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Japan Airlines lets female crew ditch high heels after #KuToo campaign

Beh Lih Yi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 26 10:42 PM

Female flight attendants working for Japan Airlines will be allowed to wear trousers and abandon high heels next month, the company said Thursday, after a feminist campaign took off. Read more »

Emirates reverses decision to suspend all passenger flights

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 23 08:16 AM

Dubai carrier Emirates reversed on Sunday its decision to suspend all passenger flights, shortly after it said it would halt operations from March 25 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.   Read more »

Cancelled flights because of the community quarantine? Here are your options

Updated as of Mar 16 08:51 AM

As the metro shuts down, PAL, Cebu Pacific, and Air Asia have released guidelines on what to do when your booked flights get cancelled. By MAAN D’ASIS PAMARAN Read more »

Airline stocks nosedive as US travel ban hits EU travel sector

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 13 07:45 AM

Europe's travel sector reacted with dismay Thursday to a US-imposed trans-Atlantic travel ban that sent the share price of major airlines into free fall. Read more »

China's Trip.com bosses refuse salaries while coronavirus outbreak rages

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 11 08:54 AM

Top executives with Trip.com, China’s leading online travel service, will accept no salaries starting from this month as the company copes with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO has told employees.  Read more »

AirAsia offers 6 million promo seats despite travel woes over coronavirus

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 07 10:49 PM

AirAsia said Saturday it would offer 6 million promotional seats for its local and international flights as global air travel slowed down due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.   Read more »

Get a window seat, wipe it down: How to beat the virus on a plane

Tariro Mzezewa, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 04 08:56 AM

There’s been increased attention on cleanliness in airplanes in recent weeks, with the unsettling spread of the coronavirus around the world. Read more »

Emirates airline asks staff to take one month unpaid leave over coronavirus

Reuters
Updated as of Mar 03 05:36 PM

Emirates has cancelled flights to Iran, Bahrain and to most of China because of the virus, and countries around the world have placed strict restrictions on entry of foreigners. Read more »

Air China launches PH-China flights for passengers stranded due to COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 12:20 PM

China's flag carrier Air China on Thursday will mount special flights from Beijing to Manila and vice versa to evacuate stranded passengers due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.   Read more »

Cebu Pacific slashes domestic fares to blunt virus blow on tourism

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 20 02:15 PM

The Gokongwei-led carrier said base fares would be offered for as low as P88, including for travel "within the next few days." Read more »

Airlines may face quarantine 'challenge' for flight crew: airport manager

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 19 01:56 PM

The government partially lifted the travel ban to the two Chinese special administrative regions to allow outbound travel for Filipino workers. Arriving passengers and flight crew are required to undergo a 14-day quarantine.   Read more »

Virus travel ban: Ilang pasaherong galing Taiwan stranded sa NAIA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 08:03 PM

Ilang pasahero ang stranded sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport matapos idagdag sa travel ban ng Pilipinas ang Taiwan dahil sa banta ng novel coronavirus. Read more »

JetBlue founder files to launch new airline by end of 2020

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 10 09:31 AM

Flights for the new carrier -- named Breeze Airways -- could take off by the end of the year, JetBlue founder David Neeleman said. Read more »

PAL, Cebu Pacific suspend flights between Philippines, China

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 02 10:06 PM

Several airlines said Saturday it would trim flight service to mainland China and its territories amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus. Read more »

Cebu Pacific, PAL help trace seatmates of confirmed coronavirus patient

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 31 03:26 PM

Pilots and crew on the flights that carried the 38-year-old woman from Wuhan show no symptoms of the new strain. Aircraft used on the flights were disinfected, it said. Read more »

Singapore's Scoot cancels flight to China's Wuhan over virus outbreak

Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 12:30 PM

Singapore Airlines' budget carrier Scoot on Thursday cancelled its daily flight to China's central city of Wuhan, online flight information showed, after authorities locked down the center of a fast-spreading virus outbreak. Read more »

Cebu Pacific starts 2-day 'piso fare' sale

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 16 09:26 AM

The Jan. 16 to 17 sale period will be for travel from Jul. 1 to Dec. 31 this year, the Gokongwei-led airline said. Only online payments via the Cebu Pacific website or app will be accepted, it said. Read more »

Ukraine asks Iran to return black boxes from crashed plane

Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 04:34 PM

KIEV - Ukraine's prosecutor's office and security service have asked Iranian authorities to give Kiev black boxes from the crashed Ukrainian plane, the prosecutors office said on Wednesday. Read more »

Iran judiciary says arrests made over airliner downing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 06:00 PM

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced Tuesday that arrests have been made over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Tehran last week, without specifying how many.   Read more »

Iran missile operator who downed Ukrainian jet acted alone: commander

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 12:05 AM

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a "cruise missile" and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards' aerospace commander. Read more »