International travelers will have the option of undergo a test for the Coronavirus and thus cut the quarantine mandatory for 14 to five days upon arrival on British soil. The measure will be implemented on December 15, in time for the Christmas holidays. Airlines have embraced the ad as “the light at the end of […]
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Former IAG CEO Willie Walsh returns to chair IATA
Former IAG CEO Willie Walsh has been nominated to succeed the Director General of the International Air Transport Agency (IATA), Alexandre de Juniac. According to the agency, the French executive had already announced that he would leave office at the end of March. From Juniac He was President of Air France-KLM and has led IATA […]
Some yes, some no, others double. This is how the first day of mandatory PCR for travelers is being controlled
Fabrizio has landed at the Madrid-Barajas airport on Alitalia flight 058 from Rome. Upon arrival they asked for his negative PCR test (mandatory from today in Spain) but it had expired. It had been done 10 days ago, but the law here requires it to be done in a maximum of 72 hours. Fabrizio and […]
El Prat airport, in its lowest hours due to the coronavirus crisis
The airport of Barcelona it has run out of flights to the United States for the first time in 40 years. The airline Level, belonging to the group IAG, was the last to suspend its route to New York. At the beginning of last March, the three main US airlines canceled all connections to or […]
The airline sector warns: 80% of ERTE will be exhausted in a month and there are five million jobs threatened
The airline industry today asked governments for “continued financial support” To avoid the looming “job catastrophe” in the aviation industry: 4.8 million jobs are threatened by the fall in travel demand derived from the pandemic and 80% of salary replacement schemes (ERTEs) will be exhausted before the end of the year . The International Air […]
Girona is postulated as a destination to attract European night trains
Increased commitment to preserving the environment, added to the liberation of passenger transport by train in Europe -Next December-, has generated the recovery of an old and romantic way of traveling alternative to the plane: the night train, a growing market in the rest of the continent and to which Girona it intends to join […]
The Government approves the rescue of 475 million for Air Europa
 The Government has given the green light to the rescue of the airline Air Europa for a total of 475 million euros, as announced by the Minister Spokesman, Maria Jesus Montero, in the round after the Council of Ministers. The rescue will be carried out through the Government rescue fund for strategic companies managed […]
The airline industry affirms that there is twice the probability of hitting the primitive than of getting infected in an airplane
The US Department of Defense carried out a study to evaluate the possibility of contagion of Covid inside an airplane and concluded that a passenger would have to fly 54 hours with a sick person to become infected. Manufacturers Airbus and Boeing also assessed the risk. They filled a device with mannequins, one of […]
Ryanair reduces its winter offer, will close some bases and warns: “There will be layoffs”
As the second wave of the pandemic advances in Europe, airlines continue to reduce their flight offer looking forward to the next few months. The low cost Ryanair, the one that moves the most traffic in Spain, has already cut its autumn schedule and has revised the winter schedule (November-March), which will go from […]