Transport Secretary Grant Shapps yesterday announced in a statement on Twitter that Italy, Vatican City and the microstate of San Marino would be losing their ‘air bridge’ status from this Sunday October 18 at 4am, leaving just four restriction-free destinations for British holidaymakers: Germany, Gibraltar, Greece and Sweden. Even then, several of these […]
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Text size Los Angeles International Airport amid the pandemic. Mario Tama/Getty Images You may be more likely to catch Covid-19 from someone at home than sitting on a packed, 12-hour flight with strangers. That’s one takeaway from a new study on transmission of the virus on planes, sponsored by the […]
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Thursday said that he doesn’t expect the demand for business travel to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024. Kirby said in a holdings call that in his personal opinion, which he acknowledged is not the consensus generally, business travel will make a full comeback. “We […]
Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL -3.28% offered cautious optimism that demand for travel is starting to return but said its losses were mounting, as the coronavirus pandemic looks likely to continue weighing on travel for years. “The virus has had a much broader impact over the course of the year […]
Colorful lights flash, music booms and people go flying by overhead. The doors to Urban Air Adventure Park in Laurel are open, and owners Taiwo and Isaiah Bolarinwa are working hard to get the word out. After seeing his daughter’s face light up in awe when she visited her first […]
Clarissa Carson cradled her baby girl in her arms and felt her heart drop. The ICU nurse looked out her front window, barely making out trees across the street. Dense, choking smoke — the result of nearby wildfires — had settled in her hometown of Medford, Oregon, a city of […]
An air ambulance landed in the German capital on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The plane, chartered by the German NGO Cinema for Peace, landed at 8:47 am local time (0647 GMT) at Tegel […]
Simon Calder Wizz Air has apologised to passengers who were turned away from an Athens-bound flight for perceived flaws on the Greek “passenger locator form” (PLF). Twenty-eight passengers were offloaded from the airline’s flight W9 4467 from Luton to Athens on Thursday 6 August. Some were denied boarding by ground […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Global air travel is recovering more slowly than expected and it will take until 2024 to return to pre-pandemic levels, the trade association for the airline industry said Tuesday. The International Air Transport Association pushed back its prediction by one year due to the slow containment […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Global air travel is recovering more slowly than expected and will take until until 2024 to return to pre-pandemic levels, the trade association for the airline industry said Tuesday. The International Air Transport Association pushed back its prediction by one year due to the slow containment […]
Although COVID-19 restrictions are relaxing as vaccination rates increase, the Montrose Recreation District has not relaxed its vigilance in methods to increase safety. At the Montrose Community Recreation Center, the district recently installed large-scale, industrial ionizing fans. “They basically put out electrically charged ions that attack different pathogens, include viruses […]
Colorado’s vast public lands make our state beautiful, allow us the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, and perhaps most importantly, keep our air clean. And yet, in Colorado alone the Bureau of Land Management has leased 2.5 million acres of land to oil and gas companies through 2019, more than […]
Just a few months ago, news of a “digital health passport” (DHP) allowing only those who have received a vaccination to travel would have raised alarm bells around the world. The idea that an instrument as intrusive as a chip or barcode that tracks our most private health data would […]
FILE – In this Oct. 9, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks to protect against the coronavirus, walk down a street in Hong Kong. Singapore and Hong Kong have postponed a planned air travel bubble meant to boost tourism for both cities, amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong […]
TREXLERTOWN, Pa. – After 6 months and 8 feet, you’d never know the building was once a Bon-Ton. Now it’s a 64,000-square-foot Urban Air. It’s an indoor, interactive amusement park. Matthew and Nichole Pitz are the owners. They say their kids loved their local Urban Air so much, they wanted […]
Confidence about the course of the coronavirus pandemic has helped put passengers back on planes in recent months, and Thanksgiving week is shaping up to be one of the busiest periods for U.S. air travel since it came to a near-standstill in the spring. News that effective vaccines may be […]
It’s the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” to grab a blanket and get cozy on the couch for some good TV. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The holidays are here again and with everyone toning down gatherings and celebrations due to COVID-19, ABC is offering some family-friendly television to get into […]
U.S. Department of Transportation launches website to help air passengers navigate travel during pandemic WGAL News 8 coronavirus coverage Updated: 12:46 PM EST Nov 13, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript >> IF YOU HAVEN’T FLOWN SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. IF YOU HAVE A FLIGHT COMING UP, […]
© Provided by Hindustan Times Hong Kong and Singapore will start an air travel bubble that will replace quarantine with Covid-19 testing from Nov. 22, officials said in separate media briefings Wednesday. There will be several flights a week on Singapore Airlines Ltd. and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. from that […]
Air Canada shares surged more than 28 per cent Monday as news of a potential COVID-19 vaccine and government assistance for the industry eclipsed dismal third-quarter results brought about by global pandemic lockdowns. © Provided by The Canadian Press The Montreal-based airline said it lost $685 million, or $2.31 per […]
Top Gear battled severe COVID-19 restrictions to deliver a 29th season of the beloved motoring show which its ardent fans loved, producing record audience figures, but it also drove some viewers away. It’s mix of vehicle tests and high-octane stunts is constantly evolving, so where will they take it in […]
© Provided by The Print New Delhi: The Indian armed forces have revised the quarantine policy for members of each service, at a time when the ongoing tensions with China at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh have fuelled an additional deployment of troops in the region. The new […]