Airline Suspends Flights as Passengers Can’t Meet COVID-19 Requirements
Lion Air is temporarily suspending all flights just days after resuming operations, citing passengers’ inability to comply with COVID-19 requirements…. Read More »
Everything Amtrak is Doing to Protect Travelers
As travel restrictions are lifted, Americans are looking to hit the road again, and Amtrak is ready to provide a safe… Read More »
Velas Resorts Invites Future Travelers to Dream Together
As hotels and resorts throughout many popular tourist destinations remained closed over the past few months, eager travelers sat home… Read More »
Hyatt Extends Flexible Cancellation Policy for Stays Through July 2021
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is extending its change and cancellation policy for stays through July 2021 to provide guests with added flexibility as… Read More »
Hotel CEO’s See Enhanced Role for Travel Advisors
Chief executives of major hotel companies speaking on a virtual panel see an enhanced role for travel advisors as the… Read More »
CDC Creates Color-Code to Classify Cruise Ships’ COVID-19 Risk
In an update to its interim guidance amid an ongoing ‘No Sail’ order, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has… Read More »
Silversea Unveils New Cruise Itineraries for 2021/22
Silversea Cruises, the leading ultra-luxury cruise line, has unveiled 86 new itineraries for winter 2021/2022 and is opening an exclusive… Read More »
Carnival CEO Writes Open Letter Acknowledging the Realities of Racism
Carnival CEO Arnold Donald penned a letter that acknowledges the challenges we face as a nation after the events of the last… Read More »
Carnival Cruise Line Repatriates 3,000 Crew Members
Carnival Cruise Line has announced the successful repatriation of nearly 3,000 crew members through the Port of Dubrovnik in Croatia… Read More »
Delta Air Lines retires MD-88s, MD-90s
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) retired the last of its McDonnell Douglas twinjets – and the last MDs… Read More »
British Airways converts two B777s into freighters
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) has converted two of its B777-200(ER)s into makeshift freighters, deploying them to Beijing Capital in… Read More »
Ryanair’s Maltese subsidiary begins COVID-19 layoffs
Malta Air, a subsidiary of Irish holding company Ryanair Holdings, has started laying off staff due to the financial impact… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet cleared to conduct drone trials
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has been given official clearance to begin trials using drones to deliver medical supplies and other… Read More »
Aerolíneas Argentinas set for $880mn state subsidies in 2020
Aerolineas Argentinas (AR, Buenos Aires Ezeiza) may receive USD880 million in state subsidies if it is to survive for the… Read More »
IndiGo, GoAir granted more time for A320neo engine changes
The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended to August, the deadline for IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int’l)… Read More »
Lufthansa’s supervisory board approves bailout
Lufthansa’s Supervisory Board has accepted the revised terms of a proposed EUR9 billion euro (USD9.9 billion) bailout although the funding… Read More »
Southwest Airlines Offering Buyout Package to Employees
Southwest Airlines, facing what it says is likely 30 percent less passenger traffic this fall compared to last year, is… Read More »
TSA Eyes Passenger Self-Screening at Airports
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to develop a passenger self-screening system that’s being compared to the self-checkout kiosks… Read More »
UN Agency Air Travel Guidelines Include Restricted Bathroom Visits
When you gotta go, you better go before getting on the plane. New guidelines for dealing with the coronavirus on… Read More »
EasyJet still in talks with Swiss gov’t over aid
easyJet Europe (EC, Vienna) chief executive officer Thomas Haagensen has expressed disappointment that easyJet Switzerland (DS, Geneva) has not received… Read More »
Florida’s Eastern Airlines adds first Boeing 777
Eastern Airlines (2D, Miami Int’l) is in the process of adding its first B777-200(ER) in the form of N771KW (msn… Read More »
South African Airways seeks to return 19 leased aircraft
South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) is planning to return 19 out of its 40 dry-leased aircraft and is renegotiating the… Read More »
Air Canada in $1bn share offering, adds to cargo network
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has raised the size of a financing effort revealed last week to around CAD1.4 billion… Read More »
Virgin Australia administrator chooses two final bidders
Deloitte has announced that it has selected two US private investment firms, Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners, as the… Read More »
Scatsta, UK to close in late 2Q20
The closure of Scatsta Airport, initially revealed in early March, has been confirmed to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. It… Read More »
Turkish Airlines looks to defer A350s, mulls freighters
Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul New) will take delivery of its first A350-900s which are already under construction but is in… Read More »