Airlines
Star Alliance: Reason To Travel
Star Alliance and its member airlines have been working on a series of measures to ensure health & hygiene safety of customers when they fly across the alliance, and to provide health & hygiene-related information at their fingertips, all to help provide peace of mind when they plan their travel. Star Alliance’s 26 member airlines have agreed to a common set of health and hygiene safety measures intended to provide customers the comfort of knowing that whenever they are onboard any Star Alliance flight, they can expect consistent care on access to hygiene amenities,...
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Air Canada Partners With Cleveland Clinic Canada
Air Canada has announced that Cleveland Clinic will provide medical advisory services as the airline further develops biosafety measures across its operations. The airline will have access to the local expertise of Cleveland Clinic Canada as well as clinical expertise from Cleveland Clinic's worldwide enterprise system. Samuel Elfassy, vice president, safety at Air Canada, said that: “As airline travel adapts to a new normal, we are taking another leadership role via our partnership with renowned Cleveland Clinic which enables Air Canada to leverage the strategic insight, advice,...
Just Wear A Mask
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is calling on all travellers to wear protective face masks to show they ‘wear to care’ in the new normal of travelling. As countries transition from lockdowns to reopening their borders, the wearing of face masks helps signal the return of safer travels, while also providing personal protection for users as well as those around them. The advice from WTTC in favour of mandatory mask wearing comes from evidence that countries which are recovering faster and avoid second COVID-19 spikes are those where the use of face masks have been...
Ukraine International Airlines Is Back
Ukraine International Airlines(PS/566), represented in Canada by Airlinepros, is resuming its direct Toronto to Kyiv(KBP) flights, which have now been loaded in select GDS systems until the end of October 2020, with a simplified pricing structure. Operating from Terminal 3 in YYZ and partnering with Interline carriers WS & AC, throughfares from across Canada can be quoted, booked and ticketed. The first YYZ-KBP flight is confirmed for Sunday July 19 and initially is a once a week operation with progressive connections at KBP to be implemented as times goes by and the travel...
Global Airline Alliances Have A Message For Travellers
In an unprecedented move, oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance have teamed up to let travellers know that they can fly with confidence. Collectively, the three global airline alliances represent over 50% of the world’s air traffic and they are joining forces to highlight the measures airlines are adopting to assure the well-being of customers while travelling. Dear Travelers, a video by the three alliances, provides a look at what customers can expect on their journeys over the coming months as travel restrictions are slowly eased and the world starts to...
Sustainable Aviation Fuels Need To Be Embraced
IATA is emphasizing the aviation industry’s commitment to its emissions reduction goals and called for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to prioritize investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to help power aviation’s contribution to the post-COVID-19 recovery. The airline industry associations call comes on the eve of the IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit which will meet virtually to debate moves toward a low-carbon future. The IEA is well placed to promote SAF production with its stakeholders both in government and in the fuel industry. The world must “build back...
Agents’ Choice: Vote While You Still Can
Baxter Media’s annual Agents' Choice Readership Survey has re-opened for a limited time in case you missed it the first time around. “The lockdown due to COVID-19 came right in the middle of our Agents’ Choice voting period,” explains Wendy McClung, Executive VP, Operations. “We realize that so many professionals in our industry look forward to selecting their favourites every year, so we wanted to re-open the survey to make sure everyone can have their say and cast their vote.” If you did miss the chance to vote in Agents’ Choice, Canada's original and most...