Canada’s Sunwing receives takeover offer, says CEO
The chief executive of Sunwing Travel Group, Stephen Hunter, has revealed that its low-cost subsidiary Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson)… Read More »
New Data Suggests Leisure & Hospitality Jobs Hit Hardest by COVID-19 Pandemic
New data suggests that around 40 percent of all jobs lost since February 2020 have been in the Leisure and Hospitality industry…. Read More »
Marriott International Plans to More Than Double All-Inclusive Portfolio
Marriott International and Sunwing Travel Group announced on Feb. 9 that 19 of Sunwing’s Blue Diamond Resorts’ properties will become… Read More »
United, American, Hawaiian warn of job losses in early 2Q21
Airlines in the United States have issued fresh warnings of job losses once the second round of payroll support expires… Read More »
Singapore Airlines converts B787-10 orders to B777-9s
Singapore Airlines Group has announced that it has converted orders for fourteen B787-10s into eleven B777-9s as a part of… Read More »
Hainan Airlines Holdings to restructure up to ¥72.5bn debts
Hainan Airlines Holding revealed in a disclosure on February 9 that it expects to restructure interest-bearing debts amounting to no… Read More »
Moves to disqualify Boutique Air from Jackson EAS tender
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) and Air Choice One (3E, St. Louis Lambert Int’l) are trying to have Boutique… Read More »
Sun Country Airlines outlines plans to IPO on Nasdaq
Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul) has outlined plans for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange,… Read More »
Samoa’s Talofa Airways suspends flights over COVID-19
Talofa Airways (Apia Faleolo) has suspended scheduled services until Samoa reopens its borders, the airline confirmed to ch-aviation by email…. Read More »
W.Va. airport set to begin $8.3M expansion project
Raleigh County Memorial Airport in Beaver, W.Va., has secured funding and will begin taking construction bids for an $8.3 million… Read More »
Mo. airport building inclusive play area
Kansas City International Airport is planning to build an inclusive children’s play area in the airport’s new terminal, which will… Read More »
India’s gov’t spotlights Assam for aviation development
As part of a major boost to infrastructure development that the Indian government of Narendra Modi has announced for the… Read More »
American explains at-home COVID-19 testing process
American Airlines walks through the at-home COVID-19 testing process, which allows travelers who test negative to avoid quarantine requirements at… Read More »
Delta maintenance unit services first Trent 7000 engine
Delta Air Lines’ Miami maintenance center completed its first engine maintenance visit for a Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engine from a… Read More »
Delta CEO: Domestic testing mandate “horrible idea”
Requiring a negative COVID-19 test for domestic flights would be a “horrible idea for a lot of reasons,” Delta CEO… Read More »
Hawaiian Airlines celebrates the Hawaiian language
Hawaiian Airlines is celebrating Hawaiian language month by teaching passengers how to order drinks in Hawaiian and partnering with native… Read More »
RwandAir granted Ghana 5th freedom rights to US
RwandAir (WB, Kigali) plans to launch scheduled services from Kigali via Accra, Ghana to New York JFK in December 2021… Read More »
Lauda Europe to open Zadar, Croatia base from 2Q21
Lauda Europe (LW, Malta Int’l) is to open a base at Zadar, Croatia, from March 30, 2021, to serve destinations in Germany, Vienna,… Read More »
Aer Lingus takes €150mn loan from Irish sovereign fund
Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) has extracted a EUR150 million euro (USD180 million) three-year loan from the Ireland Strategic Investment… Read More »
HVAC upgrades can help hotels serve as care sites
Hotels can be converted into alternate care sites during the COVID-19 pandemic, but doing so poses challenges, including a lack… Read More »
Mich. city’s homeless find help via hotel outreach
Scores of homeless people in Jackson, Mich., have been accommodated through a partnership between the America’s Best hotel and a… Read More »
How Marriott’s marketing woos a new breed of traveler
Marriott International has partnered with Verizon Media to re-gear its marketing approach in response to the pandemic, emphasizing mobile contact… Read More »
Texas-size deal: $95K per night for whole hotel
Those for whom a pandemic-era getaway seems priceless can put their desire to the test at a hotel in downtown… Read More »
Friday reopening set for Legoland Calif.’s Castle Hotel
The reopening of the Castle Hotel at Legoland California in Carlsbad has been set for Friday. Safety measures will be… Read More »
Graduate Hotels will enroll in C3 dining expansion
Graduate Hotels is among the first participants in a collaborative expansion campaign by restaurant innovator C3 that engages hotels, shopping… Read More »
Free virus tests available at Hyatt Latin America sites
Guests at Hyatt Hotels’ 19 Latin America resorts who plan to return to the US can receive free coronavirus tests… Read More »