Category: Aviation

For air travelers, the new year picked up where the old one left off – with lots of frustration. By late Saturday afternoon on the East Coast, more than 2,600 U.S. flights and nearly 4,600 worldwide had been canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware. That is the highest single-day U.S. toll yet since just before […]

Liquidators of the collapsed Thomas Cook Group are said to be trying to sell the failed firm’s stake in The Airline Group, which holds a 42% interest in National Air Traffic Services (Nats). Sky News has reported that professional services firm AlixPartners launched a process shortly before Christmas to sell Thomas Cook’s 1.17% shareholding in […]

Germany is to ease restrictions on visitors from the UK from January 4. A statement on the German embassy’s website said the UK would be classified as a high-risk area from midnight on Tuesday, rather than an area of variants of concern. The move would lift a ban on carriage and entry, with those who […]

More work-from-home, no standing in bars and vaccine-only health passes France will order companies to impose at least three work-from-home days a week for employees whenever possible to stem a fifth wave of COVID infections, Prime Minister Jean Castex said Monday. The new measure, which will be in place for at least three weeks, is […]

The Turkish touristic hot spot of Cappadocia, which earned a place on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List with its historical, cultural and natural marvels, is gearing up for New Year’s Eve as it prepares for the arrival of high numbers of foreign and domestic tourists to ring in 2022. The region welcomed in 2021 […]

Thousands of flights have been canceled around the globe, giving travel headaches to millions as the Christmas season has been plagued with concerns over the omicron variant of COVID-19. Some 7,500 flights have been grounded and tens of thousands more delayed from Friday through Sunday – one of the busiest travel periods of the year […]

Over 4,500 flights were canceled by commercial airlines around the world over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the omicron variant created greater uncertainty and misery for holiday travelers. Airline carriers globally scrapped at least 2,401 flights on Friday, which fell on Christmas Eve and is typically a heavy […]

German airline Lufthansa plans to cancel nearly 30,000 flights from its winter schedule including the Christmas period due to the spread of the omicron variant and related travel restrictions, CEO Carsten Spohr told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. “From mid-January to February, we see a sharp downturn in bookings,” he told the newspaper on Thursday, […]