Rex okayed to operate the 'Golden Triangle'
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australia's Regional Express (Rex) has been cleared by regulator CASA to operate capital city routes using its new B737s.
NSW reports airport worker Covid case - considers crew quarantine
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australia's New South Wales has reported its first coronavirus case in nearly two weeks - an airport worker who shuttles international airlines' staff to the airport.
Wex buys eNett for less
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Payment solutions provider Wex has finalised the purchase of virtual travel payments providers eNett and Optal at a lower price than previously agreed and says it has settled a UK court case brought by former eNett majority owner Travelport.
Buttigieg to head Biden's DoT
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
USA president-elect Joe Biden has chosen Pete Buttigieg to be his Secretary of Transportation.
Star to move IT infrastructure to AWS
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Airline marketing group Star Alliance is moving its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), including its data, platforms and business-critical applications, allowing it to close its data centres and reduce associated costs by an estimated 25 per cent.
Star Alliance's Australian co-ordinator to retire.
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Star Alliance Australian coordinator Gordon Young will retire at the end of this month.
Jetstar to add planes from Asian fleets
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australian budget airline Jetstar may draw on its Asia-based fleets in Singapore and Japan to add capacity 'at home' as the states reopen their borders, with its domestic capacity to be 10 per cent higher in March 2021 than it was a year earlier.
Aust government opens travel support applications
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
The application portal for the Australian government's recently-announced A$128 million Covid-19 Consumer Travel Support Program has gone live.
Full criteria and eligibility details of the program are on line at grants.gov.au.
Reactivating parked fleets 'has its own challenges'
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
As BTN has warned since the B737 MAX was grounded in 2019, getting any fleet back into the air safely via a reactivation program is proving a challenge to airlines.
Lund joins Flair as cco
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Canada's Flair Airlines has appointed Garth Lund as its chief commercial officer.
Singapore opens limited business travel scheme
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Singapore is to open up limited business travel to all countries next month, with a limited number of business, official and high-economic-value travellers allowed entry.
Dubai plows ahead with Expo 2020
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped construction of Dubai’s latest megaproject - a new city twice the size of Monaco that will host what organisers say will be the largest event ever staged in the Arab world.
Bring on the vaccine, industry says
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
With more than 300,000 dead and some US cities under stay-at-home orders, 69 per cent of Americans say they will not travel for Christmas, and 65 per cent are unlikely to holiday in the first few months of 2021.
Rex okayed to operate the 'Golden Triangle'
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australia's Regional Express (Rex) has been cleared by regulator CASA to operate capital city routes using its new B737s.
NSW reports airport worker Covid case - considers crew quarantine
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australia's New South Wales has reported its first coronavirus case in nearly two weeks - an airport worker who shuttles international airlines' staff to the airport.
Wex buys eNett for less
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Payment solutions provider Wex has finalised the purchase of virtual travel payments providers eNett and Optal at a lower price than previously agreed and says it has settled a UK court case brought by former eNett majority owner Travelport.
Buttigieg to head Biden's DoT
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
USA president-elect Joe Biden has chosen Pete Buttigieg to be his Secretary of Transportation.
Star to move IT infrastructure to AWS
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Airline marketing group Star Alliance is moving its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), including its data, platforms and business-critical applications, allowing it to close its data centres and reduce associated costs by an estimated 25 per cent.
Star Alliance's Australian co-ordinator to retire.
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Star Alliance Australian coordinator Gordon Young will retire at the end of this month.
Jetstar to add planes from Asian fleets
- BTN News
- Thursday, 17 December 2020
Australian budget airline Jetstar may draw on its Asia-based fleets in Singapore and Japan to add capacity 'at home' as the states reopen their borders, with its domestic capacity to be 10 per cent higher in March 2021 than it was a year earlier.
Aust government opens travel support applications
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
The application portal for the Australian government's recently-announced A$128 million Covid-19 Consumer Travel Support Program has gone live.
Full criteria and eligibility details of the program are on line at grants.gov.au.
Reactivating parked fleets 'has its own challenges'
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
As BTN has warned since the B737 MAX was grounded in 2019, getting any fleet back into the air safely via a reactivation program is proving a challenge to airlines.
Lund joins Flair as cco
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Canada's Flair Airlines has appointed Garth Lund as its chief commercial officer.
Singapore opens limited business travel scheme
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Singapore is to open up limited business travel to all countries next month, with a limited number of business, official and high-economic-value travellers allowed entry.
Dubai plows ahead with Expo 2020
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped construction of Dubai’s latest megaproject - a new city twice the size of Monaco that will host what organisers say will be the largest event ever staged in the Arab world.
Bring on the vaccine, industry says
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 16 December 2020
With more than 300,000 dead and some US cities under stay-at-home orders, 69 per cent of Americans say they will not travel for Christmas, and 65 per cent are unlikely to holiday in the first few months of 2021.