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The same passenger who was discovered stowing away on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier in the week became unruly aboard a returning flight on Saturday, delaying the plane’s departure, an aviation official said. Flight 265 to John F. Kennedy International Airport took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris more than two hours after it left the gate on Saturday afternoon, according to the tracking website FlightAware. Morgan Durrant, a representative for Delta, said the delay was caused by “an unruly customer.” The passenger was removed from the flight by the French authorities, he said. The same passenger boarded Flight 264 to Paris from Kennedy International as a stowaway on Tuesday, the aviation official familiar with the episode said. The passenger got on that flight by bypassing two identity verification and boarding status stations, said a representative for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, or T.S.A. Police officers boarded Flight 264 when it landed at Charles de Gaulle on Wednesday, one of the passengers, Rob Jackson, later told The New York Times. Jackson said he overheard a flight attendant telling another crew member that a woman had been hopping from one lavatory to another throughout the flight without ever going to a seat.<br/>

South Korea's largest airline Korean Air will create one large low-cost carrier under its existing Jin Air brand after its merger with smaller rival Asiana Airlines. Combining Korean Air's Jin Air with Asiana's Air Busan and Air Seoul could create a low-cost carrier bigger than Korea's current largest budget airlines Jeju Air and T'Way. Korean Air expects to complete its 1.8t won ($1.3b) purchase of just over two-thirds of South Korea's debt-laden Asiana by the end of the year, having announced the deal in 2020. The merger will result in an enlarged Korean Air, a full service carrier, and an enlarged low-cost subsidiary, Jin Air. The Asiana acquisition received final regulatory approval from the European Union's competition regulator on Thursday, and is expecting the last remaining regulatory nod from U.S. authorities imminently in time to complete the deal by Dec. 20. "Jin Air, together with Asiana's Air Busan and Air Seoul, will be unified under a single Jin Air brand," a Korean Air spokesperson said. Together Jin Air, Air Busan and Air Seoul have around 58 aircraft and in November operated 8% of Korea's domestic and international capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. Jeju Air and T'Way operated just over 6% each, and have 42 and 39 planes respectively, according to Flightradar24 data.<br/>