Easyjet founder Stelios to grill airline’s bosses over Airbus order

Easyjet founder Stelios to grill the budget airline’s bosses next week in battle over £4.5bn Airbus order By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 9 July 2020 Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is battling bosses over a £4.5bn order with Airbus for more than 100 … Read more

United Airlines could furlough 36,000 employees by October 1 once its $5 billion COVID-19 aid ends

United Airlines could furlough 36,000 employees, or roughly 45 per cent of its workforce, by October 1 amid a drop in air travel resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.   The fall deadline marks when a restriction against enacting furloughs and layoffs in a $5 billion payroll bailout of the airline expires. Officials at United made the … Read more

Chrissy Teigen SLAMS American Airlines for not caring if passengers ‘get sick and die’ on flights

Chrissy Teigen SLAMS American Airlines for ‘only caring about money’ and not caring if passengers ‘get sick and die’ as they resume booking flights to capacity amid COVID-19 By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 21:37 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 21:37 BST, 3 July 2020 Chrissy Teigen publicly lambasted American Airlines on Friday, after Senator … Read more

Boeing shuts down 747 jumbo jet 50 years after its maiden flight as airlines shift to smaller planes

The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, has passed into aviation history. Nearly 50 years after the its debut, the 747 took its final commercial flight with an American carrier on Delta Air Lines. It ‘made flying … Read more

American Airlines to move Heathrow flight operations from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 from July 7

American Airlines to move Heathrow flight operations from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 from July 7, with qualifying passengers able to use British Airways’ swanky lounges First-class passengers will be able to check-in at BA’s exclusive ‘First Wing’  American’s check-in desks will be located in Zone C for business and economy American will be operating … Read more

Grant Shapps unveils plan to make flights greener – as airlines launch quarantine legal action

Grant Shapps tonight unveiled plans to make future flights more environmentally friendly – on the same day the Government was accused of bringing aviation in the UK to its knees. The Transport Secretary used the daily Downing Street press conference to unveil the formation of a ‘jet zero council’ bringing together figures from the aviation industry, … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Footsie falters as airlines and pubs face more pain

Optimism in global markets gave way to gloom yesterday as the painful impact of the coronavirus became clearer. As pubs in Britain were told they will not be allowed to open this month, bleak data from the eurozone and another dire warning for airlines gave traders the jitters. The turmoil sent London’s FTSE 100 index … Read more

Airlines hit ministers with discrimination writ

British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet SUE the government over ‘irrational and disproportionate’ 14-day quarantine rules Ministers have been hit with an unprecedented joint legal action by UK airlines British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair have joined forces to argue that the measure is illegal on the grounds that it is discriminatory and irrational   Airlines argue … Read more

The airlines that will let you book NOW with flexibility for late 2020 and early 2021

Locked-down travellers everywhere are searching for holiday flights to alleviate their itchy feet. Most are looking to jet off later this year or in 2021, hoping that the coronavirus crisis will have disappeared by then. But they are eyeing up flight options with a sense of wariness over ticket flexibility, the pandemic having yielded chaos … Read more