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WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- A Taiwanese China Airlines plane burst into flames after landing on Japan's island of Okinawa but all 165 people on board are safe, officials say. All the passengers and crew had just been evacuated when the fire broke out on the Boeing 737-800 at Naha.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 14, 2007 @ 10:08am neoform

BBC News -- Passengers are being warned of possible chaos at airports next month as some airlines seek to charge extra air tax for tickets bought months ago... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said. "Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying after the attendant allegedl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:35pm neoform

BBC News -- There are mounting calls for Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport to close in the wake of Tuesday's Tam Airlines crash in which some 200 people died. The airport should shut "until its security conditions are examined", Brazil's Federal Public Ministry said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- All Indonesian airlines including national carrier Garuda are to be banned from the European Union. An updated blacklist of unsafe airlines also includes two new operators from Angola and Ukraine. Indonesian carriers do not currently fly to Europe,.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

BBC News -- A strike at India's state-run domestic airline that caused flight chaos across the country has ended, officials say. Some 12,000 ground staff at Indian Airlines had been on strike demanding better wages and career prospects. The were angered at a go.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 7:48pm neoform

News.com.au -- BRITISH Airways lost more luggage than any other major European airline last year, according to new figures. For every 1000 passengers on the British carrier, 23 bags went astray - the worst performance of the 24 airlines who are members of the Associa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 11:50pm neoform

This Is London -- Britain's major airlines and travel operators are preparing to sue Gordon Brown over his controversial 'stealth tax' on air travel which threatens to create chaos at airport check-in desks from February 1... Read More