Aviation watchdog slams Heathrow’s legal threats over £1.7bn airport charge hike October 26, 2020 The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has hit back at Heathrow Airport over threats that it will take the regulator to court unless it budges on its decision to reject Heathrow’s attempt to increase airport charges by £1.7bn. Earlier this month, the CAA turned down the request from the UK’s largest airport, which wanted to hike [...]
Heathrow owners told to boost funding or risk nationalisation October 25, 2020 The airline watchdog has warned the owners of Heathrow that the airport may be nationalised if they do not provide fresh funding to help it weather the pandemic. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said that without emergency cash from Heathrow’s shareholders, including the sovereign wealth funds of Singapore and Qatar, the airport may face [...]
British Airways owner IAG nosedives into €1.3bn pandemic loss and cuts flights over winter October 22, 2020 British Airways owner IAG nosedives into €1.3bn pandemic loss and cuts flights over winter
Heathrow Airport passenger numbers plummet over 80 per cent in September October 12, 2020 Just 1.3m passengers travelled through Heathrow Airport in September, down 82 per cent on the same month last year, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hammer aviation. With blanket quarantine restrictions limiting long-haul travel, over half the passengers came from destinations in the EU, the figures showed. However, since the government laid out its travel [...]
Heathrow Airport begins third runway Supreme Court appeal October 7, 2020 Heathrow Airport will today begin a Supreme Court appeal over the decision to block the building of a third runway on the grounds that it did not take into account the UK’s climate pledges. Back in February, the Court of Appeal ruled that the government had failed to take the 2015 Paris climate agreement into [...]
The government must adopt airport testing to help rebuild the economy October 2, 2020 Last month, the Prime Minister announced new curbs to control the rising number of coronavirus cases for at least six months – and the prospect of tighter restrictions or a second lockdown still looms large. The outcry was predictable: the measures are confusing, sometimes contradictory, and of course, there are concerns about the impact on [...]
Heathrow passenger numbers plummet more than 80 per cent in August September 11, 2020 Heathrow Airport has reported an 81.5 per cent fall in passengers for August compared with last year and has called on the government again to change quarantine rules. The London-based airport was the busiest in Europe prior to the Covid-19 pandemic but has suffered significantly this year. It said its passengers from North America had [...]
British Airways and Heathrow in row over £500m charge for failed expansion plans September 6, 2020 Heathrow and British Airways (BA) have become embroiled in a row over a proposal to charge airlines £500m for the airport’s failed expansion plans. A consultation recommends allowing the airport the bill airlines for costs related to the third runway incurred until February this year. The plans to build a third runway at Heathrow were [...]
Heathrow Airport outlines pay cuts as it warns of job losses September 3, 2020 Heathrow Airport has opened talks with unions over a round of pay cuts that will affect roughly half of its 4,700 frontline workers. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s largest airport has lost over £1bn since March, and is now looking to make pay cuts of 15 to 20 per cent. If [...]
Government accused of ‘overseeing demise’ of UK aviation September 3, 2020 Ministers have been accused of overseeing the demise of UK aviation as the sector braces for thousands of job losses and further travel restrictions. Derek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports, which runs Southampton, Aberdeen and Glasgow, said the sector was suffering more job losses than the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s. [...]