Google, Volara Team Up for Contactless Hotel Options
Volara announced a new partnership that will enable hotels across the world to deploy the best of Google, including contactless guest… Read More »
Sexy and Sanitized: Clothes Optional, Masks Mandatory at Nude Resorts
Coronavirus pandemic be damned. Adults-only, clothing-optional resorts are pressing forward with their original naked ambitions – sorry, couldn’t resist –… Read More »
Sandos Properties in Riviera Maya and Los Cabos Obtain Safe Travel Seal
Due to Sandos Hotels & Resorts’ newly advanced hygiene protocols and improved practices to welcome guests back, it has earned the… Read More »
Palace Resorts Is Committed to the Health and Safety of All Guests
With ten oceanfront resorts, Palace Resorts invites travelers of all ages to soak in the beauty of the beach, along with luxuries… Read More »
Carnival Corporation Publishes its 2019 Sustainability Report
The world’s largest cruise operator, Carnival Corporation & plc, today published its tenth annual, company-wide sustainability report. The new report, entitled… Read More »
British Virgin Islands lift One Caribbean’s suspension
The Government of the British Virgin Islands has lifted the suspension of OCL Barbados/One Caribbean’s Foreign Operator Permit (FOP) after… Read More »
Fiji Airways takes $50mn ADB loan, minister blasts Qantas
Fiji Airways (FJ, Nadi) will obtain a USD50 million loan from the Asian Development Bank, the archipelago nation’s economy minister,… Read More »
Pakistan’s PIA tenders for widebody charters to the EU
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) has launched a pre-qualification procedure for the chartering in of widebody… Read More »
Qantas proposes to outsource ground handling
Qantas Group has announced a plan to review its ground handling operations at a number of Australian airports, which could… Read More »
ExpressJet Airlines to end flying in late 3Q20
ExpressJet Airlines (EV, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is planning to terminate all of its flight operations on September 30, 2020, given… Read More »
Korean Air sells inflight business for $834mn
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) has signed a deal to sell its inflight catering and duty-free business to Seoul-based private… Read More »
Trans Air Congo adds first B737-500
Trans Air Congo – TAC (Q8, Pointe Noire) has taken delivery of its first B737-500 in the form of TN-AKH… Read More »
Samoa Airways to launch scheduled domestic flights
Samoa Airways (OL, Apia Faleolo) has announced it will launch its first domestic route, between Apia Faleolo and Maota Savai’i… Read More »
Norway’s Widerøe cuts capacity as gov’t phases out support
Having seen a NOK650 million kroner (USD72.4 million) drop in passenger revenues from March to July, Widerøe (WF, Bodø) has… Read More »
Bahrain’s Texel Air takes first 737-700(FC)
Texel Air (XLR, Bahrain Int’l) has taken delivery of its first B737-700(FC), a combi passenger/freighter it can configure into seven… Read More »
Costa Cruises to COVID-19 Test All Passengers, Receives Biosafety Trust Certification
As Costa Cruises prepares for the resumption of operations in September, it became the first cruise line to earn the… Read More »
Bahrain’s Gulf Air adds maiden A321neo
Gulf Air (GF, Bahrain Int’l) took delivery of its first A321-200NX on August 21, 2020, and is planning to debut… Read More »
SAA backs severance for 3,100+ staff; more buyer interest
South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has approved voluntary severance packages for more than 3,100 employees, local media reported,… Read More »
LIAT gets state money for overdue wages, courts investors
The government of Antigua and Barbuda transferred USD1 million to the administrator of dormant LIAT (LI, Antigua) to pay for… Read More »
Saudi Arabia’s flyadeal takes first A320neo
flyadeal (F3, Jeddah) took delivery of its first A320-200N, HZ-FAL (msn 9554), following a period of four months in storage… Read More »
Germany’s Luftwaffe takes A350, to retire A340s in 2022
Luftwaffe (GAF, Cologne/Bonn) has taken delivery of its first A350-900, 10-03 (msn 416), although its induction into service as a… Read More »
Forli, Italy to regain scheduled flights with Air Dolomiti
Air Dolomiti (EN, Verona) has announced it will launch a new route from Forli to Munich, marking the resumption of… Read More »