bmi today confirmed its plans to launch services from Heathrow to Mumbai and from Heathrow to Bangalore, following the recent agreement between the British and Indian governments to allow extra flights between the two countries.

PILOTS who will be qualified to fly passengers for commercial airlines all over Europe are being trained at one of the country’s most successful regional airports.

Virgin Atlantic said today it was planning to introduce special cockpit security measures on its aircraft in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

The British Civil Aviation Authority says there is less than a one in a billion chance Concorde will crash again.

Concorde has been cleared to fly again after the British Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent, the DGAC, agreed to return the aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness, British Airways said today.