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“This is the most difficult day in the history of WOW air,” the airline’s chief executive Skuli Mogensen admits.

A human heart is left on board a Southwest Airlines flight, forcing the pilot on the following flight to turn around.

Finland’s fast-growing air transport hub has achieved another record, surpassing 20 million passengers.

Oslo's Sandefjord Airport Torp celebrates “a milestone and a special day in Torp’s history”.

The major business-travel hotel brand and The School of Life will teach team members “emotionally intelligence”.

The carrier’s new direct route between Doha and Göteborg Landvetter is considered of great importance to the region.

Rickard Gustafson reveals in an interview to be aired during December how the airline is aiming to improve its short-haul flights.

In an industry painfully short of women leaders, Anne Rigail now has the task of dealing with the airline’s powerful unions.

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.