Mexico to vaccinate all adults who reside in popular tourist destinations The Mexican government, despite seeming not overly stressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, have just announced that they plan to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to every adult who resides in one of five major tourism destinations, ahead of the summer tourist…
NHS app will be Covid passport Today Grant Shapps confirmed that the NHS app will be adapted so that it can be used as a Covid passport for travel. This should be relatively easy to adapt as it already shows the date and type of vaccination. I checked mine after…
Yesterday CEO & Chairman of British Airways, Mr. Sean Doyle joined Eurocontrol Aviation Straight Talk Live to talk about how British Airways is fairing and his plans for how to build BA back as travel starts to return. and see how to build that better. First, there was an update…
British Airways adds four new destinations British Airways has today announced four new short-haul routes to Wroclaw (WRO) and Gdansk (GDN) in Poland, Riga (RIX) in Latvia and Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) in Romania. I’ll admit I don’t know much about some of the destinations but Gdansk is definitely on my list….
New Amex £50 off travel Another travel-related offer has appeared on most of the Amex cards except the BA ones. You will get a £50 statement credit on eligible spend of £200+ online at American Express Travel by 31/5/2021. Valid once per Card for the first 30,000 Cardmembers to save. …
Finnair to accept vaccine instead of test Finnair will start accepting a COVID-19 vaccination certificate from the first vaccination dose as an alternative to a negative test result or a certificate of a previous COVID-19 infection, on Finnair flights to Finland from May 11, 2021. This is the first time…
Heathrow Terminal 3 planned to reopen – but no lounge crawls just yet! There were calls last week for Heathrow to reopen Terminal 4 due to the 6 hours queues at immigration. Which completely neglected the fact that it was the immigration procedures checking every single PLF form, that was…
Collinson has opened a new drive-through test site at Gatwick’s APH car park Airport Parking and Hotels (APH) has partnered with Collinson to open up a new, drive-through Covid-19 test site, situated right near Gatwick airport. Only 12 minutes from the airport (by bus transfer), prices start from only £40…
British Airways Elemis spas will not reopen When the BA spas closed around the world, I always assumed that they would reopen again. Sadly I now fear that the “new normal” will be lots of things we took for granted being cut in the name of cost savings. The first…
Damning report from Transport Select Committee calls for 1 May traffic light confirmation Last week I covered a few parts of the discussions by the Transport Select Committee which included many contributions from the aviation and travel industry. In an analysis of the Government’s Global Travel Taskforce Report, the Committee…
