The International Court of Justice, tThe highest UN court has backed Qatar in a dispute with four neighbors that imposed an air blockade on Doha more than three years ago. The Hague-based ICJ on Tuesday rejected the appeal by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against …
Read More »Airlines defend movements to full capacity flights
The airline industry defended American Airlines on Tuesday over its new policy to fill the planes to capacity after criticism from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Redfield said there was “substantial disappointment with American Airlines” about the …
Read More »China’s three major airlines receive domestically produced ARJ21 aircraft
FILE PHOTO: A model of China’s ARJ21 aircraft by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) is shown at Aviation Expo China 2017 in Beijing, China on September 19, 2017. REUTERS / Stringer BEIJING / SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s three largest state airlines on Sunday received their first ARJ21 aircraft, …
Read More »Climate protest disrupts reopening of Paris Orly airport after three-month shutdown
Issued on: 06/26/2020 – 07:21Modified: 06/26/2020 – 07:21 The French capital’s Orly airport reopened on Friday after a three-month shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but traffic was light and was also briefly interrupted by weather protesters who stormed the runway. A plane operated by the low-cost airline Transavia took …
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