American Airlines Expands COVID-19 Requirements App
American Airlines announced the expansion of its acceptance of the VeriFLY app, a mobile health wallet that guides customers to track… Read More »
JetBlue Expands COVID-19 Testing Options
JetBlue announced a new seamless testing and verification procedure for customers traveling to Aruba. As part of a partnership between… Read More »
Iberostar Debuts Kids Shows on Safety, the Environment at Newly Opened Mexico Resorts
In tandem with the reopening of resorts in Mexico, Iberostar unveiled new shows focusing on safety and the environment for its Star… Read More »
How This Travel Advisor Pulled off a Successful Destination Wedding in Cancun
Destination wedding specialist Suzy Mkhitarian began forging a partnership with Playa Hotels & Resorts in 2017. That partnership was substantially strengthened when… Read More »
Bahia Principe Grand El Portillo Reopens Following $10 Million Facelift
Bahia Hotel & Resorts’ Bahia Principe Grand El Portillo in Samana, Dominican Republic, has reopened following a $10 million renovation. “The… Read More »
AIC Hotel Group Planning Santo Domingo Marriott Hotels
AIC Hotel Group announced LATITUD 18, a hotel development project with Marriott International that will feature a 208-room Marriott Hotel and… Read More »
The Cove at Atlantis Paradise Island To Reopen in February 2021
The Cove at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas will reopen to guests on February 11, 2021. The 600-suite luxury hotel will… Read More »
Universal Orlando Opens Newest Hotel Ahead of Holidays
The travel world is still feeling the impact of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, but travelers have a new hotel option… Read More »
Crystal Extends Relaxed Booking Policies for All 2021 Itineraries
Crystal has extended its relaxed booking policies to all 2021 voyages, including Crystal Cruises, Crystal River Cruises, Crystal Yacht Cruises and… Read More »
Carnival Cruise Line Takes Delivery of Mardi Gras
Carnival Cruise Line took delivery of its highly anticipated new ship, Mardi Gras, in a live virtual signing ceremony held… Read More »
Shareholders in Korea’s Asiana back 3-to-1 capital cut
In another move that smoothes its acquisition by Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon), shareholders at debt-riddled Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul… Read More »
Malaysia Airlines’ fate to be resolved by YE20 – minister
Malaysia Airlines’ restructuring is expected to be completed by December 31, the country’s deputy finance minister, Abdul Rahim Bakri, divulged… Read More »
Harare set to absorb Air Zimbabwe debt
Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has decided to assume the debt of Air Zimbabwe (UM, Harare Int’l) and to extend its reconstruction period… Read More »
Boeing restarts B737 MAX deliveries
Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) has resumed B737 MAX deliveries for the first time since the type’s global grounding in March… Read More »
Lithuania’s Heston Airlines takes first A320
Heston Airlines (Vilnius) has taken delivery of its first A320-200, LY-FJI (msn 2157), and intends to shortly add a further… Read More »
Kenyan carriers to serve secessionist Somaliland
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) and other Kenyan airlines will, by end of March 2021, commence direct flights between… Read More »
Cameroon’s Camair-Co moots fleet rebuild
Director-General Louis Georges Njipendi Kuotu told Newsaero that one of the carrier’s two MA-60s – TJ-QDA (msn 903) – had… Read More »
Sandals Resorts Unveils Jamaica Property Upgrades
Sandals Resorts has announced a reimagined Dutch Village at its Sandals South Coast resort in White House, Jamaica, including the debut of the company’s… Read More »
A Romantic Proposal at Hyatt Ziva Puerto Vallarta
Hyatt Ziva Puerto Vallarta has always been, and continues to be, one of Stacy Cahill’s favorite resorts. “While it’s not… Read More »
Baha Mar Mega-Resort Reopens
Nassau’s Baha Mar mega-resort re-opened today featuring “heightened safety and health measures,” said company officials. The Cable Beach property’s anchor, the… Read More »
Sandals Chief Questions Resort Link to Grenada COVID-19 Outbreak
Sandals Resorts International was prominent in travel news this week following a COVID-19 outbreak in Grenada that local press reports linked to… Read More »
The Grinch Joins Carnival Fans to Deliver Holiday Cards to Crew Members
The Grinch joined loyal Carnival Cruise Line fans to deliver more than 10,000 hand-written cards to crew members who are manning ships… Read More »
MSC Cruises Reveals Extensive Summer 2022 Program
MSC Cruises has opened sales for the summer 2022 season in the Caribbean and Mediterranean; the company said the 2022 Northern Europe schedule… Read More »
Aeroméxico set to restart B737 MAX ops
Aeroméxico (AM, México City Int’l) will become the world’s second airline to restart B737-8 operations when it does so on December 21, ch-aviation schedule… Read More »
China’s Hainan Airlines shores up cash pile
Hainan Airlines (HU, Haikou) has diverted funds raised to acquire aircraft in 2016 to instead “replenish the working capital” of… Read More »
Qatar, Saudi Arabia near overflights deal – report
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are in advanced talks about resolving their lengthy diplomatic dispute, three sources familiar with the negotiations… Read More »