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Major airline increasing flights to and from UK airports
Singapore Airlines will operate daily flights between Manchester and Singapore from July 13, 2026, up from the current five per week.
Flights to London Gatwick will also increase from three per week to daily services from October 25, 2026.
This will give the airline a total of six daily flights to London, including its four existing Heathrow routes.
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Where else is Singapore Airlines expanding into?
According to TravellingForBusiness , the airline is also increasing services to Milan and Munich.
Milan flights will move from four per week to daily from October 25, 2026.
Additionally, a new three-times-weekly service to Munich will launch on October 26, 2026, bringing the total to 10 weekly flights to the German city.
The increased flight frequencies come as the airline prepares to launch a new route to Madrid via Barcelona.
Starting October 26, 2026, subject to regulatory approval, Singapore Airlines will offer five weekly flights to Madrid.
The service will use the Airbus A350-900 long-haul aircraft and will mark Madrid as the carrier’s 15th European destination.
To support this new service, its current Singapore-Milan-Barcelona route will be discontinued from October 27, 2026.
The airline has confirmed all flights are subject to regulatory approval and that schedules could change based on operational needs.
Tickets for the new Madrid route will go on sale from June 2026.
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Ryanair’s O’Leary urges booze ban
In an interview with The Times newspaper , O’Leary said the problem of unruly travellers was becoming worse, thanks to alcohol.
Ryanair, which flies mainly across Europe, was having to divert almost one aircraft a day because of boozy behaviour by passengers, he pointed out.
“It’s becoming a real challenge for all airlines,” Michael O’Leary said.
“I fail to understand why anybody is serving people at five or six o’clock in the morning,” he told the paper.
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