In the UK government's Spring Budget last week, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a further increase in air passenger duty, prompting criticism from industry leaders. Air passenger duty (APD) is a tax that passengers aged 16 and over will have to pay when they fly from most UK airports. It will...

A new survey from industry body Airlines UK has found that without a waiver from paying Air Passenger Duty (APD), 600 air routes will be lost in the short-term, as well as 8,000 jobs. 130 routes would be lost in 12 months if airlines had to continue paying APD, 80 per cent of which would be in th...

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has today (5 March 2019) released the full passenger figures for 2018 and said 292 million passengers travelled through UK airports - setting a new record for overall passenger numbers. The Airport Operators Association (AOA) said passenger growth has, howeve...

Edinburgh Airport has recorded the busiest ever year for a Scottish airport with more than 14 million people passing through in 2018. A total of 14,310,403 passengers came via Scotland’s busiest airport last year, up 6.5 per cent on the previous year. International traffic growth was up 9.5 per...