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Soon the holiday season will again be upon us and the numbers of leisure travellers descending on our airports will peak. You know the feeling all too well: excitement; finally having the time to make a journey you’ve looked forward to; visiting relatives in far-off countries; a long-awaited hiking break; …

More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine. Flight 2708 was preparing to take off from Haneda airport en route to Seoul on Friday morning, said officials. The engine was sprayed with foam …

Experts following the disappearance of MH370 say it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane. A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to say he recently found the fragment on the Macaneta peninsula. The authorities have been notified. The …

A Turkish Airlines flight, which was bound to go to London, had to make an emergency landing at Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade. The flight took off from Istanbul airport on 26th May, 2016. After the Boeing 777 flew from Istanbul, one of the air hostesses found an unattended mobile …

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United Airlines will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending the carrier’s only route to Africa because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulties in collecting money from tickets sold in that country. The daily route from Houston to Lagos had underachieved for years but was kept alive because …

ICAO launches homepage for the 2016 ICAO World Aviation Forum! This event is designed for highly placed government officials responsible for transport and infrastructure, finance, economy, and tourism; and key industry and financial partners. The objective of IWAF 2016 is to identify needs, facilitate the funding and financing required to …

Talk about a throwback Thursday! Seventy years ago this week, Montreal was selected as the permanent headquarters of the Organization, by 27 votes; the other candidates cities obtained respectively: Paris 9 votes, Geneva 4 votes, a city not named in China 1 vote. The choice of Montreal, proposed by Chile, …

Dozens of flights from the UK and Ireland have been cancelled as air traffic controllers join the growing strike action in France. The industrial action is in response to the dispute over changes to employment law. The country is being brought to a standstill with strikes affecting the railways, fuel …

Industrial action over labour law reforms is gripping France nationwide, with oil refineries, nuclear power stations and transport hubs affected. Motorways and bridges were blocked and flights delayed, and 16 arrests were made as a result of clashes in Paris. Prime Minister Manuel Valls insists the reforms will not be …