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Heathrow has told the government its long-delayed third runway will not open before 2039, four years later than the 2035 target it set only last year, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham stops short of endorsing the £49 billion expansion.
A flight-processing glitch at Britain's air traffic control provider cancelled roughly 2,000 flights over two days, and Ryanair and Wizz Air are now openly calling for NATS chief Martin Rolfe to quit after the third major system collapse in three years.
The UK Supreme Court has shut the door on the last legal challenge to London Luton Airport's £2.4 billion expansion, clearing the way for the airport to grow from 19 million to 32 million passengers a year.
easyJet will end all flying from Leeds Bradford in early January 2027, closing a presence that began in 2010. Because it was only the airport's fifth-largest operator, the retreat says more about how thoroughly Jet2 and Ryanair have taken the airport than about Yorkshire demand.