Airplanes soaring through the sky with barely a soul on board sound like a mix-up at the gate. But these so-called "ghost flights" happen more than you'd think, and often on purpose.

Ghost flights are commercial planes operating with few or no passengers. The practice gained public attention during the pandemic, when demand collapsed but some airlines kept flying near-empty routes ...

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The EU is to act "very rapidly" to help airlines struggling from the new coronavirus outbreak by proposing a law to stop "ghost flights" to keep airport slots, European Commission President Ursula von ...