Finland unveils plan for electric aircraft routes across Lapland region
An experimental project operating out of Enontekiö Airport in the northwest corner of Finland is set to test the viability
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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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Alaska’s largest rural airline RavnAir could be forced to shut down for good, court docs say
Alaska’s largest rural airline is $90 million in debt and could be forced to sell its assets and shut down
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COVID-19: Arctic borough’s seizure of bankrupt airline’s assets “counterproductive,” says Alaskan AG
Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson said Tuesday that there’s no legal authority behind the North Slope Borough’s emergency order attempting
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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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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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Northern Swedish airports get compensation for fall in travellers linked to climate change
The government will pay out 67 million SEK to make up for a drop in passengers airports in the north
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Russia’s top general indirectly confirms Arctic deployment of Kinzhal missile
MiG-31K fighter jets armed with the new Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile based at Kola, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya
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Arctic Canada : airline merger creating ‘dire’ situation for northwest communities, says MLA
The MLA for the Northwest Territories’ northernmost communities is calling on airlines in the Beaufort Delta to provide more frequent
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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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Arctic Canada: Nunavut residents get underwater airplane escape training
You’re upside down and underwater, strapped into a metal cage by a harness-like seatbelt and the door beside you is
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Alaska Airlines adds restrictions on emotional support animals
Alaska Airlines has announced a new policy to limit emotional support animals on airplanes. A passenger is already required to
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