Indianapolis Monthly

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Q: I SEE ALLEGIANT IS ADDING LOTS OF NONSTOP FLIGHTS FROM INDY. HOW SAFE ARE THE DISCOUNT AIRLINES? A: Cool your jets, my friend. When it comes to stuff like legroom, in-flight snacks, and overhead storage, airlines can (and will) skimp in every way

Los Angeles Times

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The average domestic airline ticket cost $346 in the first three months of the year, an approximately 3.7 percent decline from the same period last year and the latest drop from an industry that has been facing rising jet fuel prices. The airfares, r

Aero Magazine International

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) completes 75 years of existence in 2020, exactly in April. Founded in Havana, capital city of Cuba, the entity emerged from the Chicago Convention, the global treatise that sets forth the basis of ci

NPR

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The Department of Transportation received some 25,000 consumer complaints in March and April, up from about 1,500 a month. DOT will also allow airlines to stop serving some cities with little demand.

Finweek - English

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—The department of public enterprises announced that South Africa is in the final stage of negotiations with a potential investor for its grounded flag carrier, a move that would give the airline a boost just as it emerges from bankruptcy protection.

Los Angeles Times

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More people are expected to take to the skies during the Christmas holiday period, continuing the surge in travel demand that is projected to generate strong profits for U.S.-based airlines, according to industry forecasts. During the 21-day Christma

Beijing Review

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At dawn on March 17, Jiang Jia tenderly kissed her sleeping son goodbye and headed out the door quietly. She was flying out from southeast China on a special mission to Wuhan in Hubei Province in central China and wouldn’t see him again for 14 days a

TechLife News

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With a strong push from taxpayers, Southwest Airlines is the first major U.S. airline to report a profit since the pandemic started, and airlines executives say that the worst of the pandemic-caused crisis for their industry appears to be over. South

Msafiri Magazine

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Welcome to the October-November 2021 issue of msafiri. Amid some of the depressing news we hear about the pandemic, we have seen some green shoots of recovery, and the world is slowly but carefully opening up to the idea of travelling again. In this

Msafiri Magazine

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Welcome to the December 2021–January 2022 issue of msafiri. it has been another tough 12 months, but we’re looking to the future with optimism and confidence. 2022 should be a year in which we all work together to encourage travellers to #FlyAgain. O

GQ India

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AFTER TWO YEARS OF CONFINEMENT, we are at the precipice of an explosion in summer travel. Restrictive air bubbles have been popped, with 60 airlines from 40 countries firming up schedules to feed India, one of the world’s largest civil aviation marke

NPR

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An industry group says airlines around the world are burning through cash and can't afford to pay refunds to customers for canceled flights, despite regulations requiring it.

Business Today

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Nearly all airlines are flying at 25-30 per cent capacity due to restrictions and low demand Demand is uneven with flights to East India reporting higher load factors Despite reports that the Centre is targeting international flights by July, airline

India Today

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It’s been the toughest two years for any business. And aviation is a risky business at the best of times—a time when zero human mobility was mandated can only have been death-knell. But now the sector is looking up again. Domestic air traffic is show

Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition

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Welcome to the joint March and April 2020 issue of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific. Firstly, apologies for the joint nature of this issue. As you know, the travel industry has been badly affected by the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, and many airlin

Business Today

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The first week of September brought into the open the growing chasm in the aviation sector. The government, along with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and global industry body IATA, organised a mega event in New Delhi's Taj Palace Hotel to cele

Los Angeles Times

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The demand for air travel continues to surge, with U.S. carriers expected to fly a record 28.5 million passengers over the Thanksgiving holiday, a 3 percent increase from the previous year. Despite the continued growth in passengers, the nation's air

Plane & Pilot

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In a thrift shop just off Atlanta’s DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, a wooden case caught my eye. Amy and I spend a disproportionate amount of our time in secondhand stores. A lot of trips are busts, but there are times we strike gold. Sometimes, I can even

Plane & Pilot

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For as long as there have been airline flights or railroad passages or ships sailing the ocean blue, there have been deadheads. As crews move machines about the face of the planet, they frequently find themselves “out of place.” To the airline pilot,

Saturday Star

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THE airline industry is struggling to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with route cancellations and irksome flight delays becoming something of a norm. Much planning goes into a pandemic trip, from Covid-19 testing to booking travel insurance.

TechLife News

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United Airlines will reduce flights, freeze hiring and ask employees to volunteer for unpaid leave as the airline struggles with weak demand for travel because of the new virus outbreak. United said that starting in April it will reduce passenger-car

Business Traveller

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Of the many industries hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, aviation has taken a particularly big knock. At the height of lockdown in April, flights were down by 94 per cent across the world compared with April 2019. Thousands of airline jobs have been lost

Weekend Argus Saturday

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THE airline industry is struggling to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with route cancellations and irksome flight delays becoming something of a norm. Much planning goes into a pandemic trip, from Covid-19 testing to booking travel insurance.

Go Travel New Zealand

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When it comes to regional air travel, there's a "Big Little Airline" proving that sometimes smaller is better. Bev + Dan Power started Sunair Aviation over 30 years ago. It began with a dream and a focus of offering regional business and leisure trav

New Zealand Listener

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‘Dear Air New Zealand”, wrote Finance Minister Grant Robertson this month, followed by a few “suggestions”. And with that, the lurking fear that the world’s governments, having had a taste of fortress economics and central command economies, would ge

Pretoria News Weekend

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THE airline industry is struggling to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with route cancellations and irksome flight delays becoming something of a norm. Much planning goes into a pandemic trip, from Covid-19 testing to booking travel insurance.

Independent on Saturday

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THE airline industry is struggling to stay afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with route cancellations and irksome flight delays becoming something of a norm. Much planning goes into a pandemic trip, from Covid-19 testing to booking travel insurance.

Business Traveller

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Welcome to the September issue of Business Traveller. I hope you all had a chance to take a proper rest from business travel over the summer, and that your travels instead revolved around pleasure somewhere with family or friends. As experienced trav

Sunday Independent

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IT’S take-off for South Africa’s new passenger airline as flying conditions are great but demand is low. On Thursday, budget airline Lift made its debut with inaugural flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg, launching at a time when passenger num

Kiplinger

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The outlook for airline stocks continues to zip relentlessly higher ... even if they still face a few near-term bumps on the runway. Leisure travelers are taking to the skies again as vaccinations roll out nationwide and pandemic cases decline, which