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The Government of India has initiated a plan to bring back home thousands of Indians back home on special evacuation flights. In the first phase, these flights will be operated by Air India using their fleets of 787s, 777s and A320/A321 aircraft. Here are all the details!
The Government of India has finally figured they will operate flights from May 7, 2020, onwards to repatriate Indian citizens who might be stuck in various other countries. The size of this repatriation could be anywhere between 200K to 700K citizens by varied estimates.
Air India has started pushing out a new schedule for flights in the coming days. Take note, however, that these flights are not yet open for sale. However, this shows that Air India has perhaps started to plan for a post lockdown opening of flights.
Hilton Hotels has partnered with Mayo Clinic and RB (owners of brand Lysol) to put in place new hotel cleaning standards in North America, and subsequently the rest of the world, as they prepare for travel in a post CoVid19 era. Check out how your travels might change in the times ahead.
Airbus results announced today reflect the first real big impact on aerospace due to the CoronaVirus, as the airframe maker could not delivery 60 aircraft due to the pandemic in Q12020.
Vistara has paused the issuance of free tickets to its co-brand cardholders due to the CoronaVirus pandemic.
Emirates is getting together more resources to process the refunds of over half a million trips which were cancelled due to the CoronaVirus. Even then, refund processing is expected to last till August 2020.
Boeing, over the past 24 hours, has cancelled a deal to purchase 80% of Embraer’s commercial aviation business as the timelines to close the deal expired yesterday. Embraer states that it was ready to close the deal but it was wrongfully terminated.
Is Credit Card Dispute your way out of your credit shell with the airline? We try and explore how this could go both ways.
Emirates Commercial flights are planned to be resumed on July 1 for the moment. However, Emirates has put in place new service protocols which involve strictly no meals except on long-haul flights (repacked) and social distancing measures. No cabin bags allowed as well.
Aviointeriors, an Italian seat maker, has filed for a patent on a new radical design of seats (for economy class!) which promises to protect from CoVid-19, and perhaps even making conversation with a pesky neighbour on the plane.
