Sunday Times
A “Disaster From Start To Finish” | The current Scottish Government under Nicola Sturgeon has sunk more than £50m of taxpayer money into Prestwick Airport after buying it for a nominal price of £1 in November 2013 from a New Zealand investment company Infratil.

Shell Aviation operates one of the most extensive refuelling networks in the world suppling fuel and lubricants in over 60 countries, its supply refuels an aircraft roughly every 14 seconds. The aviation industry has laughably pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Yesterdays Daily Mail | £7BILLION Master Plan | British Airways is to spend £7billion on a modernisation program after identifying 600+ areas in need of improvement.

Britain’s immigration system is broke, and wide open. Only 21 per cent of 687 “high-risk” flights into London City airport were dealt with face to face, whereas the rules say 100 per cent should be inspected in person and that’s just one airport.

Train travel generates less carbon than battery EV, says rail group data theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The world’s most polluting airport overall is Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It accounted for 20.1m tonnes of CO2 emissions in a single year. Heathrow was the second-worst for climate impact, spewing out 19.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. theguardian.com/environment/20…

This breaking news comes as no surprise, Heathrow was rechristened Thiefrow after its reputation for lax security, luggage theft and scams. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

In 2021 Heathrow was given permission to recover £500 million it had spent on its doomed expansion program with airlines and passengers using the airport picking up the bill.

Coming To Your Local Airport Soon | The majority of flight paths were designed decades ago, at a time when aircraft and navigation was less sophisticated than today. Modernisation of these flightpaths has been underway for a while now and designed to squeeze in more aircraft.

Now that Heathrow has swung back into the black for the first times since the pandemic, bosses are hopeful that the momentum will allow for the return of dividend payments later this year, a company that wants to outsource hundred of jobs, arguing that it needs to save £400m.

Parmjit Dhanda Back Heathrow may well be visiting a job centre first thing on Monday morning, Thomas Woldbye the chief executive Heathrow Airport is understood to have begun disbanding the airports third runway team.

Heathrow’s third runway has been SCRAPPED in favour of a “better not bigger” strategy. David Cameron savaged prime minister Gordon Brown’s support for a third runway at Heathrow in 2008 saying it should be made “better not bigger” prime minister Theresa May said the same in 2009.

British Airways bosses have identified more than 600 areas where the airline can improve after years of decline and a series of IT outages. Senior executives have drawn up a plans for a total overhaul of the airline over the next three years that will cost £7bn to implement.

The best and worst airlines for 2024 named by consumer champion Which? - Jet2 is No.1 for third time and BA is among the worst, an airline that once was so confident of its reputation, it used “the world’s favourite airline’ in its advertising campaigns. dailymail.co.uk/travel/article…

Securing the UK’s borders is a fundamental duty of Government.

Todays Sunday Times | Another profit driven scheme that moving towards a single-pilot operation that poses a significant safety risk. You only have to look at the ongoing safety problems at Boeing.

WARNING | A current review of Royal Jordanian Airways on TripAdvisor warns that ‘Refunds are not their strong point!’ | This airline has not signed up to any air travel Ombudsman scheme that could investigate its failure to repay you.

What’s Your View? In an email four months before the first fatal 737 Max crash, Ed Pierson a senior production manager warned that “exhausted” staff could make dangerous mistakes. In another email he wrote that he was now hesitant about putting his family on any Boeing aircraft.

GUILTY? | In December 2011 Leeds Bradford International Airport landed a £45,000 fine after it admitted four charges of breaching its discharge consent after releasing potentially harmful surface-water into a rural watercourse that ran into the River Aire. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

This is not just a victory for Professor David Miller who was unfairly dismissed from his job at Bristol University, it’s also a victory for pro-Palestinian campaigns across the UK, the Daily Mail was the only media outlet to report on this Employment Tribunal Ruling yesterday.