#theguardian.com. × #Feb.27.2026 BA owner’s profits rise by 20% despite drop in passenger numbers last year. IAG enjoys record operating profits on margins of more than 15% at British Airways and sister airline Iberia
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Spain #Europe #British Airways
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.18.2026 Ryanair may let dual nationals board UK flights without a British passport. Airline statement will reassure Britons abroad anxious about new immigration rules coming into effect next week
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Ryanair #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2026 EU proposals for free extra cabin bags on planes ‘lunatic idea’, says easyJet. Giving passengers right to additional carry-on baggage would be ‘terrible for the consumer’, warns airline’s CEO
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #easyJet #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.29.2025 Europe’s first Mars rover will have UK-built lander. Airbus also built the Rosalind Franklin rover, due to launch in 2028 to search for signs of past life
#Aviation × #Science #Tech #United Kingdom × #Europe #Airbus
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.24.2025 Heathrow fire: transport secretary says she’d ‘struggle to sleep’ after report airport boss went to bed amid crisis. Heidi Alexander declines to say she has confidence in Thomas Woldbye after airport chaos at the weekend
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.22.2025 ‘Wake-up call’: ministers launch urgent investigation into Heathrow shutdown. Government says lessons need to be learned after the substation fire that caused chaos for 300,000 passengers
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.22.2025 Heathrow airport reopens but ‘huge impact’ on travel expected for days – live updates. Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a ‘huge impact’ on passengers in the coming days
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #United Airlines #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.21.2025 ‘Questions to answer’: Downing Street vows to learn from Heathrow closure. Ministers acknowledge ‘immense distress and disruption’ to passengers after substation fire forces airport to shut
#Aviation × #Politics #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.21.2025 Heathrow shutdown raises questions about back-up systems for Europe’s biggest airport. Airlines and passengers likely to face days of disruption after fire at substation causes travel chaos
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #United Airlines #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.21.2025 Hayes fire: Heathrow airport closed after blaze at electrical substation in west London. Passengers advised not to travel to the airport, which would be closed until midnight on Friday due to a substation fire
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.17.2025 John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last Battle of Britain pilot, dies aged 105. The pilot, whose squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft in an 11-day period in 1940, called himself the ‘lucky Irishman’
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.20.2025 British firms among companies to have exported aircraft parts that reached Russia. Analysis suggests aircraft parts from more than 100 western companies reached Russian aviation industry via India
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Russia #Europe #Asia #India
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.01.2025 Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport. The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.26.2025 Rachel Reeves indicates support for third runway at Heathrow. Chancellor says runway would mean fewer planes circling London, and points to moves towards sustainable flying
#Aviation × #Politics #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.25.2025 The Heathrow runway row is back as debate over airport growth gets noisier. With four similar expansions set for take-off around the south-east of England, could the proposal finally get clearance?
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.18.2025 Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK. MP says says he is totally committed to his constituency after Isabel Oakeshott moved to the Emirates
#Aviation × #Politics #United Kingdom × #Emirates #Europe #Asia #United Arab Emirates
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.06.2025 Medals of second world war pilot who flew 500 miles with plane on fire to be auctioned. When Clive Beadon’s bomber caught fire after being hit by Japanese shell, he and crew kept flames doused with flasks of tea
#Aviation × #United Kingdom × #Japan #Europe #Asia
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