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COVID-19: Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc across the industry.  Christmas & New Year traffic was severely impacted by UK travel bans imposed at short notice by many EU Govts on 19 & 20 Dec.  These flight bans, and travel restrictions, saw the Group’s Dec. traffic fall by 83% to just 1.9m passengers.  As announced on 7 Jan., Ryanair expects the latest lockdowns and pre-arrival Covid test requirement to materially reduce flight schedules and traffic through to Easter.  The Group’s full-year (FY21) traffic forecast was therefore reduced to “between 26m to 30m” passenger...

Posted 27 January 2021 10:12 British Airline Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks have announced that they will operate flights and city breaks from Manchester Airport to Iceland throughout Summer 2022. Flights will be operated on Mondays and Thursdays between April and October from Manchester Airport to Keflavík Airport. Customers can choose between flight-only with Jet2.com or a package option with Jet2CityBreaks. This comes in direct response to British holidaymakers and also gives Icelandic nationals access to the city of Manchester and the North West of England. Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks star...

Exclusive: More than £115M spent on mothballed Crossrail 2 project More than £115M had been spent on developing Crossrail 2 proposals during the last six years before the project was mothballed in November, NCE can reveal. The money was spent on developing the route for the now mothballed scheme designed to connect south west London with north London. The Department for Transport (DfT) has spent £58.4M on Crossrail 2 development work, while Transport for London (TfL) spend amounts to £57.3M, information obtained via the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act reveals. Of the total £115.8M spen...

Posted 14 December 2020 13:45 Iceland has been a growing tourism destination in the last decade while Keflavik Airport has been strengthening its position as a hub between Europe and North America. In 2018 Keflavik Airport had a record year of almost 10 million passengers but shortly thereafter in March 2019 Wow Air, the airport´s second largest carrier, went out of business and Icelandair had issues with the 737 MAX aircraft like many other airlines. On top of all that Covid-19 has had a considerable impact on the traffic numbers in 2020 as airlines and airports around the world have been...