The UK is arranging charter flights to return British nationals from Israel once Israeli airspace re-opens, the foreign secretary has said. David Lammy confirmed the government was working with the Israeli authorities to provide flights out of Tel Aviv airport, the number of which will be based on demand. Israeli airspace is currently closed due...
Plans to fast-track the remodelling of the UK’s flight paths could lead to quicker flights and fewer delays for passengers, the government says. Ministers are set to announce the creation of the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS) later which will re-design the routes planes must take over UK airspace – many of which were decided...
A major power cut across large parts of Spain and Portugal has resulted in dozens of flights being cancelled as well as disruption to rail and road networks. Some 96 departing flights from Portuguese airports have been grounded so far, with the country’s capital city airport in Lisbon worst affected. A total of 45 flights...
Ashraf Padanna Thiruvananthapuram Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Vivek Nair Devotees pull ornate wooden chariots bearing temple idols along a 2km-stretch of the airport’s runway For a few hours on a warm April day, jets paused and silence reclaimed the skies above the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern Indian state of...
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and train lines were suspended as gales hit Beijing and northern China on Saturday. By 11:30 local time (03:30 GMT) on Saturday, 838 flights had been cancelled at the capital’s two major airports, according to the Reuters news agency. Wind gusts of up to 93mph (150 kph) – the...
BBC Amsterdam is known as the “Venice of the North” thanks to its myriad of canals Five years after the collapse of airline Flybe, air passengers in the South West will again be able to travel to Amsterdam Schiphol from Exeter Airport. The new service, run by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, began on 30 March,...