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Budget carrier Cebu Pacific on Saturday released the schedule of its flight cancellations from August 6 to 20, amid the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. Flight cancellations have been made after the government allowed only essential travel…
Thai AirAsia (TAA) has suspended all flights this month and deferred paying its staff either wholly or partially until September. The airline, regarded as one of the most robust domestic carriers, has faced a financial crunch from consistently low passenger…
Bamboo Airways, Vietjet, and Pacific Airlines have suspended most of their regular routes amid a surging number of Covid-19 cases that have seen demand plunge. Bamboo Airways will cease all regular flights for two weeks from July 26 to August 7 amid the…
On Saturday, July 3rd, AirAsia Indonesia announced that it would be suspending its operations for at least a month due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in the country. The airline has called its suspension a form of support for the Indonesian government’s…
According to the airline, the flights were operated on Friday. “The sectors flown by fully vaccinated crew included Bengaluru-Kolkata, Kolkata-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Chennai, Chennai-Guwahati, Guwahati-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Pune, Pune-Jaipur, Jaipur-Pune and…
Tourism companies see a proposed plan to gradually resume international flights as a necessary first step for their sector to recover from the pandemic-inflicted slump. Nguyen Minh Man, head of marketing at the HCMC-based TST Tourist Co., said that a slow and…
Vietnam Airlines is awaiting approval from the U.S. government to launch regular direct flights to the country to serve repatriation needs of the Vietnamese community. A representative of the national flag carrier told VnExpress that a large number of…
Low-cost carrier AirAsia is ready to furlough more workers unless domestic coronavirus travel curbs end next month, even as the company speeds expansion of its non-airlines business to fill an earnings hole, top executives told Nikkei Asia. The airline…
Many countries have closed their international borders, and many impose lots of restrictions that makes travel almost impossible. Airlines currently do not need an extensive fleet of wide-body aircraft to carry passengers across oceans and continents. In…
Low-cost airline AirAsia had a tough 2020. But its CEO, Karen Chan, is taking a glass half full approach. She says the travel downturn and subsequent fallout for AirAsia was a blessing in disguise. It forced AirAsia to look outside its comfort zone and at a…
Philippine Airlines has suspended flights to and from London till the end of February 2021 as Britain battles a new coronavirus strain, said a report. The airline said it supports all measures that seek to curb any potential increase in Covid-19 cases during…
Thai Airways is opening up its Boeing and Airbus flight simulators to the public this October in its latest bid to boost business amid the drop in travel demand due to the coronavirus crisis. As part of the airline’s “Thai Flying Experience and Beyond”…
Vietnamese tourism companies are not enthused about the possibility of flight resumption to six Asian destinations because they don’t expect large numbers of tourists to board these flights. Nguyen Cong Hoan, deputy CEO of Hanoi Redtours, said that flights to…
Gokongwei-led Cebu Air Inc. took a turn for the worse on the first half of the year as losses mounted due to the coronavirus pandemic that kept most of its fleet grounded. A gradual recovery is seen from reopening routes. In a disclosure on Wednesday, the…
AirAsia Philippines said ticket sales were increasing as it gradually ramped up operations and offered flexible rebooking options amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The budget carrier, part of Malaysia’s AirAsia Group, said June ticket sales rose by 30…
Budget airline Cebu Pacific on Saturday said it would resume some domestic flights by June 2, but international flights would remain suspended from June 1 to 30. “We will continue to work with the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), as well as other national and…
