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The Scandinavian airline expects to do well this year after a strong quarter – but also apologises for the many recent delays.

Passengers describe how they were kept on the tarmac for 11 hours with little information and almost nothing to eat or drink.

Flights will be operated from Berlin Tegel to New York JFK, Boston and Toronto starting from June 2019.

The low-cost carrier is making more city pairs, this time Billund-Kiev and Copenhagen-Lviv.

Avinor reverses a negative first-half result. And there's also news about Haugesund, Fagernes and Oslo airports.

Lapland Hotels will take over operations at the Cumulus Kuopio Station, one of three to go as part of the Restel deal.

Danish Air Transport has bought a 60% stake in Nordic Regional Airlines, also known as Norra, from Finnair.

The rising tide of cruise tourists flocking daily into the coastal town of Honningsvåg is starting to cause havoc.

The Norwegian tour operator Amisol Travel has set up a direct route from Oslo to Sharm el Sheikh.

The airline continues to build capacity on its routes to Tokyo, Nagoya, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, for summer 2019.

The Austrian low-cost carrier will acquire additional Airbus planes as Ryanair buys a 75% stake in the company.

A self-driving minivan equipped with sensors made four round-trips a day this week along a busy road.

The Icelandic airline will be flying between cities in the United States and India via Keflivik from December.

The Dubai-based carrier is raising its capacity higher for Stockholm than for Copenhagen this winter.

Tomorrow, a seven-hour climb up Norway's highest mountain will be broadcast minute-by-minute.

A couple died of respiratory failure, but Peter Fankhauser says there is no evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Expecting a 24% rise in passengers this year, the airport has signed a deal with Airport Coordination UK.

A large number of vessels are being sold on to other lines or for different 'careers' this year.

Björgólfur Jóhannsson is stepping down as the airline warns its results will be “worse than projected”.

The airline admits that it overestimated demand for the season, and it has also suffered from contractor crew shortages.