On the inauguration of the latest service linking Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta, VietJet, Vietnam’s low-cost carrier, is offering more than one million Zero-fare tickets for travelers. With flight time of only three hours, passengers can easily travel between Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta and many other Asian countries like Japan and Korea.…
The Next-Generation of Corporate Travel Retailing: Deem, Powered by Travelport+
Travelport confirmed the integration with Deem, a leading corporate travel management platform, with Travelport+. The announcement comes just months after Travelport publicized the game-changing acquisition, a move intended to fulfill a growing need for a tight, fully-integrated tool that provides access and end-to-end servicing of all multi-source content, including NDC. “Business travelers want, and deserve, the same…
EL AL and Israel welcome the First Flight powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. is proud to announce the arrival of its 16th Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which landed in Israel on the morning of Monday 31 July after a direct flight from the Boeing factory in Seattle, WA, using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The historic flight marks EL AL’s first use of SAF and…
Langham Hospitality Group appoints Senior Vice President of Operations, China
Langham Hospitality Group has strategically appointed Lo Young to the role of Senior Vice President of Operations, China, based in the Shanghai Corporate Office for mainland China, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. He will also serve on the group’s executive committee, underlining the importance of the region to the company’s growth. In his…
Major transformation plans for Oman Air
In the interest of financial sustainability and operational continuity, Eng. Saeed Al Mawali, Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, and Chairman of Oman Air, has announced a comprehensive programme to restructure the airline. The programme, which will be implemented over the next 3-4 years, aims to address ongoing losses and the accumulation of debt,…
Kenya Airways and Delta Airlines expand codeshare partnership
Kenya Airways (KQ) and Delta Airlines have expanded their codeshare agreement, allowing customers of the pair more travel options within Africa and the United States. The partnership which now includes KQ’s Nairobi-New York service took effect on Saturday. A codeshare is an agreement in which cooperating carriers publish and market the same flight under their own…
FCM India’s Meetings & Events revenue grows by more than 50% pre-covid
FCM Travel India has reported a more than 50 per cent growth in the last six months, demonstrating that events in person are back in focus. High demand is seen right across the industry, despite organisations facing changing attitudes to work-life boundaries and budgetary constraints. As per the Global Quarterly Trend Report by FCM Consultancy,…
Greater Bay Airlines offers 100 aviation-related jobs at Hong Kong International Airport Career Expo 2023
Greater Bay Airlines (GBA) participated in the Hong Kong International Airport Career Expo 2023 co-organised by the Hong Kong International Airport and Labour Department. GBA will offer about 100 aviation-related job opportunities from more than 20 positions at this three-day expo held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 4-6 August 2023. Accompanied by…
Frameless – the art gallery in Marble Arch, London that puts you in the picture.
Frameless has introduced Frameless Lates where you get to experience an upcoming artist as well as the greats. 4 Perspective is everything and it was in The World Around gallery at Frameless, in London’s Marble Arch, that I had a shocking paradigm shift. As the image of Rubens’ The Rainbow Landscape shifted around the room,…
DOT plans to build 15 more TRAs across PH
In a move to further spur tourism development in Mindanao, the Department of Tourism (DOT), led by Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco, has formally inaugurated the first Tourist Rest Area (TRA) in the region located at the scenic Manolo Fortich town in Bukidnon province on Friday (August 4). This is the second TRA that was formally…