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Turkey: Tourism income jumps 22% to $14B in Q3

Country’s quarterly tourism revenue up nearly a quarter year-on-year, says TurkStat Turkey’s tourism income jumped by nearly a quarter this July-September to $14.03 billion, the country’s statistical authority said on Thursday. The country’s tourism revenue soared 22% in the third quarter, up from $11.5 billion in the same period last year, TurkStat announced. “While 82.1%

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Midair scare forces Silverstone Air plane to make emergency landing

Photo/Daily Nation/A Silverstone Air plane at the Eldoret International Airport on May 31, 2019. A plane operated by the airline was forced to make an emergency landing at the airport after a wheel dropped off midair on October 28. A Silverstone Air plane on Monday caused a scare after a wheel dropped off midair, moments

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Beijing’s new $63 billion mega-airport begins international flights

An inner view of the terminal hall of the newly launched Daxing International Airport on the outskirts of Beijing, China September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo Beijing’s new $63 billion Daxing airport began its first scheduled international flights on Sunday as it ramped up operations to help relieve pressure on the city’s existing Capital airport.

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Qantas completes longest non-stop New York-Sydney flight

Photo (AP) Australia’s Qantas on Sunday completed the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultra long-haul flights on crew fatigue and passenger jetlag. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner touched down in Sydney early Sunday morning after a flight of

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Kenya plane with 55 people crashes

Bystanders watch the Fokker 50, 5Y-IZO plane operated by Silverstone Air that crash landed after take-off from the Wilson Airport in Nairobi, Kenya October 11, 2019. (Reuters Photo) Several passengers sustain injuries, rushed to various hospitals in capital Nairobi, Kenyan officials say A Kenyan plane operated by Silverstone Air company crashed while taking off on

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Saudi Arabia allows foreign men and women to share hotel rooms

FILE PHOTO: A Saudi man walks past renovated buildings at the historic city of Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri/File Photo Saudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related, after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a

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Boeing to pay 737 MAX crash victims’ families $144,500 each

FILE PHOTO: Women mourn next to coffins during the burial ceremony of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 crash victims at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Orthodox church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri Boeing Co (BA.N) will pay the families of 346 people killed in two fatal 737 MAX crashes $144,500 each

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Hundreds of thousands stranded as travel firm Thomas Cook collapses

Passengers are seen at Thomas Cook check-in points at Mallorca Airport after the world’s oldest travel firm collapsed stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo The world’s oldest travel firm Thomas Cook (TCG.L)

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Uganda Airlines denies grounding planes after reports of cancelled flights

Uganda Airlines has disputed claims that it had grounded one of its planes and failed to make scheduled flights to Somalia this week. Early this month the airline launched flights to Mogadishu, Somalia (four times weekly), but according to one disappointed customer, the airline failed to make the flight to Somalia yesterday, Thursday. The airline

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Somalia bans direct flights to Kismayo from Kenya

. Aircraft from Kenya will not directly access the three main airports and tens of airstrips . Experts argue the current Government of Somalia might have difficulty in imposing such directives since has no machinery in place Somalia has ordered all aircraft originating from Kenya to land in Mogadishu as the diplomatic row over boundary

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