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German Government agrees on a rescue package for Lufthansa
The German government has agreed on the final details of a rescue package for Lufthansa, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday.
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Air France To Phase Out Its A380 Fleet with immediate effect
Air France (AF) has today announced it will be phasing out its Airbus A380 with immediate effect due to low demand caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Out of the nine units in the fleet, five are directly owned by AF or are on finance lease, with the other four being on operating lease. It is understood that the cost for the aircraf… read more
Lufthansa Group airlines to take off again with 160 aircraft
Starting in June, Lufthansa, Eurowings and SWISS will be offering monthly restart schedules to significantly more destinations in Germany and Europe than in the past few weeks. The repatriation schedules will thus end on 31 May.
A total of 80 aircraft will be reactivated with the "June timetable". This means that a total of 106 dest… read more
Dubai Expo 2020 postponed to October 2021
The postponement of Expo 2020 Dubai is set to be approved by the Bureau International des Expositions, with the change of dates having already surpassed the required two-thirds threshold.
LOT Polish Airlines stops all operations
As of today, 15th of Marsch 2020, the governement of Poland has decided to close all borders. This has effect also for the National Airline, LOT. First the airline said they will stop all international operations out of Warsaw (Poland) and Budapest (Hungary). However, later the airline said they will stop all flights, also the domestic routes. T… read more
Radisson announces global plan to reduce single-use plastics
Radisson Hotel Group announced to implement bulk amenity dispensers across all brands by the beginning of 2022, replacing small bottles of its bathroom products. This plan will extinguish 57 million miniature amenities from circulation, avoiding the use of almost 500 tons of plastic annually.
In addition, Radisson Hotel Gr… read more
Costa Smeralda passengers released from quarantine
Passengers on Costa Smeralda have been released from quarantine after two Chinese guests tested negative for the coronavirus. Italian health officials diagnosed a passenger on board the ship, docked in Civitavecchia, north of Rome, with common flu.
More than 6,000 passengers had been locked for 12 hours until the results had been re… read more
Sabre and Google partner to build the future of travel
Google Cloud announced an agreement with Sabre Corporation to collaborate in order to digitally transform the traveler’s experience, and create with joint power the future of travel. The agreement will have a duration of 10 years.
One of the first steps is that Sabre will migrate its IT infrastructure into… read more
Hahn Air partners with 40 new airlines in 2020
Hahn AIR has contracted 40 new partners all over the world to use their sales- and ticketing facilities.
17 of the new partners will be using the product HR-169 and hence have entered into an interline agreement with Hahn Air. The remaining 23 carriers are taking advantage of the products H1-Air or X1-Air for airlines that are looki… read more
JetBlue carbon neutral by July 202
JetBlue Airways said they will become the first U.S. airline to commit to offsetting its emissions from all of its domestic flights in order to be carbon neutral by July 2020.
JetBlue Airways follows the example of UK low cost carrier EasyJet, which announced in November 2019 that it would become carbon neutr… read more
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