Singapore Airlines will become the first airline to trial the IATA Travel Pass mobile application in a pilot program involving passengers traveling one-way from Singapore (SIN) to London (LHR) from March 15-28.
Panama-based Copa Airlines will become the first carrier in the Americas to trial the IATA Travel Pass mobile health app, designed to facilitate air transport amid the pandemic.
The UK has extended the temporary waiver on airport slot rules through its summer 2021 season, slot co-ordination company Airport Coordination Limited (ACL) has confirmed.
Air cargo volumes improved toward the end of 2020, but the sector is still facing a shortage of capacity with many long-haul passenger flights remaining grounded, removing belly capacity from the market.
IATA has renewed its call for governments to ensure that aviation-sector employees are counted among the essential workers who will receive COVID-19 vaccines early.
Forward bookings globally for the peak Christmas travel season are 80% below where they would normally be, according to figures released by IATA, which show the trend for late bookings and how far off the industry is from true recovery.
Air traffic in Europe fell to 35.5% of 2019 levels in the week to Nov. 29, Eurocontrol figures showed, as COVID-19 travel restrictions and national lockdowns continued to affect demand for travel.
The number of unique city-pair connections has dropped by more than 7,000 this year and London has lost its crown as the world’s best-connected city, according to a report published by IATA.
The numbers of airline accidents and accident fatalities are tracking down this year, although a factor in the decline will be the big drop in flights caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Air cargo volume is set to grow by just over 13% in 2021, about twice the pace at which world trade was expected to expand, the International Air Transport Association predicts.
IATA is reviewing the findings of a European report into the climate impacts of aviation beyond CO2 emissions, but has cautioned against jumping to premature conclusions.
U.S. LCC JetBlue has performed the first transaction on IATA’s Aviation Carbon Exchange (ACE), a new carbon-offset trading platform which went live on Nov. 25.
IATA believes that the Asia-Pacific region could lead on its initiatives to revive air traffic and is calling on governments to implement them as the airline body continues to hold multilateral talks.
IATA downgraded its economic outlook for 2020 and 2021 further as the recovery of air travel has been much slower than expected, but there is renewed hope as a recovery in 2021 appears a lot more viable with the imminent arrival of COVID-19 vaccines.
