CNN to cut airport network, citing drop in travel
CNN will shut down its airport network March 31, citing “the steep decline in airport traffic because of COVID-19, coupled… Read More »
Palladium Unveils Onsite COVID-19 Testing at Its Resorts
Palladium Hotel is making COVID-19 PCR tests available to its hotel guests in the wake of the Centers for Disease… Read More »
AIC Hotel Group Offering Free COVID-19 Testing, Medical Assistance
All-inclusive Hard Rock Hotels throughout Mexico and the Caribbean, including UNICO 20 87 Hotel Riviera Maya and Nobu Hotel Los Cabos… Read More »
25% of business travelers balk at COVID-19 vaccine
One-quarter of business travelers are not interested in taking the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available and 36% do not… Read More »
Aurora Expedition Opens Pre-Registration for 2022-23 Antarctic Voyages
Aurora Expeditions, which received record bookings for its 2022 Arctic and global season, has opened pre-registration for its Antarctic 2022-23… Read More »
Oceania Cruises Unveils Another 180-Day World Voyage
Oceania Cruises, which pioneered six-month-long World Cruises in 2015, is offering another one in 2023. Sales open Jan. 27, 2021. The “Around… Read More »
Cruise Lines Waiting on Additional Guidance From CDC to Begin Test Sailings
Nearly three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) allowed its no-sail order to expire in favor of a… Read More »
Silversea’s New Silver Dawn Floats Out in Italy
Silversea Cruises’ new ship Silver Dawn touched water for the first time during a float-out ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard… Read More »
Royal Caribbean To Operate Homeport in Barbados for First Time
Royal Caribbean International will operate cruises from Barbados for the first time starting in December 2021. The Grandeur of the Seas… Read More »
American Queen Steamboat Company and Victory Cruise Lines Announce New Offer
American Queen Steamboat Company (AQSC) and Victory Cruise Lines (VCL), part of the Hornblower Group, just launched both lines’ 2021… Read More »
Silversea Cruises Offers $200 Bonus Commission Through Feb. 28
Silversea Cruises is offering $200 bonus commissions for new bookings made by Feb. 28 on any voyage departing from July 1… Read More »
Carnival Celebrates First Steel Cut for New Excel-Class Ship
Carnival Cruise Line celebrated the start of construction of its new Excel-class ship, Carnival Celebration, with the first steel-cutting at the Meyer… Read More »
Spain’s Volotea ends B717 operations
Volotea (V7, Asturias) has retired all of its remaining B717-200s and will exclusively operate A319-100s going forward, according to multiple… Read More »
Italy’s EGO Airways outlines network for 2021
EGO Airways (EGW, Milan Malpensa) has outlined the details of its domestic Italian network with the launch of scheduled operations… Read More »
Medical cannabis firm seeks shell merger for Israel’s Arkia
Arkia Israeli Airlines (IZ, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has signed an agreement with Canzon, a developer of cannabidiol (CBD) medical… Read More »
Korea’s Eastar Jet to file for receivership
Eastar Jet (ESR, Seoul Gimpo) plans to file for court receivership by the end of January in a last-ditch effort… Read More »
Atlas Air orders four more B747-8 freighters
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has announced an incremental order for four B747-8(F)s, which are due to deliver by the end… Read More »
SkyWest takes over Mason City/Fort Dodge EAS routes
SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) branded as United Express, replaces Air Choice One (3E, St. Louis Lambert Int’l) as… Read More »
Ryanair to start MAX operations on UK routes
Ryanair Holdings is looking to deploy its forthcoming B737-8-200s to the United Kingdom in the first stage, the Chief Executive… Read More »
Icelandair mulls replacing B757s with A321neo(LR)s
Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) is considering several scenarios as it searches for a long-term solution to replace its ageing B757… Read More »
PPP changes include more eligible expenses
Changes to the Paycheck Protection Program that reopens today include an eight- to 24-week window to use funds and a… Read More »
Different tax form required for contractor payments
Businesses need to use the 1099-NEC form to report contractor income on taxes this year rather than the 1099-MISC used… Read More »
Marriott, Airbnb halt funding to pols defying election
Marriott International and Airbnb are among a host of major corporations that have suspended campaign donations to legislators who voted… Read More »
Where in the US to honeymoon
The pandemic has played havoc with many a wedding but the honeymoon must go on, and Travel & Leisure has… Read More »
Avoya Travel launches new messaging platform
Independent agencies now have a new way to communicate with clients using Avoya Conversations, a new platform launched by Avoya… Read More »
Alaska adds new top status for its most frequent flyers
Alaska Airlines is adding a new top elite frequent-flyer status for passengers who earn 100,000 miles in a year. MVP… Read More »