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An ‘education programme’ line-up has been confirmed for the Baltic Sea Region MICE exhibition Convene 2019.

The large-scale infrastructure projects come despite warnings about “crazy” tourism growth in Vietnam.

The aircraft type is the right plane in a variety of ways for a new venture by aviation entrepreneur David Neeleman.

SAS and Finnair are in the top 20 safest airlines, while the ten safest low-cost carriers and a few of the least safe airlines are also named.

Europe’s airlines face a chilly winter, Bloomberg writes, with Nordic carriers in particular exposed to brutal headwinds.

The Finnish carrier will deploy a second widebody aircraft on its busy Helsinki-London route – and add a seventh daily frequency.

As we start a new year, here’s a chance to look back on the ten most read stories on Standby Nordic during 2018.

But there has been “enormous progress in terms of safety in the past two decades”, experts stress.