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If elected, Labour will force airlines to show full prices with fees included up front and refund customers for cancelled or significantly delayed flights.

The National Carrier says when flights are cancelled for reasons within its control, travellers are automatically rebooked with the option of a refund or credit instead.

For cancellations it can't control, it rebooks customers or offers a credit.

A Defence Force commander warned that New Zealand would be cut off from information exchanges within the Five Eyes intelligence group if it did not sign up to build a new digital super system.

It affects different people differently.

Obviously, the National Airline is affected by it most significantly because it forms the largest part of its cost.

If you're a ferry business like South Sea Cruises, like Captain Cook Cruises, Even if you're just doing dive trips, that forms quite a significant part of your costs.

So your costs have gone up.

Fiji has been lucky in terms of being still very much in demand, and that's for a few reasons.

We believe a large part of that might be that people were not keen to travel further from Australia and New Zealand in terms of going north.

The impact of the fuel and what it's doing to the airlines and the ability of different airlines to be able to pick up fuel, the reduction in some of the frequencies for other international airlines has made Australians and New Zealanders who have been to Fiji before consider coming back to Fiji or choose to come to Fiji rather than take a longer distant flight.

Our high season has been seen to spill over into the, as we're supposed to be going into our shoulder and then low season, but we can't see that letting up.

Well, it was a terrorist attack, which, you know, is pretty big words coming from the UAE.

Western and Gulf officials have named the Omani National Hamam al-Armani, and a Wall Street Journal and CNN reported that Oman had barred him from flying and removed him from its national airline over his extremist views in the past.

Jesus Christ.

Two other pilots took control and landed the plane in Tabuk in Saudi Arabia while Israeli and Gulf officials investigated whether he acted alone or under the direction of someone else, quite possibly the Iran or some Sunni extremist network.

They are normally pretty silent and want to limit the amount of reputational damage that they take from issues like this.

There's been historically plane crashes, well, at least one that I know of, of an Emirates plane in Dubai, which they tried their very hardest to keep out of mainstream media.

so you know they definitely try to avoid a bit of publicity here so for them to come out and say that it was a terrorist attack is a pretty big move and like clearly it was undeniable that this person had terrorist ideology and that wanted to conduct the attack What's kind of interesting is that Oman had already barred him from flying and removed him from the National Airline over his views.

Like, how did he end up flying for FlyDubai? I think some serious questions are going to be had within Dubai, probably by the government of the Emirate, to figure out how this guy got into his position of flying a plane.

New details have emerged involving the fly Dubai co-pilot who officials say nearly crashed a flight with one hundred and eighty-two people on board this past Wednesday.

According to sources familiar with the incident, the co-pilot was removed from a previous job at Oman's National Airline last year due to concerns about his extremist views.

The pilot is an Omani citizen named Hammam Al Hammami.

The G7 nations have agreed to release one hundred million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their reserves as diesel prices hit record highs.

For Radio Cayman News, I am Josh Cottrell.

Cayman Airways President and Chief Executive Officer Fabian Worms will retire in December after 31 years with the National Airline.

He joined Cayman Airways in 1995 and became President and CEO in 2009, making him the longest-serving chief executive in the airline's history.

CAL says further details on the leadership transition will be announced at a later date.