From Sydney, where passengers are waiting for hours to check in, to chaotic scenes in India & Europe, aviation industry doesn’t have nearly enough people to run operations smoothly.
At least 25 flights operated by Boeing 777 jets to the US were cancelled after the rollout of 5G services was announced. Alarm bells have been sounded in India too.
The decision to exempt vaccinated travellers from mandatory hotel quarantine has come as a relief for the Indian diaspora in the UK, who had been demanding the easing of travel norms.
Air India Ltd. plans to increase its weekly frequency of flights to the US to 32 starting 11 May, up from the current 29. That compares with about 33 weekly flights before Covid.
Sichuan Airlines said it has decided to suspend the flights due to sudden changes in the epidemic situation in India and to reduce the number of imported cases.
The government has also registered FIRs against two private hospitals in the city for providing ‘false’ information about availability of beds there on an official app.
Laid low by a Covid outbreak that’s decimated passenger demand, airlines will be the workhorses of the attempt to eradicate it, hauling billions of vials of vaccine across the globe.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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