American Airlines, British Airways and Oneworld have launched an optional COVID-19 medical-based testing trial on selected flights from the United States (US) to London Heathrow (LHR), in a combined effort to scientifically demonstrate how COVID-19 testing can reopen international travel and remove the need for passengers to quarantine on arrival. [read more]
The Government has removed the United Arab Emirates from the current travel quarantine list paving the way for reopening air routes between the Arab nation and the UK. CEO of the Emirates Group Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum has stated that he welcomes the change and “Emirates is ready to [read more]
As a result of the ongoing pandemic, London Luton Airport (LTN) has experienced an 82% drop in passenger traffic having seen 297,000 passengers in October. The ongoing ban on non-essential travel is expected to create an even larger impact on the airport and the airline industry which has already seen [read more]
Key UK airports have begun to scale back their operations as the latest coronavirus lockdown begins to bite and they prepare for the winter of low air travel demand ahead. England is in a lockdown until 2nd December so non-essential travel is banned and Wales has also outlawed non-essential air [read more]
Manchester Airports Group CEO Charlie Cornish has released a damming statement claiming that the Government has “neglected UK aviation”. The statement is in response to the banning of holiday and leisure air travel from 5th November until at least the 2nd December from England and Wales. Mr Cornish said that [read more]
International holiday air travel is to be suspended in England from Thursday 5th November under new lockdown measures announced by the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson made the announcement that England would enter a month-long lockdown earlier this evening from Thursday which bans all but essential travel. The [read more]
The Canary Islands and Denmark are some of the destinations that have been removed from the Coronavirus Quarantine list for the UK. The news means that tourists visiting the popular Spanish islands will now no longer need to quarantine for 14-days on return to the UK with the same applying [read more]
Italy has been removed from the UK Governments Coronavirus (COVID-19( safe travel list meaning that from 4 am on Saturday 17th October anyone returning to the UK will have to quarantine for 14 days. Cases have been rising in Italy, one of the worst hit European countries in the initial [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said that it will only operate 65% of its normal program for Winter 2020/21 due to a slow down in air travel and tight travel restrictions caused by the resurging pandemic. In addition to the network cuts, it will also close its bases in [read more]
Norwegian Air Shuttle and its subsidiaries saw a 90% decline in traffic during September 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. Just 319,370 passengers travelled with the group last month which is still operating a vastly reduced network. The figures are as a result of the Coronavirus Pandemic and [read more]
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