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easyJet Flight Evacuated at Manchester Airport over Bomb Claim

An easyJet flight has been evacuated at Manchester airport after a passenger claimed to have explosives in his bag. Passengers were asked to disembark after the plane's captain alerted police to the potential threat. Greater Manchester Police confirmed that the EZY1893 flight, bound for Marrakech, Morocco, was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. as security checks were carried out. Two men we...

HAE acquires South Africa’s Groupair

UK air cargo services provider HAE says it bought Groupair in South Africa – but the firm has not revealed any financial terms of the deal. Groupair is a neutral consolidator providing air, sea, road and courier services. HAE says that Groupair is able to assist customers with requirements for air, sea and road freight in the South or Sub-Saharan Africa region. On Gro...

Gatwick Handles 40 Million Passengers For the First Time

Gatwick broke the 40 million passengers a year mark for the first time on the weekend of November 14/15. An airport statement said Gatwick is now “rapidly approaching full capacity” as it published its traffic data for October. Gatwick has highlighted that the Airports Commission report into the need for a new runway to serve South East England (published on July 1, 2015) said it woul...

Easyjet places $3.6b Airbus order as profits surge

British no-frills airline Easyjet on Tuesday ordered 36 Airbus A320 jets worth $3.8 billion (Dh13.95 billion) at catalogue prices, after posting record annual profits on keen demand. Easyjet said in a results statement it will purchase 30 next-generation fuel-efficient A320neo aircraft, converting options that had been announced back in 2013, and has added another six firm orders for current-ge...

Easyjet reports record profits for fifth straight year

Easyjet has posted its fifth successive year of record profits, boosted by what the airline said were "favourable economic and consumer trends". Annual profits at the carrier, which has just celebrated its 20th birthday, jumped 18% to £686m. Revenues rose 3.5% to £4.68bn, with passenger numbers up 6% to 68.6 million in the year to end-September. The figures do not in...

Luton airport, passenger number grows by 21.5% in October, 2015

Over 1 million people flew through London Luton Airport (LLA) in October taking it past 12 million passengers in 12 months for the first time in its 77 year history. The 21.5% increase in October vs. the same period last year marks 19 months of consecutive growth in passenger numbers for the airport, which is currently undergoing a £110m development project to increase annual capacity fro...

UK To Boost Funding For Intelligence Agencies, Aviation Security

Britain will boost its intelligence agency staff by 15 percent and more than double spending on aviation security to counter the increasing threat from Islamist militants. The government said it had decided to increase resources in the wake of the growing number of plots against Britain and recent militant attacks, including those in Paris and Tunisia. "I am determined to prioritise the...

Gatwick security scare: Frenchman Jerome Chauris charged over alert

A Frenchman has been charged with possession of an air rifle and a knife, following a major security alert at Gatwick airport on Saturday. Massive disruption was caused at the North Terminal following the incident at 9.30am on Saturday when Sussex Police were alerted to the "suspicious actions" of a 41-year-old man. Jerome Chauris, from Vendome, is due to appear in court on Monday....

Gatwick Terminal Evacuated After Security Alert

Police have evacuated Gatwick Airport's North Terminal after a suspect package sparked a security alert. A man has been arrested after he was allegedly seen discarding a suspicious item in the building. Bomb squad experts were sent to the airport in West Sussex to investigate. Crowds are waiting at the airport and nearby roads have been closed. Gatwick officials have apologised f...

‘Norwegian UK’ set to take-off as airline is granted UK Air Operating License

Norwegian, Europe’s third largest low-cost airline, has today been granted a UK Operating License opening up bilateral traffic rights to a series of potential new markets including Asia, South America and South Africa as the airline continues its huge growth in the UK. Norwegian has grown to become the third-largest airline at Gatwick and also operates from Manchester, Birmingham, and Edi...

UK businesses echo FTA call for Heathrow third runway decision

UK business leaders have echoed the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) call for the UK government to make a decision regarding expanding Heathrow Airport. Business leaders including the Confederation of British Industry president, Paul Drechsler says “decisive action” is needed and the government needs to “get on” and expand Heathrow Airport. In July this year,...

British Airways owner IAG says not in talks with Finnair

British Airways-owner IAG said it was not in talks with Finnair, denying a report in a Finnish newspaper that had fuelled speculation it might take a stake in the majority state-owned Finnish airline. "We haven't been in any discussions with Finnair," a spokeswoman for IAG told Reuters on Thursday. The online edition of Finland's business daily Kauppalehti had cited an IAG...

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