STANDBY Nordic Travel and aviation news for the Nordics

Duties on luxury items cut from 30% to zero in 2013

Technology to cut air pollution from massive engines

Food delivery no longer just for extended-stay hotels

Airline “expects Boeing to take its share of responsibility”

The cities are best for giving someone a first kiss

Tribute to Lord’s Airline, Happy Air, Gandalf Airlines

First of “big three” Gulf carriers to join an alliance

Landing gear malfunctions causing A330 to skid

Launch customer Finnair to operate an all Airbus fleet

Strong demand for $105,000 tour by Abercrombie & Kent

Pattaya court opens, more for Chiang Mai, Koh Samui

Search engine for cheap flight tickets expands

August figures show yield is “on the weak side”

Global “market-based mechanism” to be found

Demand for 5,580 new planes valued at $780 billion

Plan concentrate on roadshows instead of trade fairs

Exchangers get multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, a garden

Recent appointments (to read, click on title above)  

Spanish island Formentera ranks most costly for rooms

Instead it may be better off looking at Africa