Quebec-based Air Inuit announces new CEO
Christian Busch, a long-time Air Inuit employee, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Quebec-based
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Air Canada suspending passenger service to northern city of Yellowknife on Jan. 23
Airline says it’s cutting operations due to ‘stifled demand,’ travel restrictions, quarantine rules Air Canada is suspending passenger service to
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Chamber of Commerce in Canada’s Northwest Territories says tourism threatened by COVID-19 border restrictions
Travel restrictions will likely stay in place during the 2021 tourism season, Dr. Kandola says The N.W.T. Chamber of Commerce
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Lapland tourism to lose over 60% of winter business says Finnish survey
Roughly half of firms said that domestic tourism would not help cover losses caused by the absence of overseas visitors.
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Cracking open a ‘treasure trove’ of aviation history in northwestern Canada
Bob Cameron calls it a “treasure trove” of Yukon aviation history. The small, unassuming building in Carcross was once the
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Inuit org wants Canada to deem air transport essential during COVID-19 crisis
The national Inuit organization in Canada is calling on the federal government to deem air transport an essential service for
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Extremely low pressure grounds some air traffic in northern Norway
The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The
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Northern Finland’s tourism industry divided over flight tax proposal
Lapland (Arctic Finland) tourism players are divided over a proposal to mitigate carbon emissions by introducing a flight tax. On
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Should Finland adopt a flight tax to reduce emissions?
Is flying too cheap? That’s what one group of activists argues as they campaign for Finland to introduce a tax
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Finnish residents among world’s worst CO2 emitters by air travel, stats show
People resident in Finland cause more carbon dioxide emissions by flying than those resident in any other country in the world except
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Sweden: Comparing emissions taxes for planes and cars
If flights were to pay for their impact on the climate, just like lorries and cars do, a plane trip
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Finnair admits carbon offset sales pitch ‘misleading’ as its emissions rise
Finnair has admitted to providing misleading information about emissions reduction targets as part of a ‘Push for change’ campaign to
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New stamp honours first pilot to land in area of Yellowknife, Northern Canada
C.H. (Punch) Dickins once boasted to Maclean’s Magazine, “put your pencil on any point on the map of Canada and
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Project aims to eliminate fossil fuels from Swedish flights
A new project got off the ground on Monday, one that aims to get the aviation industry flying on fossil-free
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Russia, Norway talk Arctic GPS jamming in Oslo
Norway and Russia agree to look at the establishment of a new military communications channel. “We recognise Russia’s right to
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