Thick fog across parts of Southern England on Monday 23 January is affecting some flights to and from London’s airports this morning. For safety reasons Air Traffic Control is having to allow greater space between landing aircraft and this in turn will result in a reduced number of aircraft being allowed to land each hour. Additional information Heathrow (LHR) –Flights are subject to delay …
British Airways – Threatened industrial action – 19-21 January 2017
The trade union Unite has announced that it intends to hold a further set of industrial action involving one of five cabin crew fleets on Thursday 19, Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January 2017 The contingency plans, which were successful during the previous two days of industrial action, will once again ensure that all of our customers will travel to …
Development work at Edinburgh Airport
Edinburgh airport have commenced construction of additional aircraft parking stands which will take place over a period of seven months from January 2017. As a result of these works, there may be gate changes and some arriving or departing customers will require coaching between the main terminal and the aircraft. The following flights will be impacted: BA1454 – London to …
Proposed industrial action 10 – 11 January 2017
All British Airways customers will be able to fly to their destinations on Tuesday January 10 and Wednesday January 11 despite proposed industrial action by Unite. All flights to and from London Gatwick will operate as normal All flights to and from London City will operate as normal The vast majority of flights to and from London Heathrow will operate as …
Threatened industrial action announced
The trade union Unite has announced that it intends to hold industrial action involving one of five of BA’s cabin crew fleets on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 January 2017. BA have expressed their disappointed that Unite has once again chosen to target their customers and are looking to ensure that all of our customers, with bookings on those two days, will …
Travel News – Pakistan Flight PK661
Pakistan flight #PK661 has crashed in Pipplian near Havelian in Pakistan. Reports of more than 40 passengers on board the aircraft. The flight departed from Chitral around 3:30pm today and was expected to land at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport at around 4:40pm. The plane caught fire and crashed near Pipplian, a suburban village of Havelian near Abbottabad.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7
Following the recent incidents concerning the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phone, the list of airlines banning the device increases almost on a daily basis and now AMTRAK in the USA have banned the device from being carried on any of its rail services. We urge all travellers to check with their carrier before travel to find out the …
New BA Route from London to New Orleans
New British Airways route to New Orleans British Airways will fly to New Orleans (MSY) from 27th March 2017. The Louisiana city, known as ‘The Big Easy’, will be served four times per week from London LHR Terminal 5. This will be the 1st direct service to operate from Europe to the city famous for Mardi Gras and jazz music. …
Travel Disruption – Eurostar/Eurotunnel
Due to an electricity fault, the tunnel is currently closed with delays of up to 9 hours.
Travel Advice – Greece
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have updated the travel advice for Greece with an update to the Summary – Greek trade unions have announced a series of strikes that could cause disruption to a number of domestic flights until 8 October and international and domestic flights on 9-10 and 12-13 October. The relevant extract of the advice is below …