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A fire has left the main airport in Rome - Fiumicino closed for an indefinite term.

The incident occurred on Wednesday around 5pm and the fire left the main terminal in Rome closed for international flights.

No material damages have been reported yet. Some of the airport employees have been affected by the heavy smoke, as reported by airport officials.

AGERPRES correspondent Doroteea Purcarea reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta met the CEO of Qatar Airways on Sunday, and subsequently announced he submitted a call for investments in a package comprising the Otopeni Airport near Bucharest and the Romanian airline TAROM.

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After the Germanwings tragedy which cost the lives of 150 people, several medical “gaps” in check-ups of pilots in Italian Alitalia have seen the light of day.

According to Corriere della Sera, captain Maurizio Foglietti who had recently transported Italian President Mattarella from Rome to Palermo, shot at his brother in his home.

A bomb threat forced a HK airlines heading from Beijing to Hong Kong to make an emergency landing in Wuhan, China. Posts on WeChat and Weibo mention that passengers have been evacuated from the flight. Police and firefighters have surrounded the aircraft and a search is underway.

TAROM is launching today its Dragobete [Romania's love-celebrating holiday, marked on Feb. 24] offer by selling tickets with a starting price of 99 euros for round trips, with all charges included, according to an airline's release.

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A TAROM flight between Bucharest and Amman returned on Sunday to Bucharest with no passengers aboard due to the crew exceeding the legal rest time after the flight was diverted due to unfavorable conditions in the Jordanian capital.

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Transport Minister Ioan Rus convened the leadership of TAROM national airline and the representatives of its trade union at the headquarters of the ministry on Tuesday with a view to unblocking the situation that led to the delay or cancellation of flights in the last two days.

TAROM Airlines, in a release to AGERPRES on Thursday, informed that it is going to introduce an additional number of flights, during the 2014-2015 winter season, on four of its already existing routes.

Thus, the Bucharest-Rome-Bucharest route will have two extra flights added, reaching thus to six weekly flights.

Russia "considers banning overflights of Western carriers"

MOSCOW -- Russia is reportedly considering the possibility of restricting or banning Western companies from flying over Siberia on Europe-Asia routes.

This would represent Moscow's answer to the sanctions imposed against it by Western countries, the Russian daily Vedomosti is reporting.

TAROM airlines has announced that it will resume its regular flights from Bucharest to and from Tel Aviv.