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British regional airline Flybe ceased trading on Saturday, January 29, and cancelled all its scheduled flights, leaving passengers stranded and making hundreds of workers redundant. A statement on Flybe’s website said the airline had entered administration, a form of protection from creditors. “Flybe has now ceased trading and all flights from and to the UK operated by Flybe have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled,” it said. It advised people due to fly not to travel to airports. https://www.facebook.com/Flybe/posts/pfbid025FuWLKhnMj3VfYMhyaJYfm7xooiWA5EFVxuoYKR1NFWogAfzzhbB5eHWtZjm86sol The airline initially slumped into bankruptcy in March 2020, eliminating 2,400 jobs, as coronavirus restrictions decimated the travel industry. The company was rescued after b...

Tourism and tourism spending during the 2023 Lunar New Year holiday bounced back in China following removal of travel restrictions and zero-Covid policies. According to information from the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 308 million trips were made over the course of the seven days beginning on January 21, an increase of 23% from the holiday season in 2017. That was 88.6% of the total count from 2019, before the pandemic started. In comparison to the previous year, national tourism revenue increased by 30%, reaching 375.8 billion yuan (US$55.4 billion), or 73% of what was recorded in 2019. “Thanks to the rapid transition to herd immunity and the release of pent-up demand, there has been a notable recovery in in-person services consumption during the week-long Lunar New ...

The governments of Kenya and Tanzania called out KLM on Saturday for spreading "unfounded" claims after the airline published on January 27 an advisory warning of travel disruptions due to purported civil unrest in the two countries. On Friday night, KLM on its social media pages and official website listed Kenya and Tanzania as countries experiencing civil unrest and that the airline will suspend its flights to the two countries on Monday. “Due to civil unrest in Tanzania and Kenya from Friday 27 January up to and including Monday 30 January 2023, some of our flights to, from or via Dar -es-Salam (DAR), Kilimanjaro (JRO), Zanzibar (ZNZ), and Nairobi (NRB) may be disrupted. We are doing our very best to help you on your way again,” read the statement posted on Friday night by KLM. ...

Alaska Airlines announced on Wednesday, January 25, the completion of its transition to paper cups for inflight beverages, a move which eliminates more than 55 million plastic cups annually and replaces them with a more planet-friendly alternative. The change to paper cups makes Alaska Airlines the first U.S. airline to eliminate plastic cups. Combined with our Boxed Water™ partnership, these changes are said to eliminate 2.2 million pounds of plastic waste from landfills every year, the equivalent weight of 24 Boeing 737s. "Doing the right thing is one of our core values and nothing is more right and urgent than protecting the beautiful places that we connect our guests to through flight," said Todd Traynor-Corey, managing director of guest products for Alaska Airlines. "This is anoth...