Cathay Pacific Collaborates with AXA to Provide Free COVID-19 Insurance to Passengers December 7, 2020 Cathay Pacific is collaborating with AXA General Insurance Hong Kong Ltd. to provide free COVID-19 coverage to all passengers. Customers...
Momentum Is Building for Pre-Flight COVID-19 Airport Testing December 4, 2020 Even as the race to approve and distribute COVID-19 vaccines is entering its final stretch, parts of the travel industry...
An Emerging Risk of COVID-19 Pandemic: Rusty Pilots Making Flying Errors December 1, 2020 By Harry Suhartono and Anurag Kotoky On Sept. 15, an Indonesian flight carrying 307 passengers and 11 crew to the northern city of Medan momentarily veered...
COVID Passports Could Speed Up Revival of International Travel November 24, 2020 By Charlotte Ryan and Tara Patel Global airline lobby IATA is working on a mobile app that will help travelers demonstrate their coronavirus-free status, joining a...
Trump Administration, Airlines Can’t Agree on Contact Tracing Plan August 24, 2020 By David Shepardson The Trump administration’s efforts to require airlines to collect contact tracing information from U.S.-bound international passengers has stalled, five people...
Please Place Your Masks in Upright Position. Airlines Stress Safety to Lure Passengers. May 20, 2020 By Tracy Rucinski U.S. carriers JetBlue Airways Corp. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. announced fresh safety measures on Wednesday aimed at restoring confidence...
Airlines Under Pressure to Halt Flights to China; Update on Cancellations January 31, 2020 By Tracy Rucinski and Laurence Frost Pilots and flight attendants are demanding airlines stop flights to China as health officials declare a global emergency over the...
Bipartisan Bill Would Require Secondary Cockpit Door on All Existing Airplanes February 11, 2019 By Tracy Rucinski U.S. lawmakers are pushing for stronger aviation security with a bipartisan bill that would require passenger airlines to install secondary...
Lion Air Plane’s Cockpit Voice Recorder Recovered in Java Sea January 14, 2019 By Tassia Sipahutar, Kyunghee Park and Eko Listiyorini Indonesia found the cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air plane that crashed in October, giving investigators a real chance...
Lion Air Ends Hunt for 2nd Black Box, but Indonesia Plans to Resume Search January 3, 2019 By Cindy Silviana and Fanny Potkin Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed...