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During the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Aug. 7, Mark Galardo—Air Canada's executive vice president for revenue and network planning—said the airline had reduced its planned capacity growth for Atlantic routes by 8% and is redirecting those aircraft to Asia.
“This disruptive passenger first attacked the ground staff after being told that the flight had already closed and he had arrived late,” said Daniel Gallo of the Colombian Air Transport Workers’ Union.
The horror began for Rara Armstrong, a self-employed model and content creator from Gloucester, Gloucestershire, when she was on a family vacation in May at Hotel Ambassador Playa II in Benidorm, Spain.
And because it’s not a conversation with New Yorkers without a few smart mouths in the bunch, someone suggested driving straight through town and “spending the remaining 19 hours pretending it doesn’t exist,” while another Applephobe supposed that the best place to be in the city so nice they named it twice was “in the airport waiting for a plane out.”
He adds that FlyGabon aims to serve all nine provinces of Gabon once airport infrastructure meets commercial standards, enhancing accessibility and offering affordable pricing to help combat the high cost of living.
When you get to the point of having to police the minutiae of behavior like banning thongs (as Cinque Terre has done) and boob tube tops and football shirts (as a restaurant group did in Mallorca) and urinating in the ocean (as happened in the Costa del Sol) you’ve got to start wondering if there is actually a deeper problem at play and whether officials are just trying to capitalize on the headwinds of Europe quiet quitting its relationship with tourists and shift the blame from their poor tourism management.
It has long been popular with Brits, and so English is widely spoken, while the national carrier, TAP, is a bargain alternative to the likes of BA or Air France, offering extensive stateside service connecting via Lisbon.
Hong Kong Airlines is reviving its long-haul ambitions with the launch of a seasonal service to Australia starting in January 2025, as part of broader plans that will see its network expand to North America.
The Star Alliance member has released its latest list of future destinations, which includes eight international points in Europe, four in the Americas, nine in the Middle East and Africa, and two in the Asia-Pacific region.
If getting a lot of bang for your buck is more important than where your affordable flight lands, there are three destinations that US travelers should be keeping an eye on, the site said — give some thought to Las Vegas, Cancun and Paris, presumably taking it rather easy after spending a hectic summer in the spotlight.
Starting early next year, nonstop direct flights on Edelweiss Air will connect Switzerland’s largest city to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
Occupying 17,000 acres in the middle of one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, #1 in the rankings, is the definition of sprawling — research revealed that a passenger can wind up walking a whopping 2.16 miles just trying to get in or out of the gargantuan facility.