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Germanwings has issued a statement saying there were 144, and not 142, passengers on board its plane that went down in the French Alps.

The company, which is a subsidiary of German national carrier Lufthansa, is due to comment on the developments at 14:00 GMT.

One German citizen of Turkish descent was on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, killing 150 people, Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced.

German, Spanish, and probably Turkish passengers were on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, French President François Hollande has said.

 He said that he could not say with "total certainty" that no French nationals were aboard the Germanwings flight.

An Airbus A320 crashed at the Digne Region, south of France that is an hour north of Marseille.

In an official announcement, French President Francois Hollande said that no survivors are likely and that most passengers aboard the place were German.

Only two of the ten scheduled flights between Bulgaria's Sofia Airport and Munich and Frankfurt will be conducted on Friday as the pilots of German airline Lufthansa continue their strike.

Short and medium haul flights to Europe, including all flights between Sofia and the two German airports, were cancelled on Wednesday, when the strike began.

Pilots for German airline Lufthansa announced they would extend until March 20 a strike that has already hit tens of thousands of passengers and seen hundreds of flights cancelled in a dispute over a retirement scheme.
      

German airline Lufthansa cancelled around 750 short- and medium-haul flights Wednesday, hitting tens of thousands of passengers, as pilots staged fresh strike action in a bitter dispute over early retirement.
      

All ten Lufthansa-operated flights between Sofia and Munich and Frankfurt are cancelled on Wednesday due to the announced 12-hour strike of the airline's pilots.

The German airline cancelled on Wednesday 750 out of its 1400 scheduled domestic and European, which is expected to affect 80 000 passengers, the Business Insider reports.

Fraport AG said it may take until next year to complete the acquisition of airport assets in Greece as the new government there reviews privatization plans, while adding that earnings will increase in 2015 even without the deal.

Azerbaijan Airlines and Turkish Airlines have signed a codeshare agreement on routes between Azerbaijan and Turkey effective from March 29.