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Disused UK airport once busier than Gatwick to restart flights this summer
London Ashford Airport, also known as Lydd, will see Air Alderney flights take off from this summer, the first time commercial flights have operated from the Kent airport since 2018
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Airport passenger opens door of plane moving on runway & flees on deployed slide
A man aboard a flight by Delta airlines bound for Seattle got up and furiously jumped off the emergency door as the plane was taking off from Los Angeles International Airport
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Pilot, 60, dubbed 'bird in a biplane' relives her epic flights across the world
Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a thoroughly modern adventurer who has flown from South Africa to England, from England to Australia, and crossed America - all in in an open cockpit Boeing Stearman
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Company launches 'Really Cool Airlines' taking to the skies later this year
CEO Patee Sarasin announced the launch of Really Cool Airlines, a Thai company which tourism bosses in the country hope will help it get back to pre-Covid levels of visitors
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UK airports fail to make top 100 rankings as post-pandemic struggle continues
Tokyo Haneda International Airport in Japan has been judged to be the best airport in the world, while the likes of London Stansted and London Gatwick are languishing at the bottom of the pile
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Tax break for UK airlines leads to spike in heavily polluting domestic flights
A cut in Air Passenger Duty from April 1 will lead to a big rise in warming emissions from domestic aviation, the Government's figures and Mirror analysis shows
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'I'm a pilot and we know the routes that have turbulence but can't avoid them'
Veteran Air Canada Dreamliner captain Doug Morris, who recently wrote This Is Your Captain Speaking, explained why pilots can't avoid areas of turbulence even when they're know they're near
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Lufthansa asks passengers to delete any videos after plane hits turbulence
As Lufthansa's flight 469 from Austin, Texas, bound for Frankfurt, Germany, was being diverted to Washington Dulles Airport, crew reportedly told passengers to delete any photos and videos
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One person confirmed dead after two small planes crash in mid-air over lake
Two small planes collided mid-air and plunged into Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, Florida, US, on Tuesday. One person was confirmed dead, however, it is not known yet how many people were on board the planes
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‘Horrifying’ flight diverted as passengers vomit during nine-hour ordeal
Passengers aboard Southwest Airlines flight 3094 from Baltimore, Maryland, bound for Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina said they were left for four hours at Myrtle Beach, US
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Plane fills with smoke after aircraft strikes bird and engine catches fire
Southwest Airlines flight 3923 departed from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but turned back after it was struck by a bird and one of the engines caught fire
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Man arrested after 'urinating on business class passenger' on long-haul flight
Aryan Vohra, a 21-year-old student in the US, was arrested after the American Airlines flight AA 292 arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport
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Two Americans accused of illegaly sending aviation-related technology to Russia
Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky and Douglas Robertson, who operated KanRus Trading Company, were arrested for allegedly circumventing US export laws to sell sophisticated avionics equipment to Russian companies
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Man subjected to 'embarrassing' airport search over Harry Potter weapon prop
A man flying to Brisbane was stopped by security when officials mistook the wand from his Slytherin costume for a weapon, to the amusement of Harry Potter fans on social media
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Flight attendant says you should always ask crew before you swap plane seats
Anaïs Monique is a former veteran flight attendant who has dealt with many seat-swapping requests during her time in the skies, and has explained when she was most likely to make them happen
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Flight attendants say unruly passengers can make them want to quit
Jay Roberts, who has worked as senior cabin crew for Emirates, asked flight attendants which parts of the job they found the hardest on the Fly Guy's Cabin Crew Lounge network
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Record-breaking number of stashed guns found by US airport security last year
The Transportation Security Administration found thousands of firearms in 2022, with some stashed in items from raw chicken and jars of peanut butter, to a PlayStation and an arm sling
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Spain to follow UK with new rules over liquids in hand luggage from end of 2023
Spain's Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona-El Prat will see new hand luggage rules come into force by the end of 2023, followed by Palma de Mallorca and Malaga-Costa del Sol
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Terrified passengers ‘scream' as Boeing plane plunges 1,000ft towards sea
The incredible near-miss on Qatar Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner saw the aircraft come within moments of crashing into the sea before a hero pilot saved hundreds of lives
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Brit collapses and dies after 11 hours on flight from Heathrow with wife
Michael Joseph Morris, who was travelling with his wife, suddenly collapsed in the international arrivals toilet while waiting for his luggage to be returned after flying from Heathrow to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg
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Dramatic footage captures plane on fire as tyres explode during take-off
The Boeing 767-306ER was scheduled to fly from Phuket, Thailand to Russia, carrying 309 passengers including families of men hiding from Putin's mobilisation decree
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Plane passengers stuck on flight for 13 hours - only to end up where they began
Rather than flying the planned 9,000 miles to Dubai, an Emirates flight taking off from Auckland spent 13 hours in the sky before touching back down on the tarmac it had set off from
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Abandoned UK airport plans relaunch with budget flights to Spain and Cyprus
Negotiations are said to be underway to introduce passenger flights from the currently abandoned Manston Airports' schedule, with the first to begin flying from 2028
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Flight attendant hailed a hero for soothing a crying baby no-one could calm
The youngster's screams had turned the four-and-a-half hour flight from Chengdu to Jilin, China into a nightmare as not even his parents could calm him - but a heroic flight attendant soothed the little one by taking him on a tour of the plane
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UK's 'lost' airport could reopen after being closed for more than a decade
Plans are in place to re-open Plymouth's mothballed airport as leader Richard Bingley aims to start a “public/private” partnership, with cross-party backing for a new airport on the disused site
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