Etihad will initially offer two weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv on its flagship Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner The route will be operated by one of Etihad’s flagship aircraft, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways launched its regular flight…
The first flight where passengers and crew were both fully-vaccinated flight took off on Tuesday from Qatar in a historical step towards the full return of air travel. The flight, which took off on a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 from Doha's Hamad…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland International Airport was closed for nearly four hours Tuesday after a knife-wielding man threatened to harm himself but police managed to safely end the situation by turning up the heat, authorities said. Shortly before 6 a.m., a man…
Make room for neighbors on your next Delta Air Lines flight. The airline will end its yearlong practice of blocking middle seats on May 1, company officials announced Wednesday. Delta had extended the popular policy several times during the pandemic, most recently in…
Etihad Airways revamped its safety video not only to include new COVID-19 precautions but with stunning scenes of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. "Our safety video needed a refresh including the safety messaging requirements due to Covid," Etihad's executive director of guest experience…
White House Climate Envoy John Kerry is firing back against accusations of liberal hypocrisy after photos of him flying with a mask dangling from one ear circulated on social media. “Feels like there’s some St. Patrick’s day ‘malarkey’ afoot on Twitter,” Kerry tweeted Wednesday…
As the airline industry struggled to hang onto passengers during the pandemic, major U.S. airlines reinvented their change fee models to offer more flexibility. While for most booking classes, those changes became permanent, that stipulation did not apply to the lowest-cost flights,…
JetBlue will no longer require planes to be boarded from back to front, eliminating a pandemic-era policy aimed at reducing contact between passengers. Under the new policy, which The Points Guy reported went into effect on Monday, passengers on JetBlue will instead…
Leading airline and business groups are asking the Biden administration to develop temporary credentials that would let travelers show they have been tested and vaccinated for COVID-19, a step that the airline industry believes will help revive travel. Various groups and countries…
Jewish groups are accusing Frontier Airlines of anti-Semitism after the carrier canceled a Sunday flight from Miami to New York over a clash with a group of Hasidic Jewish travelers related to mask compliance. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council has accused the Frontier cabin crew of “bigoted behavior.”…