UK LAWMAKERS PUTS PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT TO CLARIFY INTERNATIONAL RESTART

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• Lawmakers are putting pressure on the government of United Kingdom for clarifying the restart of international travel
• The government of UK has not made a final decision for moving ahead on restarting the leisure travel

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DGCA HIKES SECURITY FEE ON AIR TICKETS

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• DGCA has increased the price of air tickets.
• Due to COVID-19 pandemic, few people are traveling by air which is causing losses to airline services.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is concerned about the low nu...

INDIA STARTS AIR TRANSPORT BUBBLE WITH BHUTAN

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• The air transport bubble between India and Bhutan has been operationalized.
• This move enables easier movement of people between two friendly countries.

The India-Bhutan air transport bubble has been operationalized for eas...

BRUSSELS AIRLINES WILL OFFER FLIGHTS TO AND FROM AFRICA IN WINTER

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• Brussels Airlines is going to extend its offer to and from the Africa during the next winter season.
• During the peak season, flights will increase by 40%.

Winter is coming. On Wednesday, 1 OCT 2020, Brussels Airlines annou...

EUROPEAN AIR TRAVEL DROPPED AS COVID-19 RE-SURGES

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• The total number of passenger flights in Europe will drop more than it was expected
• The air traffic watchdog of Europe said that the total trips in Europe will be reaching only six million

On Monday, the Eurocontrol said ...

COLIBRA TO PAY PASSENGERS FOR FLIGHT DELAYS IN BITCOINS

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• The cryptocurrency is slowly getting acceptance.
• Bulgarian company Colibra is going to passengers pay passengers in Bitcoin for flight delays.

It appears that slowly cryptocurrency is getting acceptance in some countries a...

UAE PLANES CAN TRAVEL EN-ROUTE SAUDI ARABIA IN ALL NATIONS

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• Saudi Arabia has consented to permit UAE trips to "all nations" to overfly the realm, state media detailed on Wednesday, days after permitting an Israeli airplane to pass via Abu Dhabi.

Saudi Arabia has acknowledged an Emir...

SWITZERLAND REOPENS AIR TRAVEL WITH RUSSIA

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• Switzerland has resumed the air travel services with Russia after closing it in late March
• Currently, Russia’s flagship air carrier Aeroflot is the only one that will be carrying flights between the two countries

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AIR INDIA EMPLOYEE ON DELHI-LUDHIANA FLIGHT TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

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• All the passengers on the board were sent to mandatory home quarantine

• On Tuesday, a passenger on IndiGo's Chennai-Coimbatore tested positive for the coronavirus

Nearly 40 passengers on Air India’s Delhi-Ludhiana flight were sent to...

AVIATION SERVICES FIRM JOHN MENZIES SACK OVER 17,500 EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE

Highlights

• Edinburgh based aviation firms axes half of its employees

• Decline in company’s customers and services by 60 percent

• Directors and senior staff to go through 20 percent pay cut

To deal with losses caused by coronavirus o...

International air travel increases only by 1% owing to aftermath of the Jet

Latest statistics on air travel claims that international air travel from and to India has grown only by 1 %. According to the report Jet Airways which was responsible for flying people in and out of the country since the past few years had experienced a 1% decline in international air travel in ...