SAS Sweden cancels most flights as strike continues
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Scandinavian Airlines System cancelled most of its flights to, from and within Sweden on Tuesday for the fifth straight day after talks to end a cabin crew strike failed again to reach a conclusion.
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More travel chaos is expected at France's main airports as a strike by Air France workers continues.
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Flights resumed at Brussels south Charleroi airport on Sunday after security workers suspended a strike which shut it down for two days, an airport spokesman said.
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Scandinavian Airlines, which is part of travel conglomerate SAS AB, said Tuesday it flew 2.5 million passengers last month, an increase of 1.6 percent compared to November 2003.
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"The plane was en route from Copenhagen to the western Lithuanian town Palanga when the crew noted the failure of the front and right landing gear"  VILNIUS  - A plane with 52 people aboard crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday but no one was hurt, the airport said, in the second such accident this week involving a turboprop of the Scandinavian SAS airline.The plane ploughed through the ground with its fuselage and right wing and slid off the runway at Vilnius airport when the crew decided to put down there after noticing in flight that landing gear had failed.Following a crash of the same type of SAS plane on Sunday in Denmark, also due to landing gear problems, the airline said it was grounding the Canadian DHC-8-400 aircraft and cancelling 112 flights. Read more
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The move by Scandinavian airline SAS to stop flying Bombardier Q400 turboprops will hurt the carrier's profits.
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Spain&#39;s second biggest airline Spanair said it had cancelled 25 out of its scheduled 373 flights on Sunday due to a strike by cabin crew.
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South African public servants have called off two days of strikes they had threatened for this week. The strikes, planned for Monday and Tuesday, were suspended while ordinary members are consulted on the government&#39;s latest pay offer.
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British Airways cancelled four more flights due to what it called lingering problems from a staff shortage at London's Heathrow Airport which delayed thousands of travellers earlier in the week.
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United Airlines, recovering from a Sunday storm that pounded its Chicago hub, canceled more flights on Wednesday, as it worked to get planes and staff back on schedule.
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Scandinavian airline SAS stops flying Bombardier Q400 turboprops after a series of landing gear problems.
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TOKYO, October 19 (Itar-Tass) - About 260 air flights have been cancelled in Japan on Tuesday because of Typhoon Tokage, which currently rages in the country&#39;s south.
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A STRIKE by workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow failed to disrupt flights, airport chiefs said last night. About 40 members of the Transport and General Workers Union walked out at 4.30am yesterday, after
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Travellers faces a crippling 24-hour strike later this month after members of the British Airways&#39; largest union rejected the company&#39;s latest pay offer and voted to walk off the job.
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A strike by cabin crew staff at Scandinavian Airlines leads to the cancellation of about 300 flights across Europe.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled and many  others delayed on Friday due to a four-hour air traffic  controllers' strike in Italy, when unions protested against  plans to centralize control of central Europe's upper-airspace.
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PARIS (BBC News) - Air travellers in France can expect further chaos as a strike by Air France cabin crews is set to continue until late on Monday.  Air France officials said 60% of its flights would take off on Sunday after the strike forced the cancellation of one-third of Saturday's flights.  The strike, over pay and conditions, has mostly hit long-haul flights out of the main Paris airports.