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Ringed Air Passengers Airbus

Ringed Air Passengers

The ink had hardly dried on the ruling of the European Constitutional Court refusing to allow U.S. authorities to obtain detailed information on air passengers traveling from the EU to America, and…

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Who 'Flew' Into the EU Blacklist Airbus

Who 'Flew' Into the EU Blacklist

The European Commission last week published an updated version of the blacklist of unsafe airlines that are banned from the airspace of all European Union member states. Of our nearest neighbors in…

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Security Costs Airbus

Security Costs

The conflict between British airlines and airports, which was provoked by the tightening of security measures after an unsuccessful attempt by terrorists to blow up planes, ended with the expected…

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Control and Flight Airbus

Control and Flight

Scientists will create a safety system capable of fully protecting an airplane from skyjackers. In the development of the new concept for controlling air travel and passengers, more than €40 million…

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Will We Fly Almost for Free? Airbus

Will We Fly Almost for Free?

As assured by the director of North European and Baltic routes of the Irish company Ryanair (low-cost carrier) Karl Hegstadius, in about ten years airline tickets will become practically free. With a…

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Airline News (Abroad No. 341) Airbus

Airline News (Abroad No. 341)

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Europe loses luggage Airbus

Europe loses luggage

Losses of baggage by airlines in Europe are growing year by year. Already today, about seven pieces of baggage disappear on each flight, and in summer the situation will only worsen, according to…

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Bavaria: Beer on the Fly Airbus

Bavaria: Beer on the Fly

Fly to Bavaria just to drink freshly brewed beer? Nothing could be simpler. And in the eyes of Bavarians this goal is more than noble; it is not for nothing that they call beer Flussiges Brot, which…

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Sky-high menu Airbus

Sky-high menu

Few airline passengers are able to limit themselves to a sour candy on the way. Most require a full meal of three or four courses, and if hours separate landing from takeoff, then also additional…

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The whole truth about charter flights Airbus

The whole truth about charter flights

Every year, charter flights take hundreds of thousands of tourists outside their homeland and bring them back. At the same time, passengers often reproach charter carriers: they say flights are…

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Lottery and Mozart candies Airbus

Lottery and Mozart candies

The Austrian capital's airport bears the name Schwechat – after a small town in Lower Austria located near Vienna.

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Dark Continent lands on blacklist Airbus

Dark Continent lands on blacklist

The blacklist of unreliable and unsafe foreign airlines, which are denied access to the airspace of all European Union member states, first appeared last week on the European Commission's website. An…

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