Tag: Falklands airlink

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 12:41 UTC

  UK/Falklands air bridge sets two new records with the A330-200

  

  A new capability to fly directly from the United Kingdom to the Falkland Islands has been achieved. The modified aircraft, G-VYGM, took its maiden flight on Tuesday 2 June 2020, as part of the scheduled South Atlantic Airbridge and returned directly to the UK on Friday, setting two new world records in the process.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Falklands/Chile commercial airlink will remain suspended until June

  

  While the Atlantic Airbridge between the Falkland Islands and Brize Norton continues to service normally and is crucial for sending swab tests to labs in the UK, the two commercial flights to the Islands, one from Chile and the most recent from Brazil remain suspended.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air-link will be serviced with a Boeing 767, Argentine sources

  

  The Argentine media has revealed some additional details about the coming weekly airlink between the Falkland Islands and the South American continent, scheduled to begin “sometime in the second half of November”.