DUBAI: Dubai-based international airline Emirates has announced that it will deploy its iconic A380 aircraft to Guangzhou from August 8, 2020. The airline has also restarted its A380 operations to Amsterdam and Cairo this week, and introduced a second daily A380 service to London Heathrow, serving market demand and offering customers more travel options. Emirates has so far resumed A380 services to five cities and it will gradually expand the deployment of this popular aircraft in line with demand and operational approvals. Customers can currently fly the Emirates A380 daily to Amsterdam, four times a week to Cairo, twice daily…
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NEW JERSEY: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts will require guests to wear face coverings, President and CEO Geoff Ballotti said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. The new requirement comes on the heels of updated guidelines from the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA), and follows similar announcements from Marriott International, Hyatt Hotels, InterContinental Hotels Group and others. Effective August 10, 2020, face coverings will be required for guests and staff in indoor public spaces at across its 19 brands, including La Quinta, Days Inn, and Super 8. “We all must play a role in slowing the spread of COVID-19,” Ballott…
ISLAMABAD: British Airways has announced that it would restart flights to Pakistan after novel coronavirus cases gradually began declining in the South Asian country. In a statement issued by the British High Commission in the capital Islamabad, the airline said that resumed direct flights would take off three times a week between Heathrow Airport and Islamabad. The first flight will land in Islamabad on August 14. The airline will take extra precautionary measures for the safety of its crew and passengers. “Today’s announcement is another important step in reconnecting the trade ties and people-to-people ties between the UK and Pakistan,”…
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced plans to partially restore flight operations for the United Kingdom (UK). The PIA flights will be partially restored from August 14 and passengers would be able to travel via direct flights to London, Manchester, and Birmingham. According to details, the national flag carrier has hired planes from European companies along with foreign pilots to facilitate the passengers. The decision was taken after fares for UK flights from private airlines saw an unprecedented hike in the wake of the ban on national flag carrier’s flight operation. The fares are likely to return to normal…
BRUSSELS: Europe’s airline and airport associations have written to Prime Ministers, Transport, Health and Home Affairs Ministers across the European Union, Schengen and the UK, setting out deep concerns over their failure to implement coherent and science-based approaches to travel restrictions. The letter, sent jointly from Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), Airlines for Europe (A4E) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), is highly critical of the introduction of new restrictions relating to selected countries. Many of these restrictions, state the organizations, are inconsistent with the principles laid out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre…
HANOI: Low cost carrier Pacific Airlines and Sabre Corporation, the leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, today announced a strategic new agreement in a deal which further cements Sabre’s strength in the Vietnamese aviation market as well as its long-standing and valued relationship with Vietnam Airlines Group. Under the new deal, Pacific Airlines will adopt the Sabre Passenger Service System (PSS) as it moves forward with ambitious plans to play a key role, along with national carrier parent company Vietnam Airlines Group, in the recovery and future growth of APAC’s travel and tourism industry post…
HONG KONG: Dream Cruises has celebrated the re-start of its services with a ceremony in Taiwan. The brand will offer new cruises calling into the popular ports and islands of Peng Hu, Matsu Island and Kinmen as well as Hualien, where Taiwanese guests will again be able to enjoy short getaways. “It is a great honour for Genting Cruise Lines to continue its long and fruitful partnership with Taiwan which began over 20 years ago, as we begin on the road to recovery together due to the Covid-19 pandemic and which will bring hope to the global cruise industry as…
FRANCE: Airbus has seen revenue fall to €19 billion in the first half of financial 2020, down from €31 billion during the same period last year. The collapse was driven by the difficult market environment created by the Covid-19 outbreak, with the commercial aircraft unit delivering around 50 per cent fewer planes year-on-year. A total of 196 commercial aircraft were delivered in the last six months, down from 389 in the first half of last year. These comprised 11 A220s, 157 from the A320 family, five A330s and 23 A350s. Airbus’ reported adjusted EBIT of -€1,3 billion, down from a…
KARACHI: Emirates has announced it will resume flights to Nairobi (from 2 August), Baghdad and Basra (from 10 August), expanding its growing network, and offering customers around the world more convenient connections to Dubai, and via Dubai. This will take the airline’s passenger network to 67 destinations in August, including seven points in Africa and five points in the Middle East. Flights between Nairobi and Dubai and Basra and Dubai will operate three times a week while flights between Baghdad and Dubai will operate four times a week. The flights will be operated with the Emirates Boeing 777-300ER and can…
GENEVA: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released an updated global passenger forecast showing that the recovery in traffic has been slower than had been expected. In the base case scenario, the trade body expected global passenger traffic (measured in revenue passenger kilometres) will not return to pre-Covid-19 levels until 2024, a year later than previously projected. The recovery in short-haul travel is still expected to happen faster than for long haul travel. As a result, passenger numbers will recover faster than traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Recovery to pre-Covid-19 levels, however, will also slide by a year…