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Air Baltic pilot faces at least eight more weeks in prison

The pilot of an Air Baltic flight from Oslo, whose crew tested positive for alcohol consumption while boarding the flight in Oslo last summer, has been ordered...

AirBaltic pilot sentenced to 10 months in prison

UPDATED: Prosecutors asked a court in Romerike, northeast of Oslo, to sentence an airBaltic pilot to a year in prison. He wound up with a...

AirBaltic co-pilot: ‘We lost control’

UPDATED: The co-pilot of an airBaltic flight testified in a Norwegian court on Monday that he was glad police stopped the entire flight crew before...

Flight crew face sentencing next week

Four members of an airBaltic flight crew arrested over the weekend for being under the influence of alcohol will get their day in court as early...

Flight crew fired and held in custody

UPDATED: The first officer of an airBaltic flight bound for Crete from Oslo on Saturday had a high blood alcohol level of 1.2, and pleaded...

Oslo’s pricey beer confirmed

The latest survey from GoEuro, which compares a variety of prices around Europe for the benefit of travelers, has confirmed that going out for...

Most drunk drivers are young men

Norway is known for its strict laws against drunk driving, but they don't keep all intoxicated motorists off the roads. New statistics show a huge increase in...

Vinmonopolet loses some holidays

Sales of wine and liquor are so politically charged in Norway that the issue of extended opening hours for the state liquor monopoly Vinmonopolet was...

Sales up at Vinmonopolet, despite higher duty-free quota

Norway's state liquor monopoly, Vinmonopolet, had worried that its sales would suffer after the government added two more bottles of wine to travelers' duty-free import...

Hot summer brews up beer profits

Record warm temperatures in Norway all summer long have led to another record, for local breweries. Two of Norway's biggest, Hansa Borg and Ringnes, were...
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