After a string of safety issues arose earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration placed restrictions on United Airlines ability to add new aircraft and new routes. During the hiatus, the FAA conducted a review of the airline’s safety procedures…
Cathay Pacific will take most of this year to build back capacity to seventy percent of pre-Covid levels by the end of 2023 and return to pre-pandemic levels in 2024. It will do this through a “measured and responsible approach”…
UPDATE Jan 5 – IATA is “extremely disappointed” that individual countries have introduced Covid tests for passengers arriving from China. The airline’s lobby group Director General, Willie Walsh, says this is a “knee-jerk reinstatement of measures that have proven ineffective…
Korean Air’s revenues got a huge boost in Q3 from the removal of pre-arrival mandatory Covid testing in South Korea and the relaxation of other travel restrictions. Revenues grew by almost 65 percent to KRW 3.7 trillion, up from KRW…
Virgin Atlantic looks back on 2021 as a year that was even more challenging than the first year of Covid. “Persistent volatility in international travel, fueled by ever-changing restrictions and testing requirements, resulted in significant losses and a decline in passenger…
Thousands of Africans who had been unable to travel to Dubai and other cities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have heaved a sigh of relief as the travel ban imposed on twelve African nations would be lifted on…