QATAR AIRWAYS VOTED BUSINESS AIRLINE OF THE YEAR FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

Qatar Airways was last week awarded ‘Business Airline of the Year’ for the second consecutive year at the prestigious UK Business Travel Awards 2015 held in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Last year Qatar Airways started a direct service from Edinburgh to Doha using the brand new Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” and, from the 1st May 2015, this service will …

Wizz Air to launch Aberdeen – Gdansk flight route

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new scheduled service between Aberdeen and the Polish city of Gdansk. The new service will start from Aberdeen International Airport on 19 June as a twice weekly service, on Monday and Friday, and will be operated with a 180 seat Airbus A320 aircraft. The flight will …

Strong performance in December sees Edinburgh Airport break 10m barrier for 2014

Edinburgh Airport has topped off another record-breaking year with over 10 million passengers travelling through its terminal in 2014. Last year Edinburgh saw more passengers than any other Scottish airport, marking a 4% increase on 2013’s passenger figures. A total of 10,174,684 people flew in and out of Scotland’s busiest airport over the last 12 months making last year the …

Second daily Emirates A380 confirmed from Manchester

Manchester airport confirmed today that Emirates is to deploy a second Airbus A380 superjumbo to Dubai from next month. The move from February 1 will see the airline’s capacity rise by 13% on the route. It will see Emirates run two A380s and one Boeing 777 a day to its Dubai hub from Manchester and new means that  half of …