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Boy of eight held at Paris airport for more than a week

French child rights campaigners horrified at ‘imprisoning’ of child who arrived unaccompanied from Indian Ocean island. An unaccompanied eight-year-old boy has been held at Paris’s main airport for more than a week after trying to enter France with false identity papers. Chil...

Australian customs & immigration workers begin strikes

Australia’s customs and immigration workers have launched strikes at Australian airports, following a postponement over the Easter travel period due to security concerns. A series of short strikes at major international gateways began March 30. The Community and Public Sector Union had p...

KLM robot successfully guides passengers around airport

KLM says robotics will play as “increasingly important role in aviation”, following a trial at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The airline started a project to introduce robots to help with ground operations three years ago, with a trial in place at its home airport from December last year. After the initial testing period, KLM reckons the robot (known as Spencer, for Social...

airBaltic Links Amsterdam with All Baltic Capitals

The Latvian airline airBaltic has launched its Amsterdam – Tallinn route, for the first time in history establishing direct links from the Dutch capital to all three Baltic capitals. Wolfgang Reuss, SVP of Network Management airBaltic: “With the opening of our new route, airBaltic now offers the best service from Amsterdam to the Baltic region. We operate up to four flights daily fr...

Chanel's Singapore pop-up is one airport we don't mind getting stuck in

Set foot into Chanel's latest pop-up store here, and you'd swear you were at a real airport. A really stylish airport, let me add. For 12 days, On Pedder's sprawling one-storey space at Scotts Square has been transformed into an airport-themed plaza by the French luxury house. Run by the uber chic "Chanel Airlines", customers are treated to a VIP-only airport termi...

Polish police detain 21 over false bomb threat to airport

Polish police say they have detained 21 people in connection with a false bomb threat that caused 800 people to be evacuated and four flights to be diverted from an airport near the capital. The bomb threat occurred late Sunday and affected Warsaw’s Modlin Airport, which is north of the capital and serves budget airlines. Dawid Marciniak, a police official, said Monday that police trac...

Strasbourg-Orly, it's over ( with Air France)?

From now there is no more flights Air France (or HOP!) to take you from Strasbourg to Paris/Orly. Well, there are not many people are sad of this situation. You will find an online petition on Change.org asking to keep the commercial activity between the two airports. But the document only obtained 248 signatures on behalf of that decision. On the social network, you can also find some tweet...

Airport aims to use Uber drivers' fingerprints to check past

A battle over background checks for Uber drivers at the world's busiest airport comes as cities like Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, consider more thorough screenings to prevent criminals from getting behind the wheel. Uber has objected to the Atlanta airport's plan to use fingerprints to check criminal records of its drivers, saying its own record checks are sufficient. But the distr...

Call about bomb on Delhi-Kathmandu Jet Airways flight was a hoax

Nearly 170 people onboard a Jet Airways flight from Delhi had to be evacuated at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Sunday after authorities received a threat about a bomb on the plane, briefly halting flight operations. An unidentified person made a call to the airport authorities saying that explosives have been planted onboard the Jet Airways Flight 260 that took off...

Brussels attacks: Police release airport terminal

Belgian police investigating the deadly Brussels airport blasts that killed 28 travellers have concluded their investigations on site, officials say. A provisional survey of the terminal found the main building was stable. Meanwhile, a Belgian news agency says prosecutors charged a second man in connection with a foiled attack in the Paris region. There is no confirmation. Belgian police...

Oman to increase air traffic fees as it grapples with budget deficit

Oman’s Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) will raise fees charged for air traffic through the sultanate, the authority’s chief executive Mohammed Al Zaabi told the official Oman News Agency. The decision is part of a series of steps by Oman to strengthen state finances as it grapples with a big budget deficit caused by low oil prices. In January it cut domestic gasoline p...

Vienna-London flight halted as passenger raises IS fears

An easyJet flight from Vienna to London was halted just before takeoff on Saturday because a passenger believed the man sitting next to her might be an Islamic extremist, authorities said. “The woman believed that she saw messages related to IS (Islamic State) on the man’s mobile phone,” Austrian interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP. The wom...

Brussels Airport Closed Until At Least March 29 After Bombing

Flights at Brussels Airport will not resume until at least Tuesday in the wake of this week's deadly terror attack which destroyed much of its check-in hall, it was announced Saturday. Two bombs ripped through the departure hall Tuesday, killing at least 10 people there and injuring scores. Incoming flights have been diverted and airlines have scrambled to rebook passengers on flights to...

Brussels aftermath: Passengers in India asked to take off footwear, belts

Amid a heightened alert in the wake of Brussels terror attacks, security agencies have stepped up vigil at sensitive airports in the country with passengers being made to take off their footwear and belts and go through detailed frisking. At major airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad, CISF and local police have shored up security apparatus and...

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