UK hub Heathrow Airport has cancelled a total of 84 flights, including British Airways, United and Virgin flights, since the storm took hold on Monday.Passengers are being offered the opportunity to rebook or get a refund.And they are being urged to check their flight status before travelling.BA has... 

Merry old England is now more accessible to Filipino business and leisure travellers and Overseas Filipino Workers with Emirates Airline’s new extra service to Manchester.The multi-awarded airline has boosted its route to North West England with the introduction of a third daily non-stop flight to... 

Emirates Airline said on Tuesday that its flights to Glasgow and Newcastle in the UK were impacted due to volcanic ash from the recent eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland.Emirates flight EK027 from Dubai to Glasgow Airport was diverted to Manchester Airport with passengers ferried to destinations... 

Emirates has added another direct flight to Dubai from Manchester Airport, which started on 1 May.The company’s announcement of the extra flights means an increase of 25 per cent in the airline’s capacity from Manchester Airport. The new service will be serviced by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft... 

In another sign of the increasing popularity of Manchester as a destination in its own right, Etihad is planning to increase flights to Manchester to two daily flights from August, rather than the ten flights per week which was previously announced. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier had announced expansion... 

Etihad Airways said it will increase summer frequencies from its hub in Abu Dhabi to the European cities of Paris, Milan, Geneva, Brussels and Manchester.The Gulf carrier will boost Paris flights to 14 a week from 10 to provide a double-daily timetable, it said in a statement today. Manchester in northern... 

Emirates underlined its commitment to Libya today by announcing that it will increase capacity on its Tripoli services by 40%. Starting from the 1st November, Emirates will introduce three additional weekly flights to Tripoli, bringing the total number of weekly flights to 10. The new EK 743 flight will... 

First Choice has announced that it will be operating services to Antalya from Gatwick Airport and Manchester Airport throughout this winter.Due to a strong demand for holidays in the Turkish resort, the travel company will be offering holidays in Antalya in its winter 2010/2011 brochure.Gatwick Airport... 

Emirates is to launch Airbus A380 services to the vibrant city of Hong Kong. Starting on 1 October 2010, Emirates’ A380 will operate daily from Dubai as EK384 via Bangkok with the return flight operating as EK385.Emirates has a total of 12 A380s in service with 78 on order and Hong Kong will become... 

Flights were cancelled from 0700 BST on Monday after both the airport’s fire trucks were out of action because of technical problems.A replacement truck was brought in from another airport on Monday night.Hundreds of passengers on flights to destinations including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester,...