Iraqi Airways, the national airline of Iraq, is planning to resume direct flights between Baghdad and Paris after a gap of 20 years.

Air France’s Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, 2009, might have flown into updrafts that shook the plane and also into lightning, which together contributed in knocking the plane out of the sky, according to aviation experts.

A meeting of the Health Ministers of the European Union (EU) has rejected a proposal by France to stop flights to and from Mexico, the country which has been hit by swine flu.

The United States-based US Airways has resumed non-stop flights between Charlotte in North Carolina, the United States, and Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France.