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Pilots at German flag carrier Lufthansa will resume their strike on Nov. 29-30, their union said, as talks over a dispute concerning wages ended without a resolution.

Pilots' union Cockpit said it was calling on members flying short-haul flights to stay away from work on Nov. 29, and those flying both short and long-haul destinations to stage a walkout on Nov. 30.

Pilots at German flagship carrier Lufthansa stayed away from work for a second straight day on Nov. 24, forcing the airline to scrap 912 flights and grounding 115,000 more passengers.

The airline had already scrapped nearly 900 flights that affected 100,000 passengers on Nov. 23 after pilots staged a walkout in a row over pay and working conditions.

British airline easyJet warned its profit would fall by over 25 percent this year as security issues dampened demand and low fuel prices meant there was more competition in the European short-haul market.

Over 88,000 Greek passengers booked air flights online via the airtickets website for the 3 months in summer. According to the website’s data, the majority of the Greeks (69%) chose domestic destinations for their holidays, with Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Rhodes, Chania and Santorini being on the top of their list of preferences.

Dutch low-cost carrier Transavia will launch flights between Sofia and Amsterdam as of May 2017, reported the carrier's website.

The flights will be carried out three times a week. Tickets are already available online and the first Sofia-Amsterdam flight is on May 10, 2017. The price of a one-way ticket is currently EUR 29.

Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz air will resume its flights between Sofia and Varna on March 26, 2017.

The company started its flight programme in the middle of July 2008 and stopped it in November 2010. Tickets can now be bought online and prices start at BGN 19.99 per basic fare.

Budget carrier Ryanair has announced that it will open a new base at Sofia Airport from 30 October and launch a new winter routes to the Bulgarian capital city from Liverpool and Glasgow.

Bulgaria's government decided on Wednesday to award the concession of the airport in Plovdiv, the country's second largest city, officials say.

At a ministerial meeting, a previous announcement by Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski was confirmed that envisages the opening of a procedure to grant a 35-year concession (the maximum initial length under Bulgarian law) on the airport.

A British stag party ended abruptly when a Ryanair pilot diverted a flight to Berlin, where German police temporarily took into custody six young men and levelled misdemeanour charges.

The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will start operating daily flights between the Bulgarian and Greek capitals from October 30.

The tickets for the Sofia-Athens route will go on sale on February 23, with the prices starting from EUR 24.99.

Since the beginning of the year, the company has considerably expanded the list of destinations accessible from Sofia.