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

1 July 201928 June 2019 Yle News 0 Comments airlines, Finnair, flight, Helsinki, Norwegian Air Shuttle, travel, Vaasa

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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Ottawa approves merger between Canadian North and First Air

20 June 2019 Nick Murray, CBC News 0 Comments airlines, Canadian North, First Air, Inuit, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Makivik Corporation

The Canadian government has approved the merger between northern airlines First Air and Canadian North. In a press release Wednesday

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Scandinavian Airlines and pilots union reach agreement to end strike

3 May 201916 May 2019 Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden 0 Comments airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, tourism, travel, unions

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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Scandinavian Airlines pilots on strike, thousands of passengers stranded

26 April 201926 April 2019 Radio Sweden 0 Comments airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, tourism, travel, unions

Airline passengers found themselves stranded at airports around Scandinavia on Friday, after the pilots for SAS Airlines went on strike

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

28 March 2019 CBC News 0 Comments airlines, tourism, travel, Wow Air

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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Flights at Stockholm airport disrupted after Boeing jets grounded

13 March 201913 March 2019 Radio Sweden 0 Comments aircraft, airlines, airports, Boeing, flight, Norwegian Airlines, Stockholm, tourism, transport, TUI

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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EU Boeing aircraft ban affects Norwegian Airlines flights in Helsinki

13 March 2019 Yle News 0 Comments aircraft, airlines, airports, Boeing, flight, Norwegian Airlines, tourism, transport, travel

Norwegian Airlines has announced the cancellation of four flights from Helsinki to Stockholm and one flight to Helsinki to Oulu

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

26 February 201926 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 1 Comment airlines, Canadian North, First Air, Inuvialuit Development Corporation, Makivik, Northwest Territories, Nunavik, Nunavut, NWT

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

26 February 201926 February 2019 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments airlines, Canadian North, First Air, Northwest Territories, Nunavik, Nunavut, NWT

The Competition Bureau says if two Arctic airlines — Canadian North and First Air — merge, it’s likely that prices

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

10 December 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments airlines, Arkhangelsk, Barents cooperation, Murmansk, transport, travel

People from Murmansk and northern Norway now have to fly via St. Petersburg or Moscow to get to Arkhangelsk. “The

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

6 November 2018 Randi Beers, CBC News 0 Comments Air North, airlines, flight, Ottawa, tourism, travel, Whitehorse, Yellowknife

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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Pilots warned of GPS jamming in Arctic Norway

2 November 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments aircraft, airlines, airports, borders, Finnmark, flight, military, military exercises, NATO, radar, technology, Trident Juncture

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

30 October 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments airlines, airports, Lapland, Rovaniemi, tourism, Turkish Airlines

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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Russian regional airline cancels only direct Murmansk-Oslo link

19 July 201819 July 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments airlines, airports, flight, Murmansk, Nordavia, Oslo, tourism, transport, travel

Few people wanted to buy tickets on what was supposed to be the first direct flight from Murmansk. Nordavia, based

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Residents concerned by Northern Canadian airline merger

10 July 2018 Michelle Pucci, CBC News 0 Comments airlines, Canadian North, First Air, flight, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, travel

Nunavummiut (Nunavut residents) have mixed feelings about plans for First Air and Canadian North to merge. The companies announced their

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