Airlines
Airlines Get Social
Following the ease of travel restrictions and reopening of international borders for vaccinated travellers, global airlines companies are striving to maintain services majorly by addressing staffing shortage issue amid massively increase in bookings. Against this backdrop, American Airlines has emerged as the top mentioned airline operator among the top 10 most mentioned airlines companies on the basis of social media conversations of Twitter influencers and Redditors in 2021, GlobalData reports. The data and analytics company’s Social Media Analytics (SMA) Platform, which...
The WestJet Group Takes Off With AZOVA
The WestJet Group has rolled out a significant expansion to its COVID-19 testing program through AZOVA -- a leading digital health technology platform. The new program is designed to give guests the confidence to book their holiday travel knowing all their COVID testing requirements are available through a convenient and easy-to-use site at https://www.azova.com/westjetswoop/. With AZOVA's app-based program, guests have access to a vast network of approved testing locations across Canada and the majority of WestJet transborder and international destinations. Additionally, AZOVA...
Air France Adds Caribbean Routes
Air France is expanding its flight schedule to leisure destinations this winter with the introduction of two North American routes to the Caribbean. Travellers can now fly from YUL-Montreal and JFK-New York to Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Air France will fly once a week between Pointe-à-Pitre (PTP), Guadeloupe, and Montreal (YUL), with the following schedule: AF624 Pointe-à-Pitre to Montreal departing 3:20PM arriving 7:50PM [Tue] AF625 Montreal to Pointe-à-Pitre departing 1:00PM arriving 6:50PM [Wed] The week of Dec. 6, 2021, Air France will add a second weekly flight...
Keep It Simple, Predictable, Practical
IATA is calling on governments to adopt simple, predictable and practical measures to safely and efficiently facilitate the ramping-up of international travel as borders re-open. The global airline industry association wants governments to focus on three key areas: Simplified health protocols Digital solutions to process health credentials COVID-19 measures proportionate to risk levels with a continuous review process The industry’s vision to address the complexity is outlined in the newly released policy paper: From Restart to Recovery: A Blueprint for Simplifying...
Avoiding A Tailspin
A new report from Deloitte Canada takes a deep dive into the Canada’s aviation industry and some of the challenges it is facing right now. Dejan Markovic, Director and National Aviation Leader for Deloitte Canada, points out at one point in his conversation with Canadian Travel Press that: “There is no money for mistakes amidst the turbulence of what we’ve seen. Airlines, airports, ANSP’s are working off of borrowed cash and we need everyone to collaborate more closely so that the steps they take towards recovery and how those steps influence the ecosystem is accretive to positive...
Cayman Islands Set To Welcome Back Canadians
The Cayman Islands are gearing up to welcome Canadians back this winter as both Air Canada and WestJet have announced that they’ll be re-introducing their service to the Caribbean destination. Air Canada Rouge begins non-stop service as of Dec. 4, 2021, while WestJet will return on Dec. 16. Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman began welcoming fully vaccinated international leisure guests without quarantine as of Nov. 20, 2021. In March 2020, the Cayman Islands government quickly closed its borders to international air and sea arrivals, resulting in the effective...
Air Transat Launches Virtual Interlining Service
Air Transat has launched connectair by Air Transat service. Using this virtual interlining platform, travellers can now combine Air Transat flights with flights from partner airlines such as British airline easyJet and Colombian airline Avianca to travel to even more destinations in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South America. Additional partners will gradually join the platform to enrich the range of destinations. Annick Guérard, president and Chief Executive Officer of Transat, said: “With connectair by Air Transat, we are becoming the first...
Air Canada Picks Farenexus Group For Agency Platform
Air Canada has picked Farenexus as the technology partner to build a platform to power its new AC Connex NDC booking platform for its agency partners. The AC Connex platform is a unique offering to the agency community that provides full Air Canada NDC content with profile integration to optimize the workflow for agencies. All Air Canada agency partners can use the AC Connex platform to ensure their agents can offer all the benefits that Air Canada’s NDC content will bring to agencies’ customers. Ravi Kumar Panwar, CEO of FareNexus Group, said: “We are very pleased to have...