April 2010

Airports Closed Until Wednesday Morning

April 21, 2010

Airspace in northern Finland is expected to open on Wednesday morning, according to the Transport Safety Agency (Trafi). However, the airports in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere will most likely remain closed. Finland’s airspace is to remain closed to flights until at least 9 a.m. Wednesday. Trafi says it is monitoring the situation continuously. Airports in [...]

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Re-Think of Volcano Measures

April 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The Internati onal Air Transport Association (IATA) sharply criticized European governments for their lack of leadership in handling airspace restrictions in light of the Icelandic volcano eruption and urged a re-think of the decision-making process. “We are far enough into this crisis to express our dissatisfaction on how governments have managed it [...]

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In Finland flight restrictions are valid until Monday, April 19.

April 18, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The volcanic ash plume continues to stay above Finland, so the flight restrictions are still valid until further notice. All flights to and from Finnish aiports are cancelled until Monday April 19, 6 pm. According to Finnish Meteorological Institute the volcanic ash cloud will remain in Finlands airspace for several days. In [...]

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Finland’s flight restrictions are still valid until further notice.

April 17, 2010

Edit: Flight restrictions are valid until Monday April 19, 6 pm. There are no arriving or departing flights from Finavia Airports. The volcanic ash plume will stay above Finland for several days. The development is monitored continuously. The forecast is made until Thursday 2 pm finnish time. We will do the next update about the situation April 18, 2 pm [...]

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Finland’s airspace stays closed

April 16, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Updated 16.4.2010 at 3.20 pm. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the volcanic ash plume will stay above Finland several days. The development is monitored continually. The flight restrictions are approximately valid until Sunday, April 18, 3 pm. In case your flight is cancelled, please contact your airline. Airlines ask passenger not [...]

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Southwest Airlines to Terminate Agreement With WestJet

April 16, 2010

Southwest Airlines notified WestJet today of its intent to terminate the agreement to offer connecting service between the United States and Canada with WestJet. Recently, WestJet requested significant changes to the agreement that the two airlines have had in place since 2008, and WestJet has since reaffirmed and clarified its request. Southwest cannot agree with [...]

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Hawaiian Repeats as Nation’s Top-Ranked Airline in Service Quality

April 13, 2010

For the second straight year and third year out of the past four, Hawaiian Airlines earned the nation’s number one ranking for overall quality in 2009, according to the findings reported today in the 20th annual Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. Hawaiian was also the top-ranked airline in the annual AQR study for 2006 and [...]

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Plane Jane! The Review

April 12, 2010

I was fortunate to get the upcoming book Plane Jane from Robert Fischer and to do the review about it. I was thinking about to read it few times just to get the honest opinion about the story, author and the layout. First read was a bit of “bizarre” because the book ended a little [...]

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