Air Transport

Emirates plans to operate passenger services to limited destinations next week.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has renewed its call for government relief measures as the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in MENA deepen.

Emirates has ramped up its capability to process refunds, reaffirming its commitment to customers and travel trade partners impacted by travel disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Emirates has said it is busy protecting and readying the world's largest all wide-body fleet to take to the skies.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) supports the wearing of face coverings for passengers and masks for crew while on board aircraft as a critical part of a layered approach to biosecurity to be implemented temporarily when people return to traveling by air.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling for aviation-specific financial relief measures from the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to address the severe impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the air transport sector.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on the government of Jordan to provide urgent financial relief to airlines as they struggle to survive the devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Etihad Airways has repatriated Mrs Farah Oubed along with her young son Adam and newborn baby Ahmad.

Emirates managers are said to be ‘agonising’ over future plans for the long-haul dominated airline.

Rolls-Royce announced this morning that it will lose up to 9,000 jobs as it addresses the change in demand following the collapse of the aviation industry due to Covid-19.

Reuters has reported that Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways has laid off hundreds of employees this month,, after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to ground flights, according to industry and company sources.

Emirates has unveiled multi-faceted measures for employee and customer care at every step of the travel journey, redefining safety and hygiene standards on board and on the ground. The new measures took effect today, with the resumption of regularly scheduled passenger flights to nine destinations.

Saudi Arabia is to resume some domestic flights from Sunday as it eases restriction measures.

Tom Peaford, an A320 senior first officer, looks at the issues affecting flight crews as airlines begin the return to service.

The region’s largest airline, Emirates, is underway with its staff cuts as employees were called into the Dubai head office and training centre today to be issued with formal dismissal letters.

Some 1500 ‘foreign staff’ are to lose their jobs with Kuwait Airways. The airline has not yet said which departments will be affected.

Lebanon's Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport will reopen to international movements, the transport minister announced today.

Dubai-based A320 pilot Tom Peaford looks at the changing world for airline pilots and manages expectations.

Flydubai’s has been making preparations for the airline’s commercial return to service following the coronavirus pandemic.

IATA and the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific are joining the International Civil Aviation Organization Middle East (ICAO MID) in urging governments of the Middle East to implement ICAO’s global guidelines for restoring safe air connectivity.

Qatar Airways has resumed flights to New York (JFK) from 19 June (rising to 10 weekly from 2 July) and to Boston, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles from 1 July.

IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac yesterday stressed at IATA’s media briefing the urgent need for governments to address the quarantine issue, and for countries seeking to open up their economies, travel and tourism is a critical sector.

Four hundred more Etihad pilots are to leave the Abu Dhabi airline as another swathe of job cuts was announced.

The commercial aviation industry’s rebound from COVID-19 is underway, with the number of airline flights starting to gradually increase, but widespread recovery could take several years.