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Friday, 19 October 2018

BBC News

• Ryanair to launch new routes from CardiffCardiff Airport has announced new routes for its summer 2019 schedule.

Times Online

• Runway Revival [Subscription]The proposal to make full use of Gatwick airport’s second runway is to be welcomed. At present the runway is used only as a standby, when the main runway is out of action. Regulations decree that the two are too close together to be used simultaneously. Hence the plan to widen the second one, placing its centre line the legal minimum distance from its neighbour. The shift required is only a matter of 12 metres, but such is the need for increased airport capacity in southeast England that even relocating a strip of asphalt by this tiny distance should pay big dividends.

City AM

• Gatwick Airport publishes proposals to use emergency runwayGatwick Airport has published controversial plans to use its standby runway to increase capacity in a move that has been branded as "subterfuge" by campaigners.
• Photo of Ryanair crew sleeping on airport floor was staged, airline saysA photograph of Ryanair crew sleeping on an airport floor was staged, footage from the airline showed today.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Our in-depth interview with Stansted's chief executive Ken O'TooleAlthough most of the 93,000 passengers passing through Stansted’s doors tomorrow for the start of their half term holidays will be blissfully unaware of it, the next few weeks will be a crucially defining moment in the history of Stansted Airport.

Aviation Industry

• Wi-Fi connectivity heading into ‘highly volatile’ times US-based connectivity specialist Air Informatics president & managing director Bruce Jackson believes that airline Wi-Fi connectivity is facing two to three years of volatility. read more
• Greybull becomes majority shareholder in MAEL UK-based MRO provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has finalized the terms of its new ownership structure, with a transaction in which UK investment group Greybull Capital becomes the owner of the company. read more
• Air France reportedly nearing pay agreement with unions Air France is nearing a deal with its workforce in a months-long pay dispute following negotiations between the new Air France-KLM Group CEO Benjamin Smith and the French airline's unions.