Travelport Launches Global Accelerator to Tackle Travel Retailing Challenges
Travelport is aiming to solve some of the biggest challenges in travel retailing. The new global accelerator program in partnership… Read More »
The Latest Expiration Dates for Unused Airline Tickets
United Airlines is giving customers added flexibility by extending the eligibility of unused tickets purchased amid the COVID-19 pandemic through… Read More »
Save Up To 50 Percent Off Fares With Amtrak’s Fall Sale
Travelers can save up to 50 percent on train fares with Amtrak’s National Fall Flash Sale, going on now through… Read More »
Holiday Inn Brands Expand Into Europe With New Openings
The Holiday Inn Brand Family, part of IHG Hotels & Resorts’ Essentials brands, has celebrated recent openings in cities and… Read More »
Atlantis Paradise Island Offers New Fall Sale
The Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas is now offering a new fall sale giving guests two nights free for… Read More »
Hotel Brands Must Uphold Promises To Clean Rooms on Request
In the 1997 romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, an early-on indicator of Jack Nicholson’s character’s eccentricity comes into… Read More »
Hotel minimum wage hiked in West Hollywood, Calif.
Hotel workers in West Hollywood, Calif., will earn a minimum wage of $17.63 per hour starting in January via action… Read More »
Resorts World Las Vegas focus of new Hotels.com ad
A new ad campaign for Hotels.com stars Captain Obvious in a nearly two-minute video taking viewers on a tour around… Read More »
Future tourism will be smart and sustainable
Smart tourism, where the experience is enhanced with digital capability, is the future of luxury travel, research finds. Travelers are… Read More »
Hotels, amusement parks part of Film City plans in India
The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority announced that work on the planned Film City project at Sector 21 in Noida,… Read More »
COVID-19 spurs downturn in business travel
A slowdown in business travel amid surging COVID-19 infections could create challenges for hotels, their restaurants and other eateries. Sixty-seven… Read More »
Miami airport hotel bidders list winnowed to 3 locals
The process of selecting a developer for an upscale hotel at Miami International Airport has been narrowed to three contenders,… Read More »
All-you-can-eat may not be all done as travel rebounds
The popular hotel breakfast buffet has given way to pre-packaged meals, room service and other adaptations in the new contact-shy… Read More »
Prime Minister Says Bahamas Cruise Port in Final Approval Stages
An environmental impact assessment (EIA) is underway for Disney Cruise Line’s Lighthouse Point project, with the project in “final approval… Read More »
Air Sénégal makes last-minute change to new US route
In a last-minute schedule change, Air Sénégal (HC, Dakar Blaise Diagne Int’l) has announced it will be flying to Baltimore… Read More »
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana secures $50mn Eurobank loan
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astana (KC, Nur-Sultan Nazarbayev) has received a multi-currency loan equivalent to USD50 million from the European… Read More »
Atlas Air to open Seoul, Korea MRO base in 2025
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, the parent of US cargo specialist Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK), and South Korean heavy… Read More »
Broker JetOneX secures additional B747 freighters
US-based cargo broker JetOneX has confirmed it has secured another B747-400(FSCD), one of a pair put in storage by China… Read More »
Guadeloupe’s Air Antilles resumes commercial flight ops
Air Antilles (3S, Pointe à Pitre) has resumed commercial flight operations after a follow-up audit by the French civil aviation… Read More »
Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines adds first B737 MAX 9
SCAT Airlines (DV, Shimkent) took delivery of its first B737-9 on August 27, 2021. UP-B3726 (msn 60389) was ferried from… Read More »
Taliban in talks to reopen Kabul airport
Turkey and Qatar are involved in talks over the provision of necessary services for the resumption of commercial flights at… Read More »
US’s Eastern Airlines to enter cargo market with P2F B777s
Eastern Airlines (2D, Miami Int’l) says it has secured B777 feedstock in preparation for its entry into the cargo market… Read More »
Armenia’s new JV with Air Arabia named Fly Arna
The Armenian National Interests Fund (ANIF) and Air Arabia Group have chosen FlyArna (Yerevan) as the name of their nascent… Read More »
CDC warns unvaccinated against Labor Day travel
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged unvaccinated people in the US to avoid traveling during the upcoming Labor Day weekend as… Read More »
Napa Valley’s new Four Seasons Resort opens in November
Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley in Calistoga, Calif., will be the region’s first and only resort within a working winery… Read More »
US airlines operations affected due to Hurricane Ida
US airlines, including Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, are adjusting operations and issuing travel waivers to passengers whose flights… Read More »