Direct flight between Canada and Greenland could strengthen cultural, language ties
When Navarana Beveridge finally takes a long-overdue trip home to Greenland from Nunavut, she’ll have two options for getting there:
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Airline shutdown creates new challenges for rural Alaska
In April, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atqasuk’s tribal co-ordinator Millie Frankson received word that the grocery order
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Scandinavian airlines cancel thousands of flights and lay off most of their employees
Demand for air travel is essentially non-existent due to the coronavirus outbreak and airlines like SAS, Norwegian and Widerøe have
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Arctic Canada: what are the Northwest Territories and its residents doing about COVID-19?
Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife has cancelled a class trip to Europe. About 20 students and several adults
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No take off for flight-shaming in northern Norway, but northern Sweden sees fall in air passengers
With 2019 being the year when ‘Flight shame’ was introduced as a social movement aimed at boycotting air travel to
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Turkish Airlines opens flights between Istanbul and Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland
The new route is the first long distance to Rovaniemi and the local tourism hope it will bring more visitors
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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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Finnair reports weakening profits in second quarter
Finnair’s operating profit declined to 47.2 million euros in the second quarter of 2019, a drop of nearly 20 percent
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Finland’s cities benefiting from domestic tourism trend
Finnish tourists are increasingly choosing to holiday in Finland, according to preliminary data released by tourist offices in the cities
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Finnair gets domestic competition with Norwegian’s new Helsinki-Vaasa route
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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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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Sweden: Local shipping generates more emissions than domestic flights
Sweden’s domestic shipping emits almost twice the amount of air pollution and greenhouse gases than previously thought. A new measurement
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Flights at Stockholm airport disrupted after Boeing jets grounded
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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