Aviation

easyJet is introducing a new fare bundle, Standard Plus, which is designed to make it easier for customers to see at the first stage of booking, the options available to them.

Southwest Airlines Co. announced an additional route between Kahului (Maui), Hawaii and Long Beach, Calif., the carrier's fifth gateway in California to offer nonstop service to the Hawaiian Islands.

Beginning February 1, United customers traveling to Hawaii who have a valid negative COVID-19 test can show their results before boarding to save time and skip document screening lines upon arrival.

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on January 28 operated the very first commercial flight from the new Bahrain International Airport terminal which was GF2130 to Delhi on one of the newest Airbus A320neo aircraft at 1435 Bahrain time.

Emirates Skywards, the award-winning loyalty programme of Emirates and flydubai, has rolled out new measures to offer its members more support, flexibility, and choice – allowing members to retain elite tier status until 2022.

The airport association ACI World has presented Munich Airport with a certificate for its commitment to preventing the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A survey of 5000 consumers across Europe between 8^th and 20^th of January 2021 has shown that almost two-thirds (65%) were planning to or had already booked a flight in 2021.

The UAE, Burundi, and Rwanda have been added to the red list of countries from where travel to the UK is banned because of worries over the spread of new coronavirus variants.

Qatar Airways Privilege Club will extend its valued members’ tier status in recognition that travel plans continue to be impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Although international air and travel traffic are currently still restricted due to the global coronavirus pandemic, Munich Airport takes these difficult times as an opportunity and invests in E-mobility.

SAS and Apollo are expanding their partnership regarding charter flights in a contract, which covers three summer and three winter seasons through to 2024, with an option for an extension of a further two years to 2026.

Operational activity at Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) showed consistency and improvement over the course of the 2020 calendar year. According to official and unofficial statistics, ORL had one of its busiest years in the past five years.

Following the announcement of the state of Yucatán, the Mexican state of Guanajuato also announced a Covid-19 Testing facility at Guanajuato International Airport.

Holding back on rapid mass testing is now a public health emergency extending the war against COVID-19, say experts, and the transportation sector can potentially create safer back-to-work environments and negate the need for future lockdowns through public health adoption of regular use of easy-to-use rapid lateral flow tests in the workplace.