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Hundreds of thousands of travelers in the United States are scrambling to reschedule flights after American Airlines canceled at least 570 more flights Friday to conduct safety inspections.

AMR Corp. voluntarily canceled about 200 flights or nearly 10 percent of its flights, on Wednesday to check plane wiring and its MD-80 planes as part of a national air worthiness directive by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specialists at SAS Scandinavian Airlines say the excessive weight of passengers threatens flight safety, Denmark's Jyllands Posten daily reported on Friday.

A spokesman for Deutsche Lufthansa AG confirmed Wednesday that Russia had banned Lufthansa Cargo flights over its territory, disrupting service on 49 connections a week from Frankfurt to Astana.

EDS today announced the successful implementation of a new flight planning and slot management system for Brussels Airlines, a leading Belgian airline.

The Chinese flag carrier Air China will launch a new service from Athens to Beijing, starting from November 28th, 2007. The new route will connect the capitals of the two countries: Greece and China.

The European Commission has banned Iranian airline Mahan Air and Ukrainian Mediterranean Airlines from flying to 27 EU member states, the EC press service said Tuesday.

Ryanair, this morning (Tue 28th August) confirmed that it had reached agreement with Brussels South Charleroi Airport over the weekend.

Sweden has suspended commercial flights to and from Iraq after an apparent rocket attack against a passenger jet as it took off from the northern city of Sulaimaniyah, the Nordic country's aviation authority said Tuesday.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their type ever produced and could prove invaluable in probing the ultra-fast motion of atoms and electrons.