Scotland

The final tranche of funding for hydrogen-electric propulsion startup ZeroAvia came from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

The company plans to launch the first of its forestry monitoring spacecraft in 2025 after supplier issues delayed the mission from this year.

The Shetland Islands’ SaxaVord spaceport has secured a range control license from the UK’s aviation regulator in another step toward the first orbital launches from the site.

German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.

Britain’s Orkney Islands are set to become the first region of the UK to have an uncrewed aircraft system mail delivery service.

Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.

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

Subsidized routes, ADP taxes and London slots are all addressed in the new report from the Union Connectivity Review.

The London Heathrow-based carrier joins JV partner Delta Air Lines in flying transatlantic from Edinburgh.

The subsidized routes are part of the UK government’s effort to restore regional, domestic connectivity.

The Canadian carrier will return to the Scottish market during the summer 2022 season with two new routes from Toronto and the resumption of flights to Glasgow from Nova Scotia.

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.

The carrier’s first international flights from the Scottish capital in its 37-year history will begin in December.

Emirates is returning to the Scottish city after Dubai moved to the UK’s ‘amber’ list.

Flights are being added from Washington and Houston following the removal of quarantine restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers.

The LCC is planning a robust schedule from the Scottish capital during both the summer and winter seasons.

Jet2.com’s summer 2022 schedule includes a number of new routes, including Edinburgh-Skiathos.

Loganair’s current schedule will provide over 1,000 flights each week across 46 routes, offering unrivalled connectivity for Scotland and with operations stretching as far afield as London, Norwich, Manchester, Dublin, and Bergen in Norway using a fleet of 28 aircraft. It has almost 300 flights each week to and from Glasgow, and is the largest operator at key airports throughout the Highlands & Islands including Inverness, Sumburgh, Kirkwall and Stornoway.

Highlighting the value of aviation and enhanced network connectivity, an economic forecast has revealed that by 2020 Scotland’s busiest airport could be worth up to £1.6 billion GVA per year, and could support more than 40,000 Scottish jobs.

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.

Scotland’s largest airports made a joint submission yesterday (28th October 2014) to the Smith Commission calling for Air Passenger Duty (APD) to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.