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An Emirates Airlines Airbus A330-200 was performing flight (EK901) from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Amman (Jordan) with 237 passengers on board. Aircraft was enroute about 1 hour into the flight when the first officer became ill and promted the captain to turn around and return for a safe landing in Dubai about 150 minutes after departure. After successful landing, the first officer was taken to a local hospital.
Delta Air Lines will serve new daily flights from Nagoya (Japan) to Honolulu on December 22, 2010. The flights will be operated with Boeing 767-300 aircraft with 216 seats - 35 Business seats and 181 seats for Economy class. Currently Delta Airlines operates flights from Nagoya to Detroit, Manila, Saipan and Guam.
The airline also has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting permission to start new nonstop service between Tokyo and the Pacific island of Palau. The proposed flights would operate 4 times weekly beginning in December, 2010. It would be the only scheduled nonstop service between Japan and Palau.
A standing room only ticket is, traditionally, dirt-cheap. So it's easy to see why this idea appeals to both a no-frills carrier and its bargain-hungry customers.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary - fond of speculating publicly about outlandish money-saving schemes - says his airline is considering vertical seats akin to bar stools with seatbelts. Despite talk of safety testing and tickets selling for £4 or less, aviation experts say such plans are pie in the sky.
It's not the first time the airline has floated the standing seats idea, or indeed come up with headline grabbing schemes which fail to materialise.
Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: "In 2009, airBaltic made record profit, because we focused on attractive prices and good connections via Riga. For the coming winter, we will make it even better. Compared to last winter, fourteen new destinations are added to our route network. Flight frequencies are increased on more than twenty routes, greatly improving connections via Riga to and from Europe, CIS and the Middle East."
Comparing to the schedule of the previous winter season, airBaltic plans to offer new flights this year from North Hub Riga to Kittila, Vaasa, Rovaniemi, Kuusamo in Finland, Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon), Arkhangelsk (Russia), Athens (Greece), Belgrade (Serbia), Lulea and Umea (Sweden), Madrid (Spain). The airline also will operate two new direct flights – one from the Estonian capital of Tallinn to Stockholm, and the other one from the Finnish city of Oulu to Stockholm (Sweden).
In addition, airBaltic plans to increase flight frequency on several compared to the previous winter season. More flights will be operated to Bergen (daily), Stavanger (daily), Billund (4 times weekly), Aalesund (3 times weekly), Brussels (18 times weekly), Dublin (4 times weekly), Dushanbe (3 times weekly), Gothenburg (5 times weekly), Geneva (daily), Hamburg (daily), Kaliningrad (13 times weekly), Chisinau (5 times weekly), London (9 times weekly), Tashkent (3 times weekly), Tbilisi (5 times weekly), Oulu (daily), Tel Aviv (5 times weekly), Tromso (3 times weekly), Vaasa (daily), Umea (daily), Venice (5 times weekly), Vienna (6 times weekly), Zurich (6 times weekly).
airBaltic was acknowledged by anna.aero for the ANNIES award as the Europe's largest flag carrier by new routes, operating this summer 27 routes more than in 2009. airBaltic serves more than 70 destinations from its home base at Riga, Latvia. From each of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.
source: airBaltic.com
An Austrian Airlines Boeing 737-600 was performing flight OS612 from Saint Petersburg (Russia) to Vienna (Austria). Aircraft was enroute at FL380 about 60nm northeast of Riga (Latvia) when suddenly a passenger became sick and he was prompting the crew to divert to Riga. The airplane landed safely just in 15 minutes. The sick passenger was taken to a local hospital in Riga.
A United Airlines Airbus A319-100(N845UA) was performing flight UA428 from Las Vegas to Chicago O'Hare( USA). Aircraft was enroute at FL390 about 170nm southwest of Denver, when the crew reported about an very unruly passenger on board of Airbus and diverted to Denver for a safe landing. The ''man of mettle'' was immediately taken by police of Denver. The airplane reached primary destination - Chicago with a delay of 2.45 hours. Officials said the passenger became disruptive without going into further detail.
The parents of a 6 old girl Allysa, were notified, that their daughter was included in the no-fly list of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a terror suspect, when they traveled from Cleveland to Minneapolis. A Continental Airlines informed the parents, that their daughter, Alyssa Thomas, was listed among the Department of Homeland Security's no-fly list because she may have potential or proven links to terrorism.
