The
South China Morning Post reports today that in addition to the quarantine skip, fully-vaccinated arriving crews may bypass isolation regardless of country of departure.
According to the news outlet, the relaxation of the guidelines came just hours after the government tightened restrictions for banning flights arriving from countries that are deemed “high risk,” particularly countries in which new coronavirus variants have been identified. Entry rules for passengers arriving from those countries were tightened as well.
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What Countries are Low Risk?
On the cargo side, the government has told airlines that unvaccinated pilots who traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand can avoid quarantine as long as they remained separated from the general population during their stay in the country.
MIAMI – Leading international cargo carrier DHL (D0) is expanding its routes in Asia and the Pacific to the US and Europe to meet the growing demand for freight services.
To do so, D0 counts on its fleet of Boeing 777F freighters, offering up to 2,350 tons of weekly capacity, allowing for increased delivery speed. D0 will also be relying on its partners of AeroLogic and Kalitta Air to operate some of the flights.
E-commerce is one of the main reasons for D0’s rapid growth and is estimated to reach a value of US US$2.5tn by 2024, while customers worldwide become more reliant on e-commerce, especially during COVID-19.
MIAMI – Qantas Airways (QF) plans all of its Airbus A380s to fly again, signaling optimism that global air travel demand will recover and the superjumbo will be viable once more.
“All of the A380s, we believe, will be reactivated. QF CEO Alan Joyce said at a CAPA Live virtual conference on Wednesday that the airline had invested a lot of money on them. “They’ll be good aircraft once demand is there.”
In June, the Australian airline grounded all 12 of its four-engined behemoths, claiming that they would be made obsolete for at least three years. Joyce says that the A380s can be reactivated in three to six months if international demand returns sooner than anticipated.
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MIAMI – This week,
Airways sat down (virtually) with Vincent Frascogna, Vice President of Americas at Etihad Airways (EY), to reflect on how the airline has navigated through COVID-19, and their path moving forward.
This interview marks one year since the airline was forced to ground their entire fleet. Numerous border closures, millions of COVID-19 cases and a shattered travel industry later, airlines can now begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the incredible scientific innovation of vaccines leading to an eventual increase in travel.
Etihad has continually made strides to offer consumer-centered solutions to problems invoked by COVID-19. These include increased partnerships with organizations like IATA, creating a Wellness Program, being the first airline to institute a negative PCR requirement for travelers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others.