For decades the theoreticians proved that bumblebees could not fly and were extremely irritated that they continued to fly anyway – using different equations. Much the same thing is happening with fixed-wing battery-electric aircraft. They were supposed to be impossible, but over one hundred are up there with around 1000 on order. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Category - Business Travel News
Nonstop San José to Chicago flights return on American Airlines
Nonstop service to Chicago-O’Hare from Mineta San José Airport returns on American Airlines. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Aeroflot cancels all Bangkok flights due to danger in Afghanistan airspace
It is no longer possible to purchase a ticket from Moscow to Bangkok for September or October of this year on the Aeroflot website. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Power of community shines through IMEX America learning program
According to the Dalai Lama: “Without the human community, one single human being cannot survive.” The importance of community resonates throughout the learning program at IMEX America, November 9-11, with sessions covering the power of storytelling, shared values, and human nature. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
2021 tourism revenues less than half of pre-pandemic levels
The global travel and tourism revenues are projected to reach only $385 billion in 2021, less than half pre-COVID-19 levels. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
3 more COVID-19 cases confirmed in New Zealand
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said genome sequencing results confirmed that it is the Delta variant that is linked to genome sequencing of cases in Australia's New South Wales outbreak. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Travel and tourism deal-making activity down almost 7% in July
Deal activity remained at the same level in key markets such as the USA, the UK and China, while India and Australia witnessed an improvement in deal activity. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Leisure travel is a safe bet for Air France
Air France has announced the extension into winter of what are typically summer-only flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Seville, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tangier, Faro, Djerba, and Krakow. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Afghanistan’s ex-president settles in UAE with $169 million of stolen cash
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US Travel: Federal mask mandate extension makes sense
Extending the federal mask mandate for travel makes sense for the current health environment and has the travel industry’s full support. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Minister Bartlett: Strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols key to successful return of cruise
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says safeguarding the health and safety of the citizens of Jamaica, as well as visitors, remains the top priority as the island welcomed the successful return of cruise operations. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US travel mask mandate to be extended through mid-January 2022
US mask mandate requires face masks to be worn by all travelers on airplanes, ships, trains, subways, buses, taxis and ride-shares and at transportation hubs such as airports, bus or ferry terminals, train and subway stations, and seaports. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Travel plans: Where Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X clash and where they align?
Travel study reveals clashes and alignments amongst Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Taliban halts all flights from Kabul International Airport
Taliban units have come in direct proximity to the airport and fired several warning shots to disperse the people that have flocked there. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
New Zealand goes on nationwide lockdown over one COVID-19 case
New Zealand countrywide shutdown is due to last three days, while in Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula the lockdown will last a week. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Alaska Airlines brings in 12 new Boeing 737-9 jets
Options exercised for deliveries in 2023 and 2024 further enhance Alaska Airlines' financial and sustainability outlook. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Cote d’Ivoire confirms first Ebola case in 25 years
It is of immense concern that this outbreak has been declared in Abidjan, a metropolis of more than 4 million people. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
South African Airways announces new Interim Executive
Simon Newton-Smith has previously held key leadership positions with Virgin Atlantic Airways and with Qatar Airways. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Russia resumes flights to Czech Republic, Dominican Republic and South Korea
Following discussions and considering the epidemiological situation in certain countries, the decision was made to lift restrictions on international regular and non-regular (charter) flights from Russian airports to the Dominican Republic, South Korea and the Czech Republic starting from August 27, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
North American inbound tourism spend declined by 74.1% in 2020
North America’s forecast recovery follows the general global travel consensus that domestic tourism will recover first by 2022, but international arrivals will not recover until 2024. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Seven killed in Kabul airport chaos as all commercial flights cancelled
Some of the people killed had clung to a US military transport plane as it took off, but fell to their deaths shortly after takeoff. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Gulf Air resumes flights from Bahrain to Moscow Domodedovo Airport
The national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain restarts scheduled passenger flights to Russian Federation. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Powerful earthquake rocks Alaska Peninsula
The peninsula is a seismic hotspot, and sits over the meeting point of the North Pacific and North American tectonic plates. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Russian plane crashes into mountain in Turkey killing everyone on board
Several firefighting aircraft have been sent to Turkey by Russia to assist the nation in its struggle with wildfires, which have plagued it in recent week. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Deaths, injuries, damage reported as major earthquake strikes Haiti
The US Tsunami Warning Centers issued a tsunami threat, but the threat was lifted within an hour. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Brand USA Keeps India on its Virtual Radar
The Brand USA global marketplace is unique in many ways, not the least of which was conveyed in a message loud and clear to India travel and tourism stakeholders that the United States is serious about getting the India market back, once travel is back in place, post COVID. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Martinique goes on lockdown, tells tourists to leave
The Prefecture of Martinique has recommended that vulnerable and unvaccinated tourists not continue their stay. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Air Canada Ready to Implement New Vaccination Policy
Government of Canada's announcement that federally regulated employees in the transport sector must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 31, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Seychelles Minister for Tourism Calls on DMCs
Continuing his mission to familiarize himself with tourism industry partners and their products, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism and Principal Secretary for Tourism, Ambassador Sylvestre Radegonde, met with several destination management companies on Thursday, August 12, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Jamaica Tourism Minister Meets with New Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica
Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, presents newly-appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Emina Tudakovic, (see left in the photo) with a special token of appreciation. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News