United Kingdom (UK)

By Victoria Moores
Resumption is planned following the COVID-19 crisis.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The UK government will spend up to £75 million ($93 million) to repatriate citizens with the help of easyJet, Jet2.com, Titan Airways and Virgin Atlantic.
Airports & Networks

By Aaron Karp
The airport is taking the measures to as the UK goes into a lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
UK leisure airline Jet2.com has suspended its flying program until at least May 1.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Guernsey-based Aurigny has become the latest airline to take over routes previously operated by Flybe.
Airports & Networks

By Aaron Karp
The first of the services will commence on March 16.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Following the insolvency of Flybe, Routes analyses the potential impact of the regional carrier’s demise on the UK and wider European market.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Nouvelair will offer its first scheduled flights from the UK to Tunisia this summer, replacing some of the capacity lost by the failure of Thomas Cook.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Air Senegal has chosen London Stansted for its first ever UK service.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Weekly capacity between New York and Manchester during the summer is set to drop by a third compared with 2019, but United Airlines is awaiting price stabilization before deciding whether to expand.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
British Airways and Royal Air Maroc have signed a new codeshare agreement ahead of the Moroccan airline’s entry into the oneworld alliance.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
EL AL Israel Airlines is resuming service to London Stansted after more than a decade away.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
British Airways will start flights between Newquay and London Heathrow this summer.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Restrictions on flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh have been lifted after almost four years, paving the way for airlines to relaunch routes to the Egyptian holiday resort.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
100 years after the first Australia to UK flight, what impact would a direct London-Sydney flight have on Qantas' network?
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Routes between the UK and US - currently operating under the US-EU open skies agreement - will continue to enjoy the same access following the conclusion of a new deal between the two countries.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Heathrow’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye has vowed to create the “best connected hub airport in the world” after MPs in the UK backed controversial plans to build a third runway.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Plans for a third runway at London Heathrow have moved a step closer, paving the way for thousands more flights each year at the UK’s busiest airport.
Airports & Networks

By Routes Content Team
Hainan Airlines looks set to increase the number of services it operates to the UK and Ireland following a series of new route applications.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Low-cost carrier Ryanair is to further expand its capacity from Manchester Airport this summer with the launch of ten new routes. It comes as new research reveals the UK airports which have enjoyed the largest passenger growth over the past year, with Manchester among the front-runners.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
A deal has been agreed for a 50 percent rise in the number of flights allowed between the UK and China, a move which is set to increase the number of routes from regional airports.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Five years on from Willie Walsh’s “knee in the groin” wager with Sir Richard Branson that Virgin Atlantic would disappear, the airline is still flying high. Chief executive Craig Kreeger lifts the lid on why its new tie-up with Air France-KLM is the next logical step amid fierce competition on transatlantic routes.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
IAG, the owner of British Airways and Aer Lingus, is to expand its presence at Gatwick Airport after striking a deal to buy the majority of slots vacated by the collapse of Monarch. Hungarian carrier Wizz Air is also set to take Monarch's former slots at London Luton.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Monarch’s administrators have won a High Court appeal to sell its airport slots at London Gatwick and London Luton.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Wizz Air is to base up to seven aircraft in the UK over the next two years as chief executive József Váradi readies the Hungarian low-cost carrier for a period of industry uncertainty.
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