Tag: Scotland

Loganair expands Glasgow-Donegal summer route schedule

Loganair expands Glasgow-Donegal summer route schedule

Scottish regional airline Loganair will introduce an enhanced schedule of services between Glasgow and Donegal, delivering year-round flights and its "biggest-ever" summer programme. Loganair's summer schedule will commence from 19 May with three weekly flights, rising to four between 6 May and 1...

Ryanair signs 5-year deal with Enilive for access to up to 100,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel

Ryanair announces 50 cabin crew jobs for Scotland

Ryanair has today (23 Aug) announced a major recruitment drive for 50 Edinburgh based cabin crew. To help find the perfect candidates for these exciting cabin crew roles, Ryanair is holding a recruitment day at The Double Tree By Hilton Edinburgh City Centre, on Tuesday, 5th September at 11:00 am....

ZeroAvia & AGS Airports Team Up to Bring Zero-Emission Flights to Scotland

ZeroAvia, the leader in developing zero-emission solutions for commercial aviation, today announced an agreement with AGS Airports to explore the development of hydrogen fuel infrastructure, regulatory framework requirements and resourcing required for delivering zero-emission flights from Aberdeen ...

Airport Operators Association’s response to First Minister’s announcement on travel

Responding to the First Minister’s announcement on international travel restarting in Scotland from 17 May, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “Ending blanket hotel quarantine measures is a big step forward for Scotland. "The Scottish Government’s decision to take...

Scotland quarantine rules: Air bridges announced for 44 countries

Scotland quarantine rules: Air bridges announced for 44 countries

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that Scots can enjoy summer holidays to a number of countries such as France with no quarantine from 10 July. Spain and Serbia are the two notable exceptions to the list as the First Minister still has concerns over the transmission rate of COVID-19 in these countr...

Spirit AeroSystems Opens New Spoiler Manufacturing Facility

Spirit AeroSystems announced today it has opened a new composite manufacturing facility at its site in Prestwick, Scotland. This facility leverages advanced composite technology from Spirit's research and development portfolio and brings new work to the site in the form of the Airbus A320 family sp...

Unite anger over outsourcing plans by Glasgow Airport

Unite anger over outsourcing plans by Glasgow Airport

Unite the union has reacted angrily to the announcement by Glasgow Airport that it plans to outsource its security and fire brigade services. Glasgow Airport launched a consultation yesterday (18 September) on the transfer of nearly 300 workers to ICTS (UK) who operate airport security functions...

easyJet adds new domestic route from to Birmingham to Edinburgh

easyJet adds new domestic route from to Birmingham to Edinburgh

easyJet has added a new route between Birmingham and Edinburgh – which will operate 13 times a week with flights launching on 29 March 2020. Over 180,000 passengers are expected to use the new service during the first 12 months of operation. The airline will utilize its all Airbus fleet of A3...

Loganair spreads its wings with six new routes

Loganair spreads its wings with six new routes

Scottish regional carrier Loganair continues to expand its network after unveiling six routes to commence in 2020 with new connections from Glasgow, Aberdeen and Newcastle. These include Glasgow to Cardiff with a 49-seat Embraer 145 aircraft from 27 February, Newcastle to Bergen with a 37-seat...

Glasgow Airport opens new £1.6m Lomond Lounge

Glasgow Airport opens new £1.6m Lomond Lounge

Glasgow Airport’s new £1.6m Lomond Lounge has welcomed its first passengers and is open to all flier out of the Scottish gateway. The plush lounge, which created 25 new jobs, is based airside in the departures area and will operate between 05.00h and 21.00h. This is the fourth lounge faci...

Widerøe increases flights to Bergen from Aberdeen

Widerøe increases flights to Bergen from Aberdeen

Norwegian regional carrier Widerøe is to add further flights to Bergen from Aberdeen International Airport later this year. From September, there will be an additional departure on a Sunday, meanwhile a third daily flight on a Wednesday will also be added to the flight schedule, bringing the t...

British Airways increases winter frequency between Heathrow and Scotland

British Airways increases winter frequency between Heathrow and Scotland

British Airways is to increase its winter schedule between London Heathrow Airport and Scotland operating almost 200 flights a week from October 2019 to March next year. The frequency increases on services from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen to Heathrow will start in the week beginning 27 Octob...

Aberdeen Airport strike action to go ahead after pay offer rejection

Aberdeen Airport strike action to go ahead after pay offer rejection

Unite the union today has reported that its membership at Aberdeen International Airport has rejected the latest pay offer and voted to continue industrial strike action this week. The latest pay offer to its members by the airport was rejected by 62.8 per cent, and by 71.5 per cent to reject th...

Six airports in Scotland closed for 24 hours due to ATC strike

Six airports in Scotland closed for 24 hours due to ATC strike

Six airports in Scotland have closed for 24 hours due to strike action being carried out by air traffic controllers over a pay dispute. Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) said the airports at Inverness, Dundee, Benbecula, Stornoway, Sumburgh (pictured above) in Shetland, and Kirkwall...

Glasgow Airport to invest £1.6m in new Lomond Lounge

Glasgow Airport to invest £1.6m in new Lomond Lounge

Glasgow Airport has unveiled the first design images of its exclusive new executive lounge. The Lomond Lounge will be based airside in the departures area and is due to open its doors to outbound passengers in August. More than £1.6 million is being invested in the plush new facility, which...

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