Author: Lee Fletcher
British Airways has said that it has resumed its nonstop service between Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and London Heathrow on Friday, November 19. The transatlantic service was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘The return of this premier international service from British Airways is great news for our travellers,’ said Ricky Smith, Executive Director of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. ‘This route will benefit our business and leisure passengers, and help support our continued recovery.’ British Airways will operate its BWI Marshall Airport service on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, which accommodates 214 passengers in a three-class…
WestJet has said that it will add a non-stop service to Calgary from London’s Heathrow Airport beginning early Spring 2022. The addition of the new non-stop service between Calgary and London-Heathrow is expected to facilitate recovery of business and leisure travel between the two destinations. The new route will operate this spring on the airline’s 787 Dreamliner. WestJet’s 787 service features the airline’s Business Cabin including lie-flat pods, dining on demand and elevated Premium and Economy Cabin options. ‘As the airline with the most flights from Alberta, this is an important recovery milestone as we forge new connections between Canada…
easyJet, the UK-based regional airline, has said that it will add an additional aircraft to its Bristol base, bringing the fleet to 17 aircraft for next summer. As announced, an additional A320 aircraft will be based at Bristol Airport for next summer, enabling easyJet to serve 176,00 passengers travelling to and from the UK. This follows the airline’s recent expansion in Barcelona, as well as the seasonal bases of Faro, Malaga and Palma, which will all be receiving additional aircraft for the summer 2022 season. With the addition, over 300,000 flights will now be available across easyJet’s network between April…
Following the reopening of US borders for British holidaymakers, British Airways has announced the resumption of its first US transatlantic flight from Gatwick to Tampa, Florida. The airline’s services to Tampa will operate three times a week. British Airways will also resume flights from Gatwick to holiday-hotspot Orlando on Friday November 19. This is the first time the airline has operated to these destinations, and to the US from Gatwick, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. British Airways is planning on operating to 23 US airports this winter, more than any other transatlantic carrier, with 246…
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has announced that its Summer Sun programmes are now on sale for 2023 from all ten UK bases, after its Leeds Bradford programme were put on sale. With 41 summer sun destinations going on sale from Leeds Bradford Airport, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays is offering access to many destinations in the Canaries, Balearics, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, and Portugal from across its ten UK bases. The announcement comes as Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has started releasing schedules to meet huge pent-up demand as travel restrictions were easing. Jet2 will fly more than 1,350 weekly flights from 10…
Ryanair, the Ireland-based budget airline, has said that it has released its winter 2021/22 ski schedule from UK airports. Celebrating the start of ski season, Ryanair has launched a £29.99 seat sale for travel from January 1 to the end of March 2022. The schedule includes flights to top ski destinations across Europe, including Grenoble, Salzburg, Sofia, Plovdiv and Turin from London Stansted, Birmingham, London Luton, Bristol Manchester, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Whether skiing or not, European mountain ranges offer spectacular scenery and change of pace for a relaxing escape with panoramic views of the snowy mountain tops. To benefit from…
Vueling, an International Airlines Group (IAG) member airline, has announced the launch of its first flight from Newcastle International Airport to the French capital Paris. The low fares airline announced the route at the beginning of October, and will operate flights twice-weekly between Newcastle and Paris Orly from now until the end of March 2022. Flights depart from Newcastle International Airport at 08:15, arriving in Paris Orly at 11:00. On return, flights depart from Paris Orly at 06:55 arriving back at Newcastle International Airport at 07:30. With fares starting from £30.99 one way, and operating every Thursday and Sunday, the…
Ryanair has announced its Summer 2022 schedule from East Midlands Airport with over 30 routes and 130 weekly flights across 31 European destinations from April. With the new schedule, UK families and travellers can now book a summer holiday to European hotspots such as Alicante, Barcelona, Lanzarote, Malaga, Mallorca, Rhodes and Tenerife, among others. Alongside the announcement, Ryanair has launched a £19.99 seat sale for travel until the end of October 2022, which must be booked by midnight Saturday, November 6. Tickets are available to book at www.ryanair.com. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: ‘As Europe’s No.1 airline, we…
Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced on Tuesday, November 2, that Hyatt has completed the previously announced acquisition of Apple Leisure Group(R) (ALG), a luxury resort-management services, travel and hospitality group, from affiliates of each of KKR and KSL Capital Partners, LLC. Hyatt said that it is doubling its global resorts footprint through the addition of ALG’s AMR Collection brand portfolio, which comprises approximately 100 hotels and resorts operating in 10 countries, as well as a pipeline of 24 executed deals in the Americas and Europe. As a result, Hyatt now claims to offer one of the largest collections of…
The UK government’s transport secretary Grant Shapps has today announced that all remaining countries on England’s red list for international travel have been removed. The cabinet minister announced that the Latin American countries of Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela were taken off the list at 4am on November 1. This means arrivals will no longer need to spend 11 nights in a quarantine hotel at a cost of £2,285. Shapps wrote on Twitter: ‘We will keep the red list category in place as a precautionary measure to protect public health and are prepared to add countries…