Quarantines continue to frustrate travellers and strangle airlines a year into the pandemic, with the threat from highly infectious coronavirus variants meaning enforced isolations are mostly getting longer and stricter rather than easing up.
Even as vaccines embolden countries like Israel and the UK to plot paths to reopening, authorities around the world are tightening the screws to stop Covid-19 mutations slipping through quarantine models designed to contain a less aggressive virus.
With questions hanging over the efficacy of vaccines on mutated strains, this new front in the public-health battle is damping hopes of a swift rebound in international air travel.
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United Airlines has grounded 24 Pratt and Whitney powered Boeing 777s pending an investigation into the incident on Saturday which saw a serious inflight uncontained engine failure on flight UA328. Japan has also told airlines not to operate Boeing 777s with Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines both within the country and for overflights. The Japan […]
Hong Kong budget will be a difficult balancing act
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