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Friday, 05 February 2016

BBC News

• Airports group records busiest yearScotland's regional airports group says 2015 was its busiest year yet in its 30-year history.

The Guardian

• John Holland-Kaye: 'Expanding Heathrow has always been the only answer'Airport’s chief executive is not frustrated by the third runway impasse, he insists, but ‘working on being a good neighbour’If not quite digging a third runway, Heathrow was at least expecting by now to know whether the government would allow it. But if the airport’s chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, feels like banging his head on Westminster’s walls after years of its sputtering process, he’s not showing it.“Like Alan B’Stard,” he remarks, as he adopts the pose of Rik Mayall’s fictional MP beside parliament.

The Herald

• Police: 'unwitting' airlines helping gangsters by exporting illegal catchesAirlines have received police warnings that they are unwittingly aiding gangsters by carrying illegal shellfish out of Scotland.

Liverpool Echo

• Bright skies beckon at Liverpool John Lennon Airport as operators buy into strategy Airport celebrates strong start to year with new routes, and more to follow, says chief executive Andrew Cornish

London Evening Standard

• Zika virus: Planes landing in UK to be sprayed with insecticide Planes landing in the UK from areas affected by Zika are to be sprayed with insecticide as part of the Government's response to the outbreak.

Wales Online

• When this student's flight home was cancelled without explanation she wrote British Airways a brilliant letter Kate Spalding's flight was cancelled with no explanation and just over an hour's notice

Aviation Industry

• Singapore Airlines 3Q net profit up 35% Singapore Airlines (SIA) group reported a net profit rise 35% to S$275 million ($196 million) for the three months through Dec. 31, 2015, compared to a net profit of S$202.6 million in the year-ago quarter. read more
• Lufthansa rejects GTMC claims sales hit by GDS feeAirline hits back at figures that showed a drop in market share following introduction of DCC