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Northern Finland’s tourism industry divided over flight tax proposal

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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Lapland (Arctic Finland) tourism players are divided over a proposal to mitigate carbon emissions by introducing a flight tax. On

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 Finland General 

Finnair gets domestic competition with Norwegian’s new Helsinki-Vaasa route

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 1, 2019 at 15:00
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Norway-based budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has announced it will roll out regular flights between Helsinki and Vaasa, a city

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

Ottawa approves merger between Canadian North and First Air

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 11:03
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The Canadian government has approved the merger between northern airlines First Air and Canadian North. In a press release Wednesday

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Business BUSINESS Countries Featured General Highlights Sweden 

Scandinavian Airlines and pilots union reach agreement to end strike

Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10:26 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 14:27
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The 7-day pilot strike at SAS Airlines has ended after late night talks saw the company and unions in Denmark,

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Business BUSINESS Countries General Highlights Sweden 

Scandinavian Airlines pilots on strike, thousands of passengers stranded

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 10:23 — Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 16:11
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Airline passengers found themselves stranded at airports around Scandinavia on Friday, after the pilots for SAS Airlines went on strike

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Highlights Iceland 

Canadian couple among stranded passengers after Icelandic budget airline WOW Air folds

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 16:36
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An Ottawa couple currently in Iceland says it’s going to cost them an extra $2,000 to get back home after

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Business BUSINESS Countries Featured General Highlights Sweden 

Flights at Stockholm airport disrupted after Boeing jets grounded

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 10:52
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Stockholm’s Arlanda airport is experiencing disruption with an estimated 20 departures affected by the ban on Boeing 737 Max jets

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Highlights Norway 

EU Boeing aircraft ban affects Norwegian Airlines flights in Helsinki

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 10:19
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Norwegian Airlines has announced the cancellation of four flights from Helsinki to Stockholm and one flight to Helsinki to Oulu

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured General Highlights 

Report saying airline merger would jack up prices in Arctic Canada ‘ignorant’ of northern realities, say Inuit orgs

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 16:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 16:30
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The Inuit organizations behind two of the major airline companies serving the Canadian Arctic lambasted a report from Canada’s Competition

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured General Highlights 

Canada’s Competition Bureau says Arctic airline merger could bring higher prices, fewer flights

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 11:07 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 11:44
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The Competition Bureau says if two Arctic airlines — Canadian North and First Air — merge, it’s likely that prices

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Highlights Russia 

No more direct flights between northwest Russia’s two largest cities

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 10, 2018 at 16:00
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People from Murmansk and northern Norway now have to fly via St. Petersburg or Moscow to get to Arkhangelsk. “The

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured General Highlights Uncategorized 

Future of Air North’s direct flight from Northern Canada to Ottawa up in the air

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 15:33
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People in Yellowknife are anxious about the future of Air North’s direct flight to Ottawa, a route many laud as

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Countries Featured General Geopolitics Highlights Norway POLITICS 

Pilots warned of GPS jamming in Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 11:27
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“Reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s borders,” says the Civil Aviation Authority to

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Finland General Highlights 

Turkish Airlines to carry tourists to Finnish Lapland through new Istanbul hub

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 15:55
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Flights are scheduled from Istanbul three times a week starting next winter season. Istanbul’s new giant airport opened this week

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BUSINESS Business Featured General Highlights Russia Uncategorized 

Russian regional airline cancels only direct Murmansk-Oslo link

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 15:50
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Few people wanted to buy tickets on what was supposed to be the first direct flight from Murmansk. Nordavia, based

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