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A three-day strike by Danish cabin crew members that forced Scandinavian air carrier SAS to cancel nearly 700 flights from its main hub in Copenhagen ended late Thursday, the airline said.

SAS said it aimed to resume services as soon as possible but estimated that at least 30 to 40 flights would be delayed or possibly cancelled on Friday. Late Thursday, the cabin crew union announced they would be returning for work Friday morning.

Passengers were advised to check company websites or the Copenhagen airport’s website for information on their respective flight.

source: bangkokpost.com

A noreaster battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding.

The storm flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia and trapped others. Some New Jersey shore residents evacuated, and officials in Connecticut urged some residents along the Long Island Sound to do the same. Inland areas from eastern New York to Maine faced a threat of heavy snow.

source: Forbes

Hungarian ground crews at Budapest’s Ferihegy International airport went on strike Thursday to support demands for higher pay.

It was the third strike in just over one week, airport officials said.

The strike of the ground service crews, who belong to an independent trade union of air traffic employees, is scheduled to last until Saturday, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported.

source: postchronicle.com

Air Pacific we revert to its scheduled Nadi/Honolulu/Vancouver flights from 06 April following the cancellation of a code-share deal with Canada’s Harmony Airlines.

Harmony Airways, a five-year-old Canadian full-service airline, announced it would end scheduled flights, blaming rising costs and competition from larger rivals, and only operate chartered flights.

source: MICE BTN

Faced with empty seats and soaring costs, tiny Harmony Airways is headed for a forced landing early next month.

The privately owned boutique carrier announced today it is ending its scheduled flights to Toronto on Friday and all other scheduled flights by April 9.

source: The Honolulu Advertiser

Condor, a German airline, will drop its twice-weekly service to Frankfurt, Germany, at the end of April, but LTU International will pick up some of the slack by increasing its service to Munich and Dusseldorf in May.

Every six months, Condor looks at its service and decides where to make changes, said Janet Gorecki, a sales and marketing manager for the North American division of the airline.

“‘For the summer season, Orlando is a stronger destination,’” Gorecki said. “‘It was decided to focus on that and possibly increase capacity to Orlando in the future.’”

source: naplesnews.com

With the skies and runways clear, US Airways struggled to accommodate a backlog of weary travelers stranded at Philadelphia International Airport days after a paralyzing ice storm struck the Northeast.

But late Sunday, conditions began to ease. US Airways went from trying to find seats for 100,000 passengers systemwide, to 30- to 45-minute lines in Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C., by the end of the day.

“‘The lines are down to what is normal for a holiday weekend,'” said US Airways spokeswoman Andrea Rader.

The company hoped to be back to normal operations Monday, she said.

source: Chron

Airlines unable to fly because of problems with deicing equipment during a winter storm left hundreds of passengers stranded on jets overnight at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac Friday night and Saturday morning was unclear, but irate passengers and airport officials said as many as a dozen may have been involved.

Pilots and officials blamed some of the problems on a shortage of deicing fluid and a new federal regulation giving pilots a narrow window to get their planes in the air once the chemicals are applied. The change has meant some jets need to get doused repeatedly if their takeoffs are delayed.

source: The New York Sun

JetBlue cancelled 215 flights on the East Coast Friday due to a winter storm, according to a spokesman for the discount airline. Other airlines, including American Airlines and Delta, have canceled flights on a smaller scale.

Of the cancelled flights, 210 arrived or departed from New York-area airports: Kennedy Airport, LaGuardia Airport or Newark’s Liberty Airport.

Four flights from Boston and one from California were the others cancelled.

Last month JetBlue lost $30 million after thousands of people were stranded at airports and in planes on the tarmac.

source: AHN

A new summer flight to the Costa Blanca by low-cost airline flyglobespan has been cancelled before its first take-off.

The airline announced in October it would be starting flights to Murcia from Aberdeen on Sundays and Wednesdays from April 29.

But it removed the Wednesday flights from its website without warning on Wednesday and confirmed to callers they would not be going ahead “‘for technical reasons'”.

Last night, flyglobespan confirmed it was a lack of passengers which had prompted the decision which has left some travellers furious.

source: The Herald