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Grounded airline Jet Airways may be able to resume operations by summer next year if the everything goes as per plan, said its new owners. The airline may start both domestic and international operations with all the slots that were available to Jet Airways before it stopped flying.

Australia’s second-largest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months on Monday, an arrival that will test the state of Victoria’s revamped hotel quarantine system.

December 7 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka is to reopen the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for foreign tourist arrivals by following a travel bubble system. Under the proposed system, tourists will be able to visit only selected destinations in Sri Lanka. A January deadline has been set to finalise the date to reopen the airport with the approval of the...

Ameena Hussein's book on the 14 th.Century Moroccan traveler is a rich tapestry of his observations; insights into his personality; his likes and dislikes; and his comfort zones in an alien, multi-cultural land.

The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a new temporary rule that could require tourist and business travelers from two dozen countries, most in Africa, to pay a bond of as much as $15,000 to visit the United States.

In the four decades since its economy was opened, Sri Lanka has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has proposed to a recently appointed Sri Lanka Tourism Advisory Committee to consider opening up the country for foreign travellers under two options which include tourists undergoing a mandatory 14-day quarantine period after arriving here or travelling under a strict travel bubble.

Singapore, November 7 (Reuters) - Hit by cabin fever, hundreds of Singapore residents itching to get out of the tiny country boarded a "cruise to nowhere" on Friday, a rare chance to sail the seas after the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the cruise industry. Before starting their short "seacation" on the 335-metre (1,100 ft) World Dream, passengers underwent...

October 21 (Independent) - A midnight feast in Singapore, breakfast over Siberia, lunch over Greenland and breakfast once more before the final approach to New York: that is what awaits passengers booked on the world’s longest scheduled passenger flight. Singapore Airlines flight 24 is to take off from the city-state on 9 November, destination New York JFK. The trip is...

October 16 (Fox News) - Flying amid the coronavirus pandemic might be safer than you thought – if everyone wears a mask. A new Department of Defense study, conducted with United Airlines, found that the risk of COVID-19 exposure is “extremely unlikely,” even on a 12-hour flight. Researchers conducted hundreds of tests aboard some of United’s Boeing 777 and 767 aircraft, both in flight and on...