An airplane flying from Portugal to Angola was forced to make an emergency landing in Lisbon after a cargo worker was reported missing — and the man was found inside the cargo hold, alive but suffering from hypothermia. Lisbon airport spokesman Rui Oliveira told The Associated Press that the TAAG Angola Airlines plane left the Portuguese city of Porto around 10 a.m. Saturday en route to Angola's capital of Luanda. The worker was reported missing in Porto after loading cargo on the airplane and believed to be trapped inside the cargo hold, he said. The plane made an emergency landing in Lisbon at around 11 a.m. Oliveira did not disclose further details about the worker but said he's in stable condition recovering at a hospital in Lisbon.<br/>
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Federal aviation officials are satisfied that Allegiant Air is taking steps to address problems that inspectors found during a three-month review of the low-cost airline. Allegiant met a Friday deadline for telling the FAA how it would comply with suggested improvements in training, maintenance and procedures. None of the shortcomings were considered severe enough to warrant regulatory action against the airline. "We were always a safe airline. This gives credence to our claim," Jude Bricker, Allegiant's COO since January, said Friday. The FAA does a lengthy review of all airlines every five years but moved up its inspection of Allegiant by two years after an aborted takeoff, a plane that nearly ran out of fuel, and other events. Among the weaknesses identified by inspectors: An inspector saw an instructor giving wrong advice to a pilot training on a simulator to land after an engine failure, dispatchers didn't get required training about fatigue, ground workers didn't follow procedure while planes pushed away from the gate, and there were paperwork and training-material problems. "They found these findings, they are minor in nature by the FAA's own classifications, and we're going to not challenge them," Bricker said.<br/>
Monarch Airlines, the UK low-cost carrier, has won extra time to finalise details of a cash injection after the aviation regulator granted it a temporary extension to its operating licence. The extension gives the company until October 12 to finalise details of the extra funding it is due to receive from its shareholders, led by Greybull Capital, the investment vehicle of the London-based Meyohas Brothers. The annual renewal of Monarch’s Air Travel Organiser’s Licence, which expired at midnight on September 30, had brought to a head concerns about the company’s financial stability. The company has suffered, like other European airlines, from a combination of economic uncertainty, fears prompted by terrorist incidents and air traffic control disruption in France. The uncertainty forced Monarch on Monday to issue a statement reassuring travellers about its financial health and promising a “significant investment” in the company. The Civil Aviation Authority, which grants Atol certificates, announced the extension on Friday evening, less than four hours before the expiry of the licence, which would have forced Monarch to stop accepting new bookings. The authority said that, in order to issue the extension, it had required the shareholder to provide additional funding. “Monarch now has 12 days to satisfy the CAA that the group is able to meet the requirements for a full Atol licence,” the CAA said.<br/>
Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines will start flying to Auckland, joining a wave of new services between New Zealand and China launching during the next three months. The three-times a week Hainan service between Shenzhen in south-east China and Auckland will use an A330 aircraft. Shenzhen is located in southern China and is in Guangdong Province with a population of 18m people. Norris Carter, Auckland Airport's GM - aeronautical commercial, said the announcement was fantastic news for the airport and the New Zealand tourism industry. "This non-stop service will not only grow the number of visitors from Southern China, it will also give Chinese travellers further connecting flight options to Auckland from other areas in China through the extensive Hainan Airlines' network," said Carter.<br/>
Travellers are used to lost luggage, booking errors and on-board delays - but now an American airline is being sued for mixing up two children and sending them to the wrong cities. One of the boys’ mothers has filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airways for the mistake, saying she suffered “great emotional distress, extreme fear, horror, mental shock, mental anguish and psychological trauma”. Maribel Martinez said she was shocked when her five-year-old son, Andy Martinez, failed to turn up at John F Kennedy international airport in New York as she waited to meet him on 17 August. Her son had instead been put on a flight to Logan airport in Boston, Massachusetts – 215 miles away. To make matters worse, JetBlue staff escorted Andy to a woman he had never seen before, having told him he was being reunited with his mother. Meanwhile, another boy who was supposed to be flying to Boston had been put on the flight to New York that Andy was meant to be on. He was presented to Ms Martinez at the airport as her son, leading her to inform airline staff that she had never seen the boy before. The boy had even been given Andy’s passport to travel with. Both Andy and the other, unnamed boy were flying from Cibao international airport in the Dominican Republic. It took three hours for JetBlue to sort out what had happened and allow Andy and his mother to speak to each other on the phone. Martinez said at the time she thought he had been kidnapped and that she would never see him again.<br/>