The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has revealed details of its proposed temporary layered approach to biosecurity for restarting passenger flights amid the COVID-19 crisis. The Association also announced a commitment by the airline CEOs on its Board of Governors to five principles for reconnecting the world by air transport. IATA has published Biosecurity for
EasyJet has admitted that approximately nine million customers have been affected by a “highly sophisticated cyber attack.” It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”. The airline has said it will contact the affected customers directly within the next few days
Since the country's Ministry for Foreign Affairs closed borders to all non-essential travel on 19 March, Finnair has had to scale back its operations to 5 per cent of regular carrying capacity.
British transport secretary Grant Shapps has indicated that countries with low Covid-19 infection rates may be exempted from quarantine measures set to go into effect in the UK over the coming weeks.
Emirates has abandoned coronavirus blood tests after Dubai's Department of Health said they were inaccurate.
Ireland’s Ryanair has received £600 million from the UK’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). This comes despite chief executive Michael O’Leary being heavily critical of state aid provided to other airlines across Europe, including the Lufthansa Group, Air France-KLM, Alitalia and more, calling it “unlawful state aid”. Speaking to SKY News at the end of
