Ralph Edwin Villanueva The Philippine Star The entire Philippine airspace will be shut down on May 17th for about six hours for maintenance of the uninterrupted power supply (UPS) of the country’s air traffic management system, officials said yesterday. At a press briefing yesterday, Manila...

London Southend Airport has increased its airspace size to provide an additional hold for Southend air traffic and support future growth. Pilots can now hold at 4,000ft and 5,000ft – away from residential areas and over the channel to the East – and operate a continuous descent from a high le...

Due to the closure of Russian airspace, Finnair are making changes to our flights to Asian destinations and Russia. Finnair have said that they will continue their flights to Tokyo starting 09 March, Shanghai starting 10 March and Seoul starting 12 March avoiding the Russian airspace. They wil...

As part of the Government’s Airspace Modernisation Programme, London Stansted has begun the process of re-designing the network of corridors and flightpaths that aircraft use when travelling to and from the airport. The Government has requested that all UK airports review how new technology c...

UK air traffic management company NATS said January saw 181,362 flights fly through UK airspace - an increase of 1.6 per cent compared to January 2018. This accounted for 23.7 per cent of all European traffic and demonstrates the continuously increasing global demand for air travel. The bigge...

Heathrow Airport is holding the next phase of public consultation including on potential airspace change when the gateway is expanded which could see different geographic areas used when future flight paths are mapped. The eight-week consultation on 'Airspace & Future Operations' launched on 8 ...