Bengaluru: A day after announcing airport staff would be considered as frontline workers for Covid-19 vaccination, Karnataka government on Sunday withdrew the circular and said Central government’s classification of the workforce will continue to remain in effect for the inoculation drive. It should be noted that healthcare and frontline workers are being administered free Covid-19

French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain thanked India for supplying medicines to France at the time of pandemic. During the ongoing India-France bilateral exercise “Desert Knight 21”, Lenain said, “During COVID-19, you (India) shipped medicines needed in French hospitals. We are very grateful for that again… Very clear statements were released by your government and

New Delhi: Flyers travelling to the Netherlands are now required to undergo a Covid test within four hours of their flight departure time at the origin. This is in addition to the existing requirement of getting an RT-PCR test done within 72 hours of arrival time in Holland. A negative result from the new 4-hour

Kozhikode: The Calicut International Airport has submitted the safety assessment report to the DGCA to enable resumption of operation of wide-bodied aircraft from the airport. The DGCA had suspended operation of wide-bodied aircraft from the airport in August last year after the crash of the Air India Express flight which overshot the runway on August

JetBlue Airways has complained to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) that it is being locked out of securing slots in London for its planned transatlantic expansion. In a filing with the DOT on 19 January, the New-York-based low-cost carrier accuses the UK government of protecting airlines which currently have slots at the two major

ACI Europe now expects passenger traffic at the region’s airports to be down 56% against 2019 levels this year – a significant deepening from the 43% decline it forecast in October last year. Lamenting the negative near-term effects of various factors including the tightening of international borders, the airports industry body says air travel demand

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro Airlines ceased its operations on Saturday after the small country’s new government refused to continue financing the indebted national carrier. The airline which was formed 25 years ago has apologized to its passengers for the sudden termination of all flights and thanked them for “the years of trust, travel and

The Boeing 737 Max made its official return to U.S. skies Tuesday, more than 20 months after the aircraft was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration and about six weeks since it was recertified. American Airlines’ Flight 718, the first commercial 737 Max flight by a major U.S. airline since its recertification Nov. 18, departed from Miami shortly before 10:30

Alaska Airlines will soon ban emotional support animals from flights, becoming the first major U.S. airline to do so after the Department of Transportation revised its regulations earlier this month about what constitutes a service animal.  Beginning Jan. 11, Alaska will only allow service dogs, which it defined in a press release as dogs that are ”

DETROIT – The leader of Delta Air Lines is telling workers that he expects some recovery from the coronavirus travel downturn by the spring. CEO Ed Bastian wrote in a New Year’s Day memo to employees that he expects 2021 to start with travel deeply depressed like it was last year. But as COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available,