LAHORE: To honour the brave services of front-line police personnel safeguarding Lahore by putting their own well-being at risk during the Covid-19 outbreak, Hashoo Group has launched an initiative to benefit them by providing Sehr and Iftar meals at their checkpoints during the Holy Month of Ramadan. This was agreed in a meeting held between the Superintendent of Police, Civil Lines Division Mr. Dost Muhammad and the Hotel Manager Pearl-Continental Hotel Lahore Mr. Hussain Abbas on Wednesday, May 6th , 2020. Under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, Hashoo Group is going to provide daily Sehr and Iftar meals to…
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LONDON: Heathrow Airport is trialling large-scale temperature checks at departure gates for passengers heading to countries where this is a requirement. However, boss John Holland-Kaye told a meeting of MPs that airports are waiting for the Government to say what common standards airports should adopt to allow airlines to resume more frequent services. He told the Transport Select Committee that if the only solution was to put in place social distancing measures until a vaccine is found in ’12 to 18 months’, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. “We cannot afford to wait that long to get flying…
ISLAMABAD: These may be uncertain times for the travel industry but that hasn’t deterred Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from making Amadeus its mainstay long-term partner in travel distribution. Given the unprecedented challenge that the travel industry is facing, never before has distribution strategy and reach been more important for an airline. That’s why Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has reached a landmark agreement in distribution with Amadeus, giving PIA full access to Amadeus’ global travel seller network. Through this new agreement, Amadeus-connected agencies will now be able to book PIA’s full suite of domestic and international inventory through the Amadeus Travel…
LONDON: A stern warning that the future of Gatwick Airport could be under threat has gone out following a new round of job cuts in the airline industry. Airline Virgin Atlantic announced on May 5, that it was cutting more than 3,000 jobs and was pulling out of Gatwick because of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. British Airways has already announced 12,000 job cuts and now the union Unite has said the latest moves ‘threaten the future of Gatwick Airport.’ A Unite spokesman said: “The loss of 3,150 jobs across the Virgin airline and holiday businesses is another devastating…
WASHINGTON: US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has cast doubt on the US lifting international travel restrictions affecting the UK, the rest of Europe and Asia later this year. Mnuchin said it was ‘too hard to tell’ if international travel would resume this year, adding: “I hope down the road it is our priority is opening up the domestic economy.” Americans should focus on domestic travel as the country starts returning to normal, he said. A US State Department advisory is still in effect asking all Americans to avoid all international travel. “For business people that need to travel, there will…
DUBAI: The postponement of Expo 2020 Dubai is set to be approved by the Bureau International des Expositions, with the change of dates having already surpassed the required two-thirds threshold. [huge_it_slider id=”541″] Following a request from authorities in the United Arab Emirates to postpone the event in April, the international body put the matter to a vote. The result has been expected toward the end of this month. However, it appears support for the move is widespread. Expo 2020 Dubai now appears set to take place from October 1st, 2021, running for six months to March 31st, 2022. Organisers at…
BEIJING: In what appears to be the clearest sign yet of the coronavirus outbreak having abated in China, where it first emerged late last year, millions of Chinese are travelling within the country for the May Day holidays. Over 50 million trips were made in the first two days of the five-day holiday, state media reports said, adding that an estimated 90 million trips are expected to be completed by the end of holidays on Tuesday.Of the 50 million trips, nearly 23 million domestic tourist trips were made by Friday, the first day of the holiday, with the domestic tourism…
DUBAI: The Middle East’s biggest airlines, Emirates & Etihad have seen a drastic decline in their flight operations due to the coronavirus. This has exponentially decreased their profits and therefore, their top executives have estimated that the situation would not normalize until 2023. Emirates & Etihad are one of the emerging & top Airlines in the world. Will they be able to sustain during the pandemic? Top executives of Emirates and Etihad, two of the Middle East’s biggest airlines, have said passenger demand may not return to pre-coronavirus crisis levels until 2023. About 85 percent of the world’s airlines could…
KARACHI: To honor the brave services of front-line police personnel safeguarding Karachi by putting their own well-being at risk during the Covid-19 outbreak, Hashoo Group has launched an initiative to benefit them by providing Sehr and Iftar meals at their checkpoints during the Holy Month of Ramadan. This was agreed in a meeting held between the DIG South Mr. Sharjeel Kharal and the GM Pearl-Continental Hotel Karachi Mr. Tariq Deen on Thursday, April 30th, 2020. Under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, Hashoo Group is going to provide daily Sehr and Iftar meals to on-duty law-enforcement agency (LEA) personnel deployed…
Scandinavian Airlines has said it will cut as many as 5,000 jobs as it seeks to restructure for a post-Covid 19 world. The outbreak has removed most of the demand for air travel and thereby the commercial basis for many airlines.Currently, SAS is operating a limited domestic network in Norway and Sweden. Given the current restrictions on travel, SAS said it expects limited activity during the important summer season. “Covid-19 has forced SAS to face a new and unprecedented reality that will reverberate not only in the coming months, but also during the coming years. “Our ambition is to continue…