Digital health certificates may be the key to restart air travel worldwide. Already, Singapore has become the first country to accept the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel pass, the umbrella group of airlines yesterday (April 6) announced. Starting next month, May 1, 2021,...
NEW YORK (AFP) - US carrier Southwest Airlines agreed to buy 100 additional Boeing 737 MAX planes, the companies announced Monday, in a vote of confidence for the aircraft after a 20-month grounding. The order, which includes options on another 155 new MAX planes, is the biggest for the model since...
While virtual meetings could take the place of business travel and the sector may not recover from the pandemic until 2024, airlines will survive, according to Moody's. This was the gist of the latter's newest Sector-In-Depth report: “Airlines – Global: Business travel faces higher substitution...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (March 17) announced the successful trial of its Travel Pass app for managing passengers' health credentials on an actual flight. The first first traveler using the IATA travel pass flew via Singapore Airlines' and arrived at London’s...
Philippine Airlines (PAL), the country’s flag carrier and Asia’s oldest airline, turns 80 this month amid a continuing pandemic-induced financial difficulty that fell upon the aviation industry globally. PAL had seen the worst and the best of times, but this pandemic is one that could kill a...
The global airline industry will continue to be in the red throughout 2021, according to a new analysis which the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released last night ( February 24, 2021). It was a reversal of the association's November 2020 analysis indicating that airlines would...
The domestic airline industry easily lost P60 billion in 2020, but that is not enough to break any of the domestic airline firms although the government is strongly urged to increase their domestic flights and adopt a uniformed national health and safety protocols to reopen aviation safely,...
Art by Ariana Maralit It may take a year before we can travel internationally for leisure again, but a lot of domestic airlines, like Philippine Airlines, are resuming operations already following new developments as Metro Manila remains in General Community Quarantine (GCQ). PAL plans to expand...
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has extended its ongoing seat sale until November 29, 2020 to give travelers the chance to avail of special rates. The flag carrier initially offered the promo from November 16 to 22, 2020, with P388 one-way for domestic flights and USD99 roundtrip for international...
Airlines cannot cut costs enough to stave off bankruptcies and keep jobs in 2021, according to the newest analysis of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). As a result, airlines would be forced to cut their labor force by 40 per cent. Unless governments act fast, some 1.3 million...
With the resumption of international leisure travel and with travel agency operations again allowed to resume operations, the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) has renewed calls for airlines to fully refund P315.55 million in cancelled flights since March when the government-imposed...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said that local airlines have yet to submit the final loan plan to activate their P700 million financial support earmarked under the government’s economic stimulus programs. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the amount of...
