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BBC News
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A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000.
The prosecutor also recommended similar charges against two Continental employees and two French officia..
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CNN
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Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scraped its wing on the ground during a landing attempt in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend, an airline spokesman said Monday. The plane recovered and landed safely the second time around, the spokes..
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BBC News
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A senior Vatican cardinal has inaugurated a low-cost charter flight service which aims to transport Catholic pilgrims to holy sites.
The first flight from Rome to Lourdes in France took off at 1130 (0930 GMT), using a small charter airline owned by the..
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FOX News
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The six Muslim leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight last fall after passengers thought they were acting suspiciously will not include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday...
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BBC News
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An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight.
The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and..
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CNN
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has vowed to return home to face criminal charges against her, has a ticket to fly back but was told by her airline that she cannot board, she said on Thursday.
Hasina arrived in London from Washingto..
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BBC News
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Hundreds of passengers have been left stranded after the Hong Kong airline Oasis stopped flying and applied to go into liquidation.
Oasis first flew in October 2006, offering flights from London Gatwick to Hong Kong for as little as 1,000 Hong Kong dol..
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BBC News
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A Moscow court has found the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky guilty of embezzling millions of dollars from the Russian national airline Aeroflot.
Mr Berezovsky, who has political asylum in Britain, controlled the airline in the 1990s.
The court..
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Washington Post
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The United States and the European Union have agreed to expand a security program that shares personal data about millions of U.S.-bound airline passengers a year, potentially including information about a person's race, ethnicity, religion and health...
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BBC News
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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..
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FOX News
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A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat, airline officials said.
A passenger spotted the white mouse running on the floor of the plane on an initia..
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News.com.au
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THE proposed Qantas takeover is facing another challenge - a push by the union covering a third of the airline's staff for a six per cent pay rise under a new enterprise bargaining agreement.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) is seeking to buck a tre..
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BBC News
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As politicians outline rival visions of a green agenda, an airline has angered environmental campaigners for flying an empty passenger plane in order to keep hold of its landing slots.
The British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) round-trip flights between..
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Stuff.co.nz
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Human rights advocates say a New Zealand Muslim was publicly humiliated by an airline, after he was escorted from an aircraft when staff tagged him a security risk...
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