Vueling Airlines

Vueling Airlines | March 21, 2016

Vueling Airlines is set for further expansion from Manchester Airport this summer adding a new route to Tenerife. The budget Spanish airline will operate one flight a week to the Canary Island during July and August and two flights a week in September and October. Vueling, part of International Airlines Group (IAG), already offers flights to Barcelona and from June will also serve Alicante and Rome....

Vueling Airlines | July 06, 2016

President of the Catalan low-cost airline Vueling, Javier Sánchez-Prieto admitted that the company failed to give explanations regarding the numerous flight delays and cancellations that passengers travelling from or to Barcelona El Prat airport had to suffer throughout the last few weeks. “We have been really focused on trying to solve it but I must admit we have failed”, he said this Wednesday in an interview with Catalan newspaper ‘Ara’. “Honestly and bein...

Vueling Airlines | July 05, 2016

The airline, part of part of British Airways and Iberia's parent group IAG, said it cancelled 66 flights on Tuesday because of a strike by French air traffic controllers. All but two of the flights that were cancelled were set to arrive or depart from airports in France, including Orly and Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Vueling is not the only low-cost airline that says it has been affected by the strike by French air traffic controllers....

Simple Flying | January 17, 2020

Canadian operator WestJet is planning a new transatlantic service. The Boeing 737 operated flight would be used to connect Canada’s Halifax to Manchester in the United Kingdom. The seasonal flight is set to operate over the 2020 summer period. WestJet is launching its third route from Halifax to the United Kingdom this summer. Accompanying its existing routes to London and Glasgow, the new connection will be operated by a Boeing 737 aircraft. Launching in June, the route will remain in ope...