Aberdeen International Airport

The parent company of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports is being sold in a deal worth more than £1.53 billion ($2 billion).

The regional airline was the sole carrier on around a quarter of its route network, but the impact of its collapse will be far less severe than when the previous incarnation of Flybe failed almost three years ago.

A prior incarnation of the UK regional collapsed in March 2020.

LCY will become the second London airport from which BA serves Aberdeen from.

The airline will face competition on both of the new services being launched this winter.

The UK airline will serve 12 destinations this winter, including resuming flights to Newquay.

Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

The Scottish carrier has unveiled its summer 2022 schedule, which includes the restart of several international services as well as frequency increases on scores of UK domestic routes.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers' networks.

The additional services include its first-ever route to Belfast City Airport.

International routes will largely remain dormant until the 2022 summer season, CEO Stein Nilsen says.

The carrier returned to MME in February after an absence of almost three years.

Three new routes are being launched and capacity will be added to popular existing links.

The Scottish airline is adding more UK and Ireland routes with five services from Teesside International.

After a deal was agreed that could pave the way for Flybe to restart operations, Routes looks at what became of the carrier’s UK network since its failure.

Latvian airline airBaltic is restoring a direct seasonal route to Greek island Rhodes.

KLM is restarting routes from a number of UK cities as it seeks to rebuild its pre-COVID network during summer 2020.

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The first of the services will commence on March 16.

The flights from Aberdeen and Edinburgh to London Heathrow will be Flybe’s first ever scheduled flights into the UK’s largest airport and the world’s second largest international gateway, and will complement the carrier’s well-established London City flights from the two Scottish airports.

Airlines and airports are always happy to get involved on April Fool’s Day, and this year it has been no different. Now the clock has struck twelve, and the pranks are no longer, we’ve drilled down the top April Fool’s jokes in the aviation industry this year.

The year round, four times weekly service to Aberdeen is Icelandair’s second gateway in Scotland, and sixth in the UK. The new route was announced after the city successfully hosted last year's Routes Europe.

Over the past four years easyJet has grown its capacity in Scotland by 20 per cent and following this year’s network in Scotland it now operates 62 routes from the country to points across Europe. Its Edinburgh network is its largest in Scotland and now stands at 36 routes.

The new route will be operated by the group’s Air Iceland subsidiary and will run four-times-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, operated by Bombardier Q400 aircraft in two-class configuration.

TUI UK’s summer 2016 growth continues the UK’s largest holiday company’s strategy to ensure customers across the UK can fly from their local airport and stay at the best hotels in some of the most exciting destinations.