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Russian leisure carrier Nordwind has been authorised to operate commercial flights to Pyongyang, marking another international carrier's return to scheduled service to North Korea as regional travel slowly reopens. The approval highlights growing Moscow–Pyongyang connectivity and raises operational, regulatory and geopolitical implications.
Aviation Source
• Len Varley
By Aviation Source: On April 6, 1926, the first flights of “Luft Hansa” took off from Berlin. On Easter Monday, April 6, 2026 - exactly 100 years later - this special anniversary will be celebrated with commemorative flights.
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By ch-aviation: Several daily Operator News updates covering all Operator Route Network changes, strategic fleet developments and aircraft orders, start-ups and bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions and partnerships and alliances.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: SES, which has pursued a multi-orbit satellite technology roadmap, is exploring cross-unit content bundles between its media and aero or cruise businesses, as the passenger experience evolves.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: A new tentative agreement between United Airlines and its workforce of more than 30,000 flight attendants will allow the Chicago-based carrier to set up its own regional airline, where crew members would earn nearly 50% less than their mainline coworkers.
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politico.eu
• Victor Goury-Laffont
By politico.eu: A union representative said the situation is unlikely to lead to flight cancellations over the Easter weekend.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: A British citizen who works as a flight attendant for the Dubai-based low-cost airline FlyDubai has been locked up in the notorious Al Barsha pre-trial detention centre for violating a ‘draconian’ and widesweeping cybercrime law that makes it illegal for anyone to share images that the government doesn’t want to be public.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Airline Weekly
• Gordon Smith, Jay Shabat
FlightGlobal
• Jon Hemmerdinger
