India’s SpiceJet to add up to 40 new passenger aircraft
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) wants to add another 30 to 40 passenger aircraft, including 10 to 15 more widebodies, on… Read More »
Viet Nam to allow domestic flights to resume
After months of lockdown, Vietnamese airlines will resume domestic services from a number of cities on October 10 in line… Read More »
Richard Branson’s Virgin Hotels New Orleans Opens in the Big Easy
Virgin Hotels New Orleans, the latest addition to Sir Richard Branson’s expanding brand of lifestyle hotels, celebrated its official grand… Read More »
Choice Privileges Launches New Leisure Benefit For Military Members
Choice Privileges, the award-winning loyalty program from Choice Hotels International, Inc., is launching a new rate for military personnel, veterans,… Read More »
Delta, TSA PreCheck Expand Partnership to Atlanta Airport
Delta Air Lines announced its digital identity experience partnership with TSA PreCheck has expanded to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Originally… Read More »
FAA Reports a Surge in Unruly Passenger Incidents
The busy summer travel period may have passed but incidents involving unruly passengers are on the rise, according to the… Read More »
United Airlines Planning Largest Domestic Schedule of COVID-19 Era
United Airlines has revealed plans to fly its largest domestic schedule since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic more than… Read More »
Cancun Airport Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Passenger Numbers in September
Mexico’s tourism industry continues to bounce back from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic by announcing one of the country’s… Read More »
India Reopening To International Tourists Starting This Month
India’s government today announced that its Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) would again begin granting tourist visas to foreign visitors… Read More »
St. Kitts & Nevis Reduces Travel Requirements for Vaccinated Foreign Visitors
St. Kitts and Nevis has just reduced its ‘Vacation in Place’ quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated foreign arrivals from four… Read More »
Puerto Rico Pacts for New Year’s TV Splash
Global TV viewers will can ring in New Year’s Eve 2020 live from Puerto Rico as the territory’s government and… Read More »
UK’s Jet2 orders 15 incremental A321neo
Jet2 plc, the parent holding of Jet2 (LS, Leeds/Bradford), has ordered fifteen incremental A321-200Ns, increasing its total order for the… Read More »
Norwegian reopens bases in Norway, to increase fleet
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has declared that Norway is “opening up” with the government’s recent removal of pandemic control measures… Read More »
Qantas resumes intercontinental flights in mid 4Q21
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is bringing forward the restart of its international flights to November 14, 2021, following the… Read More »
Korean Air-Asiana merger may harm competition
Korea’s fair trade chief, Joh Sung-wook, has cast doubt on the planned merger between Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and… Read More »
Agents, Executives Weigh In on New Marriott, Wyndham All-Inclusive Brands
Generally speaking, travel advisors and resort executives responded positively to industry giants Marriott International and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts entering… Read More »
United Airlines Teams With PayPal on Touch-Free Inflight Purchases
United Airlines and PayPal announced a new way to make touch-free inflight purchases. Starting in November, United customers on select… Read More »
Southwest Offering Flash Sale on Hawaii 2022 Airfares
Southwest Airlines is offering a discount of 40 percent off on airfare to Hawaii in 2022 – with one small… Read More »
Spirit Launches First Flights From Miami
Spirit Airlines this morning launched its first flights from Miami International Airport, the start of an ambitious plan to shake… Read More »
Meet Neos Air, the Global Italian Airline
Neos Air, the ‘new’ Italian airline taking the place of now-defunct Alitalia, is off and running! Boasting the youngest fleet… Read More »
Australia to Block International Visitors Until at Least 2022
Australia, which has been one of the most restrictive countries in the world when it comes to battling the COVID-19… Read More »
Nevis Tourism Launches Revamped Website with Mango Sweepstakes
The Nevis Tourism Authority (NTA) unveiled a revamped website featuring a modernized design and easy navigation, said NTA officials. The… Read More »
The best places to celebrate Oktoberfest in the U.S.
For the second year in a row, there was no Oktoberfest in Munich. While this fact could drive one to… Read More »
WTTC Research Finds Slower-Than-Expected Travel and Tourism Recovery
A lack of international coordination, severe travel restrictions and slower vaccination rates in some parts of the world are hampering… Read More »
AirAsia eyes all-A321neo fleet with order conversion
AirAsia Group has converted its thirteen remaining A320-200N orders into A321-200Ns as it looks to exclusively operate the latter type… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways volte-faces on B777 plans
Contrary to earlier indications that it would abandon the type, Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) is now contemplating reactivating some… Read More »