Countries that quickly rolled out Covid vaccines are making rapid progress toward the return of flying, including in Europe, where several nations have started to relax restrictions.
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.
The study also showed that risk of virus exposure could be reduced by not using overhead storage bins and by boarding passengers in window seats first.
The ban will also impact people who have prior approval to enter Singapore, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong, co-chair of a multi-ministerial task force handling the pandemic.
Cargo flights are still not banned and Ottawa is hoping that India, which has suspended vaccine exports, will send the bulk of 1.5 million AstraZeneca doses Canada had purchased.
The red list status, which is effective from 4 am local time, came amid a spike in Covid cases in India and resulted in PM Boris Johnson cancelling his planned visit to New Delhi.
Boeing says that while Covid remains a near-term challenge, domestic demand will bounce back to 2019 levels through 2021, while international traffic will recover by 2023.
A popular refrain is that once people fly private, they aren’t eager to go back to the headaches of commercial flights, but Gates' interest has little to do with his own travel plans.
The poll of over 30,000 people shows 72% of Europeans & Americans and 84% of Chinese people think their own behaviour can make a difference in tackling climate change.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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