Taking the Murmansk-Oslo flight link? Get ready for night travel
Prices start at 7,675 rubel, less than 1,000 kroner, for a one-way ticket. Nordavia’s new route directly from Murmansk to
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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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Finnish company to launch wind-propelled cruise ship
Viking Line’s flagship cruise liner Grace has received an upgrade this week. On Tuesday ship workers in Turku installed a
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Finnair bracing for flight cancellations over pilot action
National airline Finnair has warned of the possibility of flight cancellations as pilots resort to industrial action during negotiations on
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High peak in low season, Iceland’s mass-tourism boiling over
1,8 million visitors may not be all good news for the tiny populated island with fragile nature and underdeveloped infrastructure.
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Russian tourism on Svalbard up 500%
Coal mining is no longer the biggest revenue source for the Russian settlement of Barentsburg. For the first time, revenues
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Blog: Cruise through Northwest Passage has set sail
In 1969, the first commercial cargo ship sailed through the Northwest Passage. In 2013, the first bulk carrier traversed those
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Norwegian Airlines to start flights from London to Arctic Finland
British tourists will find it easier to get to Lapland this winter after Norwegian announced a new route from London
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Norwegians detained for ‘cross-border stone throwing’ at Russia
Don’t throw the first stone. Norwegian military border guards and police acted properly. It was Sunday evening that the military
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Russia – Norway border traffic twice as high as few years back
Including July, this year has seen more crossings at the Russian-Norwegian border than during entire 2009. Immigration officials at Norway’s
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Alaska communities prepare for Northwest Passage cruise ship
This summer, an extravagant cruise ship voyage will make history, and it’s starting in Alaska. A luxury vessel, the $350
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Blog: Descent into Russia’s Far East
In the middle of February, after five and a half sleepless hours in the window seat of a diamond mining
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Helsinki Airport “best in northern Europe”
Finland’s Helsinki Airport is northern Europe’s best airport of 2016, according to a survey of 13 million international travellers. The
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Direct Central European flight arrives in Lapland
A direct scheduled flight route has been opened between Finnish Lapland and Central Europe. The first plane to fly the
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Speed, politics & TransCanada: Week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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