coronavirus

A Boeing developed technology designed to combat COVID-19 onboard aircraft and allow easy sanitizing of the cabin and cockpit has been licenced to US company Healthe Inc who will use it to manufacture an easy to use cleaning wand for aircraft. The technology was designed under Boeings “Confident Travel Initiative” [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has extended its exemption for Flight Change Fees for passengers who booked flights in October and November allowing them to alter their bookings free of charge. The move is designed to give passengers greater confidence in booking with the airline by allowing them to freely [read more]

Ryanair has announced that it is cutting its October capacity by a further 20% blaming damage caused to forward bookings caused by travel restrictions imposed by EU Governments, in particular the Irish Government. The Irish low-cost carrier that continuous changes in EU Government travel restrictions and policies as a result [read more]

The UK Government has placed Portugal back on the list of counties requiring a 14-day quarantine on arrival back to England. Portugal was recently removed from the list but a sharp increase in Coronavirus cases meant it once again breached the UK’s threshold of 20 cases per 100,000 people. The [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) had planned to operate around 54% of its normal network between October and December this year but it has revealed that a “levelling-off” in bookings could see that fall to just 40%. Like all airlines British Airways has been badly hit by the Coronavirus pandemic and is [read more]

The Welsh Government has added 3 more Greek islands to the list of countries that require 14-days of self-isolation on return. Santorini, Serifos and Tinos now join those already on the list which includes Zante. In a statement, Minister for Health and Social Services, Vaughan Gething, said: “Yesterday I reviewed [read more]

The UK Government has added Seven Greek islands to the list of places that require a 14-day quarantine on return to England, Wales & Scotland maintain their own safelists. The islands of Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos/Zante are all now off the safe list as the cases [read more]

England & Wales have different quarantine exemptions for the first time after the Welsh Government deviated from the UK Government by adding Portugal and several Greek islands to the destinations that need a 14 day quarantine. It had been expected that the UK government would remove Portugal from the safe [read more]