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Airline profits are ready to return to growth on the back of lower oil and expanding economies, IATA predicts.

The move follows the repossession of much of its leased fleet, hitting air services in a huge market Norwegian is starting to break into.

Routes to Asia make up half of the airline’s traffic measured in available seat kilometres, so why the decline?

The loan will help Vietnam spread the extremely high growth in visitor numbers it is seeing to other towns and beaches.

An independent assessment is being made to see if a stock exchange listing is viable, the CEO revealed today.

Sources say that Aviator’s owner Accent has mandated DNB to sell the Nordic ground handling company.

Turkish Airlines’ direct flights from Istanbul will bring the first-ever business-class seats to Rovaniemi.

The new Panorama Lounge, which increases Terminal 1 lounge capacity by 40%, has a view of rolling aircraft.

The worldwide car hire giant “shares the same sense of customer satisfaction” as the Scandinavian carrier.

Disney is investing €2bn in an expansion plan to deliver “immersive” Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars attractions.

Numbers just released for the month of November show a declining trend in passenger numbers in Sweden.

The aircraft operated by Precision Air hit a flock of birds just as it was landing at an airport in Tanzania.

US equity firms will take the travel tech company private – but the deal may mean a round of cost cutting for Travelport.

From now on, points can be shared in groups of family and friends, and there’s a new ultimate tier, Lifetime Gold.

Designed on three levels over a cliff at Langisandur beach in Akranes, the new attraction is a hotspot in all weathers.

With lots of meeting rooms, Park Inn by Radisson Oslo Airport Hotel West is Radisson’s third at the airport, ninth in Oslo, 23rd in Norway.

Separate strikes called to coincide with Christmas are causing uproar among management and passengers alike.

Even climbing the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is illegal, let alone appearing to have sex on it.

A consortium including activist investment firm Elliot Management is reportedly in talks to acquire the GDS.

The Nordic hotel operator has signed up New York architects for a new building in a redeveloping industrial area.