Countries in the region shut their airspace and major airports suspended operations entirely

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Ms Atkins was unable to say whether the government had found a carrier for the flights

A Cabinet minister has said the Government’s troubled Rwanda deportation scheme should be running “within weeks”. Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “We want them to take off ...

Airline’s Perth-to-London flights will now stop over in Singapore to avoid Iranian airspace amid fears Tehran will strike Israel

AirTanker revelation comes amid government confidence that deportations will start soon

The union claims strike action could get more severe if the issues aren't resolved

Yellow wind warnings issued while storms also brings hottest day of the year, reaching 20.9C in Suffolk

Some 34,000 people have been left without power due to the severe weather conditions

Virgin Atlantic to restart services in September, almost a year after airlines suspended flights owing to Gaza war

Helicopter flights expected to help 1,600 people leave violence-ravaged country

Lord Alex Carlile, a cross-bench peer, compared the mounting costs of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda to staying at The Ritz in Paris

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The prime minister has maintained hopes of spring flights carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as the Government overturned all attempts by the House of Lords to change to its deportation legislation. The Government saw off 10 amendments from peers to t ...

A Labour MP has compared the cost of the government’s Rwanda scheme to Virgin Galactic “sending six people to space” during a debate in the House of Commons. Neil Coyle urged the Tories to “rethink” the bill ahead of another ...

Nearly 750,000 passengers were disrupted when flights were grounded at UK airports on August 28 last year

Nearly 750,000 passengers were caught up in widespread grounding of flights last August bank holiday

A doctor returning home from holiday has described the “miraculous” moment he helped a woman give birth on a Wizz Air flight. Hassan Khan jumped into action on the trip from Amman, Jordan, to London Luton Airport, on Saturday morning when the cre ...

Alaska Airlines is at the centre of a second aviation plight after a plane arrived at an airport gate with its cargo door open. The cargo hold was stowing passenger’s pets, according to local TV station KOIN, although none of the animals were injur ...

The prime minister is trying to send asylum seekers on flights to Rwanda by Spring