If you’re stuck in a line somewhere waiting to board a regular commercial flight or queueing on arrival in the vain hope you’ll soon be reunited with your baggage, one thing is certain.
People traveling for July 4 have reportedly experienced thousands of delayed and cancelled flights, even after hundreds were cancelled last weekend.
During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, “There are going to be challenges” with air travel over the July 4 holiday, and that despite receiving $50 billion in coronavirus relief
Police officers in northeastern China’s Dandong city arrested a 41-year-old woman surnamed Hao last week after she attempted to drive her elderly father to a hospital to retrieve medicine during a local Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the Global Times reported over the weekend, noting that the woman’s father attempted to slap one of the police officers after the officer shoved Hao to the ground.
The CDC upgraded its Monkeypox travel notice to “Level 2” on Monday and initially recommended masking for travelers retracted the guidance.
Gas prices are now 45 cents higher than they were just one month ago as they continue to climb day by day with no signs of slowing.
Australian health officials on Friday reported their first confirmed case of monkeypox, diagnosed in a traveler who recently returned from Britain to Melbourne. A possible second case in a Sydney man who recently traveled to Europe is under observation.
Beijing health officials on Monday warned that an upcoming communist holiday on May 1 known as “May Day” would cause an increase in travel into the Chinese national capital and therefore raise the city’s risk of facing a spike in Chinese coronavirus cases, the state-run Global Times reported.
President Joe Biden ordered the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to not enforce mask mandates at airports in light of a judge’s order on Monday that declared mandates on federal airplanes illegal.
Half of Americans say they are “comfortable” with domestic air travel over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, a Morning Consult survey found.
Japan’s government, which currently observes strict bans on foreign entries, made a rare exception to this policy on Tuesday when it welcomed 20 Ukrainians fleeing their country’s latest war with Russia into Tokyo on a government plane accompanying Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa upon his return from a recent trip to Poland.
Upwards of 3,500 U.S. flights were scrapped over the weekend and thousands more delayed just as travel rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Weather, staff availability, airspace congestion, and “technology issues” were just some of the reasons airlines gave for the disruptions as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg remained silent on the matter.
Jet2 announced on Wednesday the end of mask requirements for English passengers and Ryanair has committed to ending their mask mandate in the near future.
An estimated 500,000 people have fled Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union (E.U.) since Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said on Monday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration over federal rules that mandate mask-wearing in American airports and on airplanes.
Local Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Hangzhou city confirmed 24 new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus within the community on Monday, China’s official state-run press agency Xinhua reported.
Travel in anticipation of China’s Lunar New Year launched on Monday initiating a massive wave of bookings for train, bus, and air transport expected to reach 1.18 billion by the holiday season’s end on February 25, Xinhua, China’s official state-run press agency, reported.
Americans are prepared to defy the challenges posed by coronavirus, crowded roads and packed airport terminals to visit their friends, family and loved ones this Christmas, statistics released Thursday confirm.
Afghanistan’s Passport Department announced Monday the recent arrest of at least 75 “middlemen” and “dozens of other commission agents” for allegedly selling or attempting to sell “fake” Afghan passports and identification cards to an unknown number of people in Afghanistan.
BA has temporarily suspended flights to Hong Kong in order to avoid the risk of any more crews being sent to a notorious quarantine centre.
The EU is set to blacklist firms involved with transporting migrants to Belarus for the purpose of destabilising the bloc.
The coronavirus pandemic triggered a partial collapse of Asia’s tourism sector last year, eliminating 1.6 million jobs across five Asian countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported Thursday.
Beijing’s government imposed new travel restrictions on the city on Wednesday — including canceling or limiting flights into the capital from parts of China deemed at high-risk for coronavirus — just 79 days before Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects Thanksgiving air travel to rebound, nearing pre-pandemic levels.
Tourists are now allowed entry into Israel for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as long as they can show proof of vaccination. Israeli authorities recognize most vaccines enough to allow immediate entry into the country,
Joe Biden has spent 107 of his first 275 days as president in Delaware or at Camp David, according to a CNN analysis of his public schedule.
Canada’s federal government announced Thursday it will ban anyone without a “vaccine passport” — a certificate proving he or she has received a Chinese coronavirus vaccination — from boarding all planes, trains, and ships in Canada for foreign or domestic travel, starting October 30.
Google is pushing the climate change agenda by introducing an online tool to allow people to estimate their “carbon footprint” on flights.
Prince Harry’s eco tourism firm Travalyst announced Thursday it is teaming up with tech giant Google to promote itself to the world.
Utah’s Moab City Police Department has released a video of officers interacting with now-missing Gabby Petito — a 22-year-old who documented her cross-country travels on social media — and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie on August 12.
Putian city in southeastern China’s Fujian province sealed off more than half of its highway entry and exit points on Sunday as part of an effort by municipal authorities to contain a new, local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, Reuters reported on Monday.
Australia’s national carrier Qantas will ban unvaccinated travelers from international flights, CEO Alan Joyce reaffirmed this week.
The Oregon city, where protesters for months attacked police and businesses without consequences, is considering punishing Texas by ending trade with and travel to the state because of its law to protect the unborn from abortion after six weeks gestation.
President Joe Biden is weighing vaccines mandates for interstate travel, according to the Associated Press on Thursday.
A video of passengers duct taping a man to his seat on a plane after he allegedly groped female flight attendants is said to have led Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials to ask U.S. airports to monitor travelers for alcohol consumption.
China’s ruling Communist Party imposed travel restrictions on all 31 provincial-level regions of the country on Tuesday in an effort to contain the spread of China’s most recent coronavirus outbreak, the state-run press agency Xinhua reported.
Seven months after the Trump administration brokered a normalization deal between Morocco and Israel, the first direct commercial flights between the two countries launched on Sunday.
All Saudi Arabian citizens traveling outside the Kingdom from August 9 must receive two Chinese coronavirus vaccine doses before departing, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry announced Monday.
American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights over the weekend because of staffing shortages and additional issues, challenges the carrier is grappling with as travel demand increases.
A major international airport in southern China near Hong Kong canceled more than 400 flights on Friday after a staff member at a restaurant inside the airport tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported.