SYNLAB and IATA Partner to Facilitate Safe and Easy Travelling
Europe’s leading medical diagnostic services provider, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced a partnership to facilitate safe and easy travel. Today, the two partners signed an agreement to incorporate SYNLAB’s extensive lab network into IATA Travel Pass. This will enable airline passengers to access SYNLAB’s broad and secure COVID-19 testing services, benefiting from […]
IATA Adds Environmental Sustainability to its Training Curriculum
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched an environmental sustainability training program together with the University of Geneva (UNIGE). While sustainability has played an important role in the industry for many years, it is a key priority as the sector rebuilds from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent survey of more […]
ACI World launches updated airport digital transformation guidance
Airports Council International (ACI) World has today launched comprehensive guidance to help airport executives approach digital transformation as the industry enters a post-pandemic environment. The second edition of the Airport Digital Transformation Handbook – supported by Honeywell and Mott MacDonald – examines how new technologies and the digitalization of existing manual processes can lead to […]
New tool assists airports to plan capacity increases as recovery continues
Airports Council International (ACI) World has today released a new tool to assist airports in terminal planning to increase capacity as the global recovery from the pandemic continues. The new Static Capacity Tool – developed by ACI World Business Partner Redwater Consulting Group – will assist by helping airports to evaluate the level of resource […]
The sun will rise again
Graham Newton talks to Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce about the carrier’s ongoing determination to forge an industry-leading position. How badly has the pandemic affected the Qantas Group? The numbers are stark. We’ve lost A$16 billion in revenue since the pandemic started and the losses from this financial year and last will be around A$4.7 […]
July flights at Ontario International Airport will reach 90% of pre-pandemic level
Summer travel is looking up at Ontario International Airport (ONT) as the Southern California gateway approaches near pre-pandemic passenger volume and begins the new fiscal year with a responsible budget plan designed to attract more commercial flight activity. Based on current flight schedules, there will be 437 flight departures a week in July from ONT, […]
IATA: Government policies risk jeopardizing network recovery
Almost 1,800 routes across the Americas have been lost during the pandemic and connectivity in the region will continue to suffer unless governments put a roadmap in place toward ending travel restrictions, IATA has warned. Speaking at Routes Americas 2021 on June 23, IATA regional VP for the Americas Peter Cerda (pictured) said about 1,100 […]
Alaska Airlines to resume full schedule at Paine Field by spring 2022
With increasing confidence that air travel is on a steady climb to return to pre-pandemic levels in the coming year, Alaska Airlines is planning to resume our full schedule of 18 daily nonstop departures at Paine Field-Snohomish County Airport by spring 2022, possibly earlier. The airport in Everett, north of Seattle, remains very popular with […]
Delta sees normal summer for domestic travel
Delta Air Lines said that bookings for domestic leisure travel in June have recovered to 100% of pre-COVID-19-pandemic levels. Delta President Glen Hauenstein told the Wolfe Research Global Transportation & Industrials Conference on May 25 that the booking curve has mostly returned to its precrisis shape, with customers once again comfortable booking several months in […]
United Airlines Takes Big Step Toward Returning July Flying to Pre-Pandemic Levels
United Airlines is announcing today more options for customers to take long-awaited summer vacations by adding more than 400 daily flights to its July schedule and increasing service to reopened European destinations. This is United’s largest monthly schedule since before the pandemic – United plans to fly 80% of its U.S. schedule compared to July […]
