Daily Roundup--February 22, 2012

The Frankfurt Airport strike is finally coming to and end tonight after five days. The union representing the ground workers who park and move aircraft has agreed to a new round of talks. Over 1000 flights were effected with about half belonging to Lufthansa.

Israel is banning the use of turboprop aircraft by two of its smaller airlines—Arkia and Israir. The country wants to put specially designed anti-missile equipment on all its nation’s airliners but the devices only work on jets. Israel fears that some anti-aircraft missiles formerly in the Libyan arsenal may have found their way into the hands of militants. Both airlines fly ATR’s and have been given two years to phase out the aircraft.