Aeroflot is world’s most on-time airline followed by ANA and Delta with Virgin Atlantic best in UK

Russia’s Aeroflot has been named as the world’s most on-time mainline airline in 2019 in a new report. It has beaten Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA), which comes second, and highest-ranked U.S airline Delta Air Lines is third overall. Virgin Atlantic is the UK’s most on-schedule carrier. Meanwhile, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport is named as the … Read more

British Airways pilots face 50 per cent pay cut in desperate bid to save airline

British Airways pilots have opted to take a 50 per cent pay cut in April and May as the company fights for its survival amidst the coronavirus pandemic.   BA employs 4,500 pilots who will take two weeks of unpaid leave each month. The reduction in their salary will be spread out over three months to … Read more

Airline billionaires told: Put hands in your OWN pockets to help the bailout

Sir Richard Branson and other billionaire aviation investors should reach into their own pockets and contribute to any bailout deal for the sector, former Ministers have demanded. The Government is thought to be on the verge of agreeing a multi-billion pound rescue deal for airlines and airports – which could include the State taking stakes … Read more

British Airways pilots face 50 per cent pay cut in desperate bid to save airline

British Airways pilots have opted to take a 50 per cent pay cut in April and May as the company fights for its survival amidst the coronavirus pandemic.   BA employs 4,500 pilots who will take two weeks of unpaid leave each month. The reduction in their salary will be spread out over three months to … Read more

Spice up your flight! Jet2.com becomes the first UK airline to serve Nando’s snacks onboard 

Spice up your flight! Jet2.com becomes the first UK airline to serve Nando’s snacks onboard The Leeds-based airline will be introducing ‘Nando’s Peri–Peri Flight Bites’  The products include a dip, drizzle and dunk ‘Nando’s Box’ Customers can also ‘take their taste buds on a trip with Half-popped Corn’  By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor Published: … Read more

Peter Weber reveals his former airline is ‘ceasing operations’ amid coronavirus

Pilot Peter Weber reveals his former airline is ‘ceasing operations’ amid coronavirus outbreak: ‘The memories will stay with me forever’ By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com Published: 23:36 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 23:36 GMT, 20 March 2020 Pilot Peter Weber is bidding farewell to his former employer Compass Airline as it is expected to … Read more

Singapore Airlines, Jet2.com, Qatar, EVA and Emirates all pick up TripAdvisor best airline awards

For a second year in a row Singapore Airlines has been named as the best airline in the world in the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards, with Jet2.com named the best in the UK and Europe and Southwest Airlines hailed as North America’s best carrier. Award winners were determined using an algorithm that took into account … Read more

Airline boss insists coronavirus crisis WON’T blow him off course

Robin Hayes is coming to London from the US – and he’s bringing his $8billion low-cost airline with him.  The chief executive of America’s sixth largest carrier, JetBlue – currently being violently buffeted along with rivals by the impact of the coronavirus crisis – already has a production line of Airbus 321LR aircraft fired up … Read more