Aer Lingus, the flag-carrier airline of Ireland, is setting up a base at London’s Gatwick Airport and launching routes to Munich, Zurich, Nice and Vienna as well as a few more leisure-focused routes in April 2009.
The British Airports Authority (BAA), the owner and operator of seven airports in the United Kingdom and also the operator of several other airports worldwide, may be fined up to £9 million a year if it does not improve customer service levels at London’s Stansted Airport.
AirAsia X, the long-haul budget airline based in Malaysia, will start services between Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and London’s Stansted Airport at a price as low as £99 one way.
Air France, the biggest airline of Europe, will discontinue from November 6, 2008, its flights between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the United States, and London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR).
A business group has recommended that the British Aviation Authority (BAA), the owner of London’s Heathrow airport, scrap about 5,000 flights a year in order to relieve congestion.