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NADRA makes polio vaccination card mandatory for travelers

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  • NADRA directed airlines’ check polio vaccination cards.
  • The instructions were issued to administration of all airports.
  • The passengers advised to keep updated online polio cards.

KARACHI: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has imposed a new travel restriction on passengers traveling abroad and directed them to mandatory check their polio vaccination cards.

The NADRA directed the airlines’ administrations to mandatory check the polio vaccination cards of passengers who are traveling abroad.

The instructions were issued to the administration of all airports and airlines. The passengers have been advised to keep updated online polio cards while traveling abroad.

According to the details, a new travel ban has been applied by NADRA on passengers traveling abroad.

In this regard, instructions have been issued to the management of the airlines to check the polio card of passengers from foreign countries.

NADRA authorities have issued the above instructions to the concerned officials of all airports and airlines across the country including Karachi, which will be implemented immediately.

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Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling summer tickets

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Heathrow

UK’s busiest airport has ordered airlines to stop selling summer tickets. Heathrow will cap the number of passengers who can depart each day to 100,000. This is 4,000 fewer than originally planned for the busy summer months. As the UK’s busiest airport struggles to keep up with the uptick in air travel, Heathrow Airport has … Read more

U.S. cautions airlines that it may pass laws that forbid child seat fees

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U.S.

The U.S. Transportation Department said it might give guidelines. Restricting them from charging additional expenses to permit small kids to sit close to going with relatives. Aircraft ought to carry out strategies empowering laborers “to make quick changes on a case by case basis,” the office said. The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday cautioned aircraft … Read more

Spirit delays Frontier vote in bidding contest with JetBlue

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Spirit

Spirit Airlines has postponed a shareholder vote on its merger with Frontier. The vote was originally supposed to take place on June 10th. JetBlue’s offer of $3.6 billion for Spirit was rejected by Spirit’s board. Once again postponing a shareholder vote on its merger with Frontier Airlines, Spirit Airlines is giving rival bidder JetBlue Airways, … Read more

EasyJet chief operating officer resigns

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EasyJet

EasyJet’s chief operational officer has stepped down. Peter Bellew quit “to seek other business opportunities,” EasyJet said in a statement. The airline has had a series of problems over the past few weeks. After a slew of flight cancellations and other issues that have plagued EasyJet over the past several weeks, the airline’s chief operational … Read more

American Airlines problem cancels thousands of July flights

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American Airlines

A scheduling bug caused hundreds of American Airlines flights to be cancelled over the weekend. The airline and union are debating additional pay for those whose flights were later reinstated. More than 12,000 flights in July were operated without a captain, first officer or both. According to their union, a scheduling platform bug caused American … Read more

New contract provides American Airlines pilots 17% increases

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American Airlines CEO says company has offered 17% salary rise. Company’s plan comes as regional airlines struggle with a pilot shortage. Delta’s pilots recently picketed at airports around the U.S. on Thursday. American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the company offered its pilots a 17% salary rise under a new contract. The latest proposal to … Read more

Spirit delays merger vote to continue talks with Frontier, JetBlue

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Spirit Airlines postpones shareholder vote on proposed merger with Frontier. Vote was originally set for June 10 but was postponed for the same reasons. Both airlines increased their offers in the build up to the vote. In order to further discuss options with Frontier Airlines and competing bidder JetBlue Airways, Spirit Airlines postponed the shareholder … Read more

Long airport queues and luggage piles are new problems for summer travel

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Luggage

Piles of luggage beside baggage belts in airports from Canada to Europe.  Airlines scramble to bring back workers lost during COVID-19. Some Canadian workers are being offered raises and double pay to work. Baggage left strewn on the ground at Dublin Airport. An estimated 220,000 to 240,000 people work in ground handling in Europe, up … Read more

A large cruise ship diverts its course to pick up a child who was denied boarding by airlines

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airlines

After a breakdown on a plane, a 15-year-old autistic kid and his mother were trapped in the Caribbean for three weeks. When Carlos tried to board the United Airlines plane, Elijah, who has ‘low-functioning, non-verbal autism,’ stopped at the doorway. The family was notified by the pilot that they needed to exit the plane, so … Read more

Nigerian airlines suspend flights over soaring fuel prices

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Nigerian

Nigerian airlines will cancel all flights starting Monday due to increased jet fuel prices, according to an umbrella group of operators. Fuel prices have risen dramatically around the world since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, prompting the West to levy sanctions on Moscow. The Airline Operators of Nigeria said the price of jet fuel had … Read more

JetBlue is trimming its summer period to prevent more flight disruptions

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JetBlue Airways

JetBlue Airways is drafting to trim its summer schedule to prevent flight disorders as it scrambles to hire onwards of what executives expect to be a monster peak travel season. “We’ve already reduced May capacity 8-10% and you can expect to see a similar size capacity pull for the remainder of the summer,” Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue’s … Read more

Median gauge offers good read on price trends

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Median gauge

Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures. The most common measure of underlying or “core” inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, has been hard to read during the pandemic. The traditional measure came into wider use in the 1970s, … Read more

Hopes for recovery in focus at Asia’s biggest airshow

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SINGAPORE: Asia’s biggest airshow takes place in Singapore this week with the aviation sector hoping 2022 marks a turning point in a region where tough curbs have left coronavirus-battered airlines struggling to recover. The event, which takes place every two years and kicks off on Tuesday, brings together hundreds of airlines, plane manufacturers and other … Read more

Indian gov’t issues revised guidelines for int’l arrivals

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Indian gov't

NEW DELHI – The Indian government revised guidelines for international arrivals on Thursday, removing the category of at-risk countries introduced at the time of emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. As per the new guidelines, self-monitoring of 14 days for the COVID-19 infected people with symptoms have been recommended against the current seven days … Read more

UK forces airlines to fly more as economy reopens

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uk airlines

LONDON: Airlines must operate more flights in Britain this summer as demand recovers from the pandemic or lose lucrative take-off and landing slots, the UK government warned on Monday. Carriers operating in Britain are currently using about 50 per cent of their slots as the sector continues to recover from the long-running Covid crisis. This … Read more

Hong Kong airport bans transit passengers from 153 countries

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Hong Kong

HONG KONG – Passengers from more than 150 nations will be banned from transiting through Hong Kong, its airport said Friday, in the latest tightening of the city’s strict anti-virus travel measures. The move deepens Hong Kong’s global isolation as the city pursues a staunch zero-Covid policy, and creates new headaches for airlines some of … Read more

Carbon offsets: a booming market or greenwashing?

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Carbon

GLASGOW: Corporate carbon polluters plant trees to counter their CO2 emissions, but activists warn against greenwashing and say such afforestation schemes detract from the emissions reductions needed to combat climate change. Voluntary carbon offsetting is being hotly debated at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Here’s a backgrounder. How does it work? Carbon offsetting is when a company … Read more

Mideast airlines to need 3,000 new planes by 2040

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DUBAI: As regional and international travel and cargo demand recover, airlines in the Middle East will require 3,000 new aircraft valued at $700 billion and aftermarket services such as maintenance and repair worth $740 billion, Arab News quoted Boeing’s prediction in a report. In its 2021 Commercial Market Outlook, a forecast of 20-year demand for commercial airplanes … Read more

Cathay Pacific to increase its usage of sustainable fuels

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Cathay Pacific will increase its usage of sustainable fuels

Cathay Pacific has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 by committing to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for 10% of total fuel usage by 2030. For more than a decade, the carrier has led the way in promoting SAF development. It was the first airline to invest in Fulcrum BioEnergy in … Read more

No quick recovery in sight for global aviation industry

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Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA)

DUBAI: Global airline capacity is expected to increase less than 15 per cent this year due to travel restrictions, strict lockdowns in some countries and slow progress on the global vaccination drive, Khaleej Times quoted industry reports and experts as saying. According to the UK-based global travel data provider OAG, global airlines’ capacity is unlikely to reach … Read more

Fly to Paris with SriLankan Airlines

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SriLankan Airlines plans to launch flights to Paris from November

SriLankan Airlines has announced new routes to Paris. From November 1, 2021, SriLankan will run scheduled flights between Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). SriLankan would begin three nonstop flights to France every week, on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, using an Airbus A330-300 aircraft equipped for 269 economy and … Read more

EasyJet discards takeover proposal, plots $2.0 bn lifeline

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EasyJet

British airline EasyJet on Thursday publicized it had forbidden an unwanted takeover approach from an unknown suitor and revealed plans to boost its finances battered by pandemic effect.

EasyJet said in a statement that the bid had unappreciated the group, adding that the suitor was no longer considering a proposal and that the airline would now sell new shares to increase around £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion, 1.4 billion euros).

EasyJet temporarily added that it had protected a new credit facility totaling $400 million.

The coronavirus crunch and travel limitations have rocked airlines globally.

Chief executive Johan Lundgren stated the financing enhancement would also place EasyJet for development, letting it take benefit of investment chances “as the European aviation industry emerges from the pandemic”.

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European travel restrictions forces airlines to make adjustments

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European Travel Restrictions forces Airlines to make adjustments

Airlines in both the United States and Europe are making changes and canceling flights in response to European Union proposals regarding new, more severe travel regulations for Americans. Last week, the EU said that it will recommend that the United States be removed from its 27-country “safe list” for accepting foreign tourists. The announcement was … Read more

Airlines reduce fall fares to attract more passengers

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Airlines Reduce Fall Fares to Attract More Passengers

It’s a tried-and-true commercial strategy that dates back centuries, lowers the price, and hopes that the difference is offset by increased volume. According to Business Insider, this is what airlines appear to be doing in an attempt to attract more passengers during what is typically a slow period for leisure travelers. While the spring and … Read more

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