The UK Ministry of Transport has temporarily loosened the rules on the minimum utilization rate of airport slots to help airlines avoid last-minute flight cancellations due to staff shortages.more
Global airlines losses this year will amount to $ 9.7 billion - estimates the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The challenge for carriers in 2022 will be to keep costs under control, as well as high fuel prices, it added.more
EasyJet has announced plans to cut more flights over the busy summer period. The airline previously expected to run about 97% of its pre-Covid flight levels between July and September but that is now being scaled back to 90%.more
Ryanair has announced the largest winter flight schedule from Łódź in history. In the new season, the carrier will offer over 25 flights a week, including three new routes - to Alicante, Brussels Charleroi and Milan Bergamo.more
Due to the staff shortage, London Gatwick airport reduced the number of available flights during the peak summer period. The reason is the staff shortage that the entire aviation industry is currently struggling with.more
The cabin crew of Ryanair's branch in Portugal announced a strike on June 24, 25 and 26, accusing the authorities of the airline's domestic branch of breaching labor rights. Several dozen flights in Europe are at risk, incl. to Poland.more
"We will not make any concessions under the threat of a strike," Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said yesterday at a press conference in Brussels. Irish airline employees have announced strikes in several European countries.more
Ryanair's in-flight crew in Spain announced yesterday a strike in late June / early July. According to the media, the implementation of the protest action may lead to the cancellation of numerous flights.more
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will launch new connections from Kraków Airport to Toulouse in France, as well as to Poznań, in this year's winter flight schedule, the authorities of Kraków Airport said.more
Lufthansa has announced that in July it will remove 900 connections from Munich and Frankfurt am Main from its schedule. This is the result of the recent chaos at German airports, caused by shortages of staff and crowds of passengers wanting to catch up with the pandemic and go on vacation, informs the website of the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.more
Ryanair has been accused of racial discrimination for making South African nationals take a general knowledge test in Afrikaans to prove their nationality before being allowed to board its flights in the UK and the rest of Europe.more
Airlines including Easyjet and Wizz Air have cancelled dozens of flights as UK air travel disruption continues. Easyjet said it had cut 80 flights on Sunday, and apologised to customers for the disruption.more
Yesterday, the first LOT Boeing 787 Dreamliner from New York's Newark airport landed at Kraków Airport. Flights from Krakow to this airport were resumed after 11 years.more
Airlines and operators have "seriously oversold flights and holidays" relative to their capacity to deliver, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said. Mr Shapps said it had been "very distressing" to see people facing more disruption at airports with "holidays cancelled and plans left in disarray".more
Passenger numbers at European airports will not return to pre-pandemic coronavirus levels until 2024 at the earliest. - announced yesterday the industry association of European airports ACI Europe.more
Flight data indicates that someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed China Eastern's Boeing 737-800 plane with 132 people on board, the Wall Street Journal says, citing its sources. The crash occurred on March 21 of this year. All were killed.more
Russian airlines will not be able to sell their unused slots at UK airports, the country's government announced today as part of further sanctions on the Russian aviation sector.more