By Murdo Morrison2021-02-01T11:28:00+00:00
It is not the kind of good-news story we saw much of in 2020 – an aviation company expanding to tap an area of the market where demand for services is outstripping supply. However, that is exactly what Welsh maintenance, repair and overhaul firm Caerdav – founded by Iron Maiden front-man Bruce Dickinson – announced in October it was doing by establishing a cargo conversion facility for Boeing 737s at its site near Cardiff, which it hopes to have up and running this quarter.
Source: Caerdav
left) and Joachim Jones took the decision to move into cargo conversions last year
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Stansted 15 defendants have their terror convictions quashed (Image by https://freedomnews.org.uk/)
The activists who blocked a deportation flight on Stansted Airport in 2017 had their convictions quashed today in the Court of Appeal.
The appeal judgement states that ‘The appellants should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence under section 1(2)(b) of the 1990 Act because their conduct did not satisfy the various elements of the offence. There was, in truth, no case to answer’.
In March 2017, 15 activists performed a direct action at Stansted Airport, blocking a Titan Airways aircraft hired by the UK government for the purpose of deporting people.
The World’s Most Remote Airports
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Flying is almost always an adventure. However, to get on a plane to destinations otherwise unreachable but for days on end crossing the ocean on a ship is something truly special. Let’s take a look at where some of the world’s most remote runways are located.
LATAM operates a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to the world’s most remote airport. Photo: Vincenzo Pace | JFKJets.com
Mataveri International Airport, Rapa Nui
Defined by the distance from another airport, the world’s most remote airfield is Mataveri International Airport – also known as Isla de Pascua Airport (IPC). It is located in Hanga Roa, the main town and capital of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island in eastern Polynesia. The closest other airport is Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL) in Santiago, Chile, and is 3,759 km away.
By Lewis Harper2021-01-27T11:54:00+00:00
The chief executives of several UK airlines have issued a joint call for the country’s government to outline an “urgent roadmap” for the reopening of air travel, while at the same time demanding an aviation support package “that recognises the urgency and scale of the danger now facing our sector”.
Their letter to UK prime minister Boris Johnson, dated 26 January and issued via industry body Airlines UK, comes amid reports his government will today announce a requirement that travellers from certain ‘high-risk” countries must quarantine in hotels on arrival in the country, at their own expense.
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