Flying High | Grounded

Baghdad – wish you were here? The small French airline Aigle Azur puts Iraq back on the flight map for Europeans with the launch of the first sustained commercial flights from Europe to Iraq since the 1990 Gulf War.

Scottish flyers to bypass London – travellers from Edinburgh airport will soon be able to travel direct to Asia and Australia cutting the hassle of long-haul flights

easyJet to drop Speedy Boarding in favour of allocated seating. The move will come as welcome news to those who regularly enter the speedy boarding scrum just to be able to sit next to their own children.

Grounded

Ryanair ends Belfast City Airport flights in airport runway extension row. But rival airline Flybe will be picking up some of the routes with new services to Bristol, East Midland and Liverpool.

German sinkhole swallows car – a huge 40m wide and 20m deep sinkhole has appeared in a German housing estate in the town of Schmalkalden – fortunately the car was the only casualty and no people were hurt.

More air travel disruption for France – following widespread strikes last week and additional planned strike on Thursday November 4th- 8th , more travel chaos is expected in France