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A KLM passenger plane swayed side to side as its pilot struggled to land it at Manchestor airport just as Storm Desmond hit. Strong guts of winds bounced it up and down as its wheels hit the runway, blowing it back into the air.

An Air France Boeing 777 en route from Mauritius to Paris was evacuated at Mombasa airport, Kenya, after a suspicious device was found in the plane’s toilets. Air France Chief Frederic Gagey said the fake bomb device was a cardboard box, paper and a timer and described the fake bomb placement as an “extremely aggressive act”.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are resuming morning Athens-Amsterdam fights from March 27 through to October 29, 2016. The flights will depart from Athens at 6 a.m. and arrive at Amsterdam at 8.30 a.m. local time. A return flight will leave Amsterdam at 8.35 p.m. and arrive in Athens at 00.50 a.m. the next day.

China and Germany signed a deal on Oct. 29 that will see Chinese airlines buy 130 jets manufactured by Airbus Group SE, sending shares in the European plane maker higher.

The order, valued at $17 billion, was announced after Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel met China's Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.

Air France-KLM's human resources manager was "almost lynched" Oct. 5 by striking workers, who stripped him of his shirt in a protest over the ailing airline's plan to cut 2,900 jobs.

Delta Airlines announced the doubling of its flights to Athens next summer from its New York City hub at John F. Kennedy airport. Flights will begin from March 27, 2016, starting at five times per week and increasing to a daily service from May 24. An additional flight will be added from May 27, 2016, to operate on a daily basis.

US giant Boeing has signed deals with Chinese firms to sell 300 aircraft and open a completion centre in the Asian giant, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, as President Xi Jinping began his first state visit to the United States.
 

An 18-year old Greek, Valentinos Tzekas, developed an application to track and meet people at a distance of 1.5 km and at 5 klm in big cities.

“I created the application because everyone at my age is online when they go out. This is an easy way to find each other,” its founder Valentinos Tzekas said.

Romania's cash-strapped national airline, Tarom, is to open preliminary talks with several companies interested in restructuring and taking a significant stake in the state-controlled company.

New York City’s busy airports were the target of several anonymous reports on Monday of international flight arrivals containing chemical weapons. Expectedly, the US air command scrambled jet fighters, with planes escorting one Air France passenger jet into JFK.