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November 24, 2022 1:00 pm ET -
Virgin Atlantic Withdraws Support to London Heathrow’s Third Runway
The plans of London Heathrow Airport — the British capital’s main international airport — to pursue planning permission for a third runway suffered a big setback earlier this week, as Virgin Atlantic, one of the two carriers based at the…
August 5, 2022 3:45 am ET -
International Passenger Demand Triples in June – IATA
The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) has released the passenger data for June showing an unsurprising rise in passenger demand. Using the industry metric of Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) to indicate total passenger traffic IATA’s figures indicate a 76.2% increase…
July 14, 2022 11:26 am ET -
Furious Emirates Rejects Heathrow Airport’s Passenger Cap, Refusing to Cut…
Emirates Airlines has rejected Heathrow airport’s (LHR) request to airlines to stop selling tickets and remove capacity from the U.K.’s hub airport. In a strongly worded statement released on Thursday, the airline says the airport’s demands are a “blatant disregard…
December 13, 2021 6:00 am ET -
Looking to 2022, Heathrow Expects A Long Road To Recovery
With the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic still being felt around the world almost two years since the beginning of the emergency, air passenger numbers are still far from what they used to be in 2019, especially with regards to…
November 8, 2021 10:56 am ET -
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Synchronize Departures to Celebrate U.S.…
More than 600 days after the U..S.'s travel ban was introduced aimed to reduce the spread of coronavirus infections, arch-rivals British Airways and Virgin Atlantic momentarily put rivalries aside as both airlines departed from London Heathrow to New York's John…