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A man in his 30’s has been arrested at London Luton Airport, located around 34 miles north of the British capital, on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 test... Read More
American Airlines has now released details of two new routes that we were first told about when the airline announced its new and at the time, surprising, partnership... Read More
In its latest route update, Qatar Airways has confirmed that it has now scheduled the resumption of yet another of the US routes that it suspended early last year (its... Read More
The new Free Spirit program is now live. And with it comes some change in the company's approach to airline loyalty. Read More
Hong Kong’s health minister, Sophia Chan Siu-chee confirmed on Friday that the Chinese territory was considering imposing a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all flight... Read More
It is unlikely that you'll snag a ride on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo or the McLaren Elva any time soon, but sitting down on board a new JetBlue A220 could offer one... Read More
Lufthansa Group (which include Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian, and Brussels Airlines) has today announced that while passengers are currently expected to wear masks that... Read More
Lufthansa will require all of its passengers to wear a medical-grade face mask starting February 1, bringing the carrier in line with new rules recently approved by... Read More
British low-cost airline easyJet is already planning for a post-COVID recovery with plans to hire hundreds of cabin crew on temporary seasonal contracts for what’s... Read More
President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday requiring anyone traveling to the United States from a foreign country to go into quarantine as part of his... Read More
The Dutch flag carrier KLM says it will be forced to axe 1,000 more jobs after the government of the Netherlands introduced even tougher new travel restrictions as... Read More
At 2 pm ET, President Joe Biden will sign a slew of executive orders as his administration sets to work on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, a top priority of the new... Read More
Although it is yet to be confirmed by the airline, it is being widely reported that KLM will temporarily halt all long-haul operations from tomorrow, 22 January 2021,... Read More
The Hong Kong government is said to be considering imposing a mandatory two-week quarantine on nearly all arriving aircrew in a drastic attempt to prevent the... Read More
The low-cost airline Norwegian has thanked the government in Oslo for proposing a second state-funded bailout following several weeks of intense negotiations. The offer,... Read More
A group of 18 pilots and flight attendants are several days into a two-week quarantine so that they can take scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine... Read More
A man has been sentenced to two months imprisonment after security officers at Heathrow Airport found a hand grenade in his carry-on luggage as he prepared to catch a... Read More
The pandemic may still be raging but Marriott's relentless expansion within the Asia Pacific region doesn't appear to have been slowed by the crisis enveloping the... Read More
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom has admitted that the country should have shut its borders in March 2020 in order to keep out the novel Coronavirus. The... Read More
Singapore Airlines is partnering with Collinson to trial an online portal that will allow its customers to arrange a pre-departure COVID test, receive their results and... Read More
Eurowings, a low-cost subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, says it actually plans to hire new flight attendants in 2021 as part of an expansion plan to cater for what it... Read More
The parent company of British Airways and Iberia has struck a deal with Spanish tourism company Globalia to buy the country’s second-largest airline, Air Europa for... Read More
Emirates and Etihad Airways said on Tuesday that they would both start trials of a secure e-passport mobile app that stores and shares COVID-19 vaccination and... Read More
A British Airways pilot who was taken ill with COVID-19 in March 2020 while in Houston, Texas spent a record 243 days in hospital but managed to beat off the virus and... Read More
With less than 48-hours before the 45th President of the United States leaves the White House for good, Donald Trump made a surprise decision to sign an order lifting... Read More
A small plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a Florida beach yesterday. Quick thinking by a flight instructor resulted in a tense landing on a mostly empty... Read More
Etihad Airways has warned staffers that yet more job losses will be announced imminently having already slashed its pre-pandemic workforce by the thousands. Since last... Read More
Australia may only partially reopen its borders this year, if it opens them at all, according to Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy during an interview with... Read More
Emirates has started a mass COVID-19 vaccination drive for its “substantial” United Arab Emirates-based workforce using both the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine and the... Read More
A man has been accused of managing to live and sleep for three months in a secure part of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) by using a stolen airline... Read More
During a TV interview with a MAGA protester, a United States Marine confronts the man, calling the rioters who broke into the US Capitol terrorists. It went how you... Read More
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