A more lenient tax regime will encourage airlines to create new routes, bringing in additional revenue to the country’s airport infrastructure and tourism supply chain.
After piloting a number of health verification applications since the start of the year, China Airlines and EVA Air will now trial the IATA Travel Pass.
Aeromexico has announced its third new route in the past week with plans to launch a seasonal service between the Mexican vacation destination of Cancun and São Paulo in Brazil.
Emirates and Airlink have announced the expansion of their existing partnership into a unilateral codeshare agreement, giving travellers to and from South Africa access to more than 40 domestic and regional destinations across 12 African countries.
Due to the Khareef season demand for travel to Salalah in Oman’s southern Dhofar Governorate, Oman Air has gradually increased weekly flight frequencies from an average of 18 weekly flights in July to a total of 41 weekly flights at the beginning of August.
Airlines are scrambling to adjust their operations after essential air traffic to and from Afghanistan came to a standstill on Aug.15 as the Taliban declared victory over the capital Kabul.