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Ryanair are to not serve Northern Ireland from 31 October 2021, after axing City of Derry in January 2021 and curtailing its 8 Belfast City routes on 12 September 2021 (previously on sale until 30 October 2021). Ryanair are now leaving a third airport in Northern Ireland - Belfast International, where it serves six routes. This leaves the country without a direct service with the low cost carrier. Ryanair have been in the Northern Ireland market for over a decade and have served a variety of domestic and international routes during that time, however, the airline are not the largest in Northern Ireland - with easyJet serving more routes and passengers than Ryanair. However, 2021 has been a turbulent year for Ryanair in the Northern Ireland market. How has 2021 impacted Ryanair's Northern Ireland operation? Ryanair ended its City of Derry to Edinburgh and Liverpool routes in early 2021 due to a row with the UK's Civil Aviation Authority regarding Brexit-related policy.  Edinburg...

It is now 18 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the UK-US aviation market has changed beyond imagination. Norwegian Air, who's largest base was London Gatwick, has given up on long haul flying (1), Delta Airlines cancelled plans to serve London Gatwick and Manchester, American Airlines and United Airlines left Manchester, British Airways cut two US routes from London Heathrow and Virgin Atlantic consolidated its London operation at London Heathrow. Its fair to say, the sector was torn apart in 2020 and 2021, however, with the vaccine rollout, borders reopening and increasing pressure to return to normality, the sector is demonstrating signs of recovering and new players entering the market. Since 2 August 2021, the United Kingdom has allowed vaccinated visitors from the United States to enter the country without quarantine, with a pre-departure and Day 2 test only. This allowed airlines including British Airways, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic to record surge ...

Wizz Air announced a new route from Tirana to Liverpool, with year round flights commencing 10 December 2021. The announcement was one of 4 new routes from Tirana, where Wizz Air plan to base an additional aircraft in the Albanian capital. This will be the only UK - Albania flight outside of London. Wizz Air are to operate the route three times weekly and is the third Wizz Air new route in Liverpool in 2021 - following Burgas in Bulgaria and Rome Fiumicino in Italy. In total, Wizz Air will operate 14 routes from Liverpool in 2021. Flight timings: W6 6641 TIA 1950-2215 LPL (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) W6 6642 LPL 2250-0255+1 TIA (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) *Frequencies and timings were accurate at the time of publication Photo: https://wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/about-us/press-office/aircraft

Virgin Atlantic have announced four new routes from across the United Kingdom, including a return to Edinburgh - as the long haul carrier looks to capitalise on the increase in passengers to the Caribbean and leisure destinations. Today (11 August 2021), Virgin Atlantic announced four new routes to start in Winter 2021*. These are: - London Heathrow to St Lucia - 3x weekly flights starting 18 December 2021 - Manchester to Montego Bay - 3x weekly flights starting 6 November 2021 - Edinburgh to Bridgetown (Barbados) - 2x weekly flights starting 5 December 2021 - Edinburgh to Orlando International - 2x weekly flights starting 30 March 2022 London Heathrow to St Lucia: Virgin Atlantic cut its London Gatwick to St Lucia route in 2020 after the  Saint Lucia Tourism Authority said it “could not meet the proposals from Virgin Atlantic” which led to the decision to withdraw its UK service(1). This is Virgin Atlantic's only route into St Lucia and enlarges the long haul carrier's n...

Ryanair have announced 2 aircraft and 12 new routes from Newcastle. Over recent months, Jet2 and TUI Airways have announced an additional aircraft for Summer 2022, and with Ryanair launching a two aircraft base - it demonstrates the increased demand and competition from the North East Airport. In September 2020, easyJet closed its 3 aircraft base in Newcastle - leaving the airport with no based low cost carrier. Ryanair has filled the void and allowed the airport to have three dominant airlines competition in the Newcastle leisure market. Ryanair will launch one of the 12 routes on 31 October 2021, with three weekly flights to Kraków in Poland. This is Ryanair's third Polish route from Newcastle - joining Gdańsk and Wrocław. From 27 March 2022, Ryanair will base its two aircraft in Newcastle and launch 11 further routes - Chania (Greece), Fuerteventura (Spain), Gran Canaria (Spain), Ibiza (Spain), Lanzarote (Spain), Menorca (Spain), Milan Bergamo (Italy), Paphos (Cyprus), Riga (Lat...

Virgin Atlantic have announced a new route from London Heathrow to Nassau with flights commencing 20 November 2021. This is Virgin Atlantic's only route into The Bahamas and enlarges the long haul carrier's network to 8 Caribbean destinations - which has seen St Vincent Argyle added to its network in 2021. Additionally, this is the first new route announcement since the St Vincent announcement in November 2020. Nassau currently has a direct flight to London Heathrow with British Airways, currently operating three times weekly. Virgin Atlantic would therefore provide competition on the route. Furthermore, Virgin Atlantic are the only second European airline to fly to Nassau and subject to flight timings, could offer connections at its London Heathrow hub on to other European cities via its codeshare partners including Amsterdam and Amsterdam. Virgin Atlantic plan to operate two weekly flights between London Heathrow and Nassau for Winter 2021. Flight timings will be updated in d...