment in product

Stansted gains new four-times-weekly service to Jordan's capital Amman

Royal Jordanian’s Stansted route took off on Sunday

EasyJet to up Palma and Paris capacity at Southend this summer

Extra peak season flights will increase eastJet frequency to up to eight weekly flights to the Majorcan capital this summer

EasyJet claims UK airline first with new Amalfi coast flights

EasyJet will be the first UK airline to launch flights to Salerno where a former military airport is due to open to commercial flights for the first time in July

Virgin Atlantic to expand year-round Jamaica service

The carrier will offer seven weekly flights from Heathrow to the Caribbean island from 31 March