Would you board flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th?

British regional airline Flybe flew more passengers and saw ticket revenues improve over the past three months, despite higher fuel prices and the tough economic conditions.

Loss-making airline Flybe pressed ahead with expansion plans today as it entered in to a joint venture to buy a Finnish airline for €25m.

UK regional airline Flybe today said it will continue its expansion into continental Europe after becoming one of only three major European airlines to report profits throughout the recession.

Germany’s Air Berlin is joining the Oneworld Alliance in a bid to offer its customers more flight destinations.

FABIO CAPELLO will pick up the phone to make the call he dreaded having to make, hoping to hear some good news from Wayne Rooney.

Helsinki: First it was free flights, hotel rooms and magazine subscriptions. Now, Finnair Oyj, Finland’s biggest airline, is offering frequent flyers free plastic surgery in exchange for air miles.

An Italian academic feared to have been another victim of the Russian hit squad which killed ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko remains under close observation in hospital today.

Russia’s Transport Ministry said today that experts had discovered radiation on a Finnair plane in a Moscow airport.

TENS of thousands of passengers remained stranded last night as British Airways battled to clear a backlog of flights at Heathrow Airport following an end to unofficial action by its staff.

Managing director of Heathrow Airport Mick Temple has said days of delays face passengers at the airport after British Airways cancelled all its flights because of an unofficial walkout by baggage handlers.

BRITISH Airways has cancelled all flights into and out of Heathrow Airport until this evening because of the unofficial strike by baggage handlers.

Tourism Ireland has announced that it is to open a new regional headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

British Airways has signed a deal with Swiss International Air Lines to make the Swiss carrier part of the Oneworld global airline alliance.

Air France is in merger talks with Dutch counterpart KLM that could see the French government float shares in KLM rather than sell part of its capital in the national carrier.

International airlines scrambled to divert or cancel flights to the United States on Tuesday following a wave of airborne terror attacks on New York and Washington.