Carnival Corp.’s AIDA Cruises to Restart Cruising October 17
Carnival Corp. & plc’s German brand, AIDA Cruises, will resume cruising in Italy on Oct. 17, becoming the second Carnival… Read More »
AmaWaterways Suspends Remaining 2020 River Cruise Season
AmaWaterways has suspended its remaining 2020 river cruise season, including all regularly scheduled departures in Europe, Asia, and Africa. This suspension does not… Read More »
Congressman Raises Questions About CDC’s No-Sail Order
U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat from New York, is questioning whether the Trump administration interfered with the Centers… Read More »
United Airlines Starts COVID-19 Testing Program at SFO
United Airlines is making it easy to get a COVID-19 test before flying to Hawaii. Customers traveling on United from San Francisco International Airport… Read More »
National Car Rental Extends Loyalty Benefits Through 2021
National Car Rental has announced it is extending its loyalty benefits by a full year, meaning that Emerald Club Program… Read More »
Indulge in Grand Hyatt Playa del Carmen’s Luxurious Rooms and Suites
The five-star Grand Hyatt Playa del Carmen occupies an ideal spot in the renowned Riviera Maya resort town along Mexico’s magnificent Caribbean coastline. It’s… Read More »
Banyan Tree Mayakoba Undergoes $50 Million Expansion
As increasing numbers of travelers seek out spacious, private accommodations in the wake of the pandemic, Banyan Tree Mayakoba in Riviera Maya… Read More »
RIU Launches Its New Website RIU Pro
The hotel chain RIU Hotels & Resorts has just introduced RIU Pro, its new tool for tourism industry professionals. Travel agents have traditionally… Read More »
Biggest Changes Cruise Passengers Can Expect Once Ships Return to Sailing
Cruising in the ‘New Normal’ The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the travel industry, but perhaps no sector has… Read More »
Seabourn Venture Inaugural Winter Season Itineraries Now on Sale
Seabourn, the ultra-luxury resort at sea, has opened for sale the revised inaugural expedition season itineraries for Seabourn Venture, the… Read More »
Disney Cruise Line Announces Early 2022 Itineraries
Disney Cruise Line unveiled its early 2022 itineraries on Thursday, which will include Disney’s highly anticipated return to Hawaii with… Read More »
Hurtigruten Establishes Separate Expedition Cruise Division
Hurtigruten has created a separate division for expedition voyages and one for its classic Norway coastal cruises. The new Hurtigruten Expeditions… Read More »
Royal Caribbean Official Expects Cruise Restart Announcement as Early as Next Week
A Royal Caribbean executive revealed on Wednesday that she expects a potential restart of cruise operations announcement to come as early as… Read More »
Atlas Air signs charter deal with Cainiao for LatAm flights
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, the parent of Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK) and Polar Air Cargo (PO, New York… Read More »
American Airlines to move Beijing airport in 1Q21
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced it would use Beijing Daxing Int’l instead of Beijing Capital once its services… Read More »
Minnesota’s Sun Country moots IPO plans while cutting jobs
US low-cost carrier, Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul), plans to make another push for an initial public offering in… Read More »
India’s airlines owe airport authority $328mn
Airlines have overdue payments owed to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) totalling INR24 billion rupees (USD328 million), due to… Read More »
LIAT may return to Caribbean skies in mid4Q20
Caribbean regional airline, LIAT (LI, Antigua), currently in administration, may return to operations as early as November 2020, according to… Read More »
Emirati investor to bid for Israel’s Israir
Building on the recent normalisation of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and hopeful to capitalise on the… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia secures $68mn export-boosting state loan
Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) has managed to secure an IDR1 trillion rupiah (USD67.9 million) loan facility from the Indonesian… Read More »
Korea’s Eastar Jet to slash staff numbers to lure investor
Eastar Jet (ZE, Seoul Gimpo) revealed on October 13 that it would have to lay off more than half of… Read More »
American Airlines ramps up Caribbean service
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has geared up the resumption of its services across the Caribbean, adding 300 weekly flights… Read More »
Italy’s Neos replaces B767-300(ER)s with second-hand B787-9s
Neos (NO, Milan Malpensa) has agreed to take over two dry-leased B787-9s from Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen), which is in… Read More »
Allegiant Air “inundated” with used A320 offers
Having announced its intention to add second-hand A320-200s retired by carriers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Allegiant… Read More »
Copa Airlines resumes Toronto service from mid-Oct 2020
Copa Airlines this week is resuming service to Canada, where the airline once again operates Panama City – Toronto route…. Read More »
Norwegian Air UK delays service resumption to March 2021
Norwegian Air UK in recent schedule update confirmed the delay of planned service resumption. The airline previously planned to resume… Read More »