Heathrow Airport is refusing requests for extra flights from India before the country is added to the Government’s coronavirus red list at 4am tomorrow due to fears of long border queues. Four airlines asked the west London airport for a total of eight extra flights to arrive at the hub before the Friday deadline so that … Read more
Heathrow Airport is refusing requests for extra flights from India before the country is added to the Government’s coronavirus red list at 4am tomorrow due to fears of long border queues. Four airlines asked the west London airport for a total of eight extra flights to arrive at the hub before the Friday deadline so that … Read more
A cruise ship rescued hundreds of people in St Vincent yesterday after delivering supplies to the volcano-hit Caribbean island. Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Celebrity Reflection took 159 passengers, including 108 stranded Americans, from the island to Philipsburg in Dutch Sint Maarten. It also delivered water and other vital supplies to people left on the island coated in … Read more
The £90m snooper army: Government hires private contractor Mitie to carry out 10,000 home visits every day to check if passengers are in quarantine after flying back to UK from overseas Extra manpower will dramatically increase the capacity for daily home visits Mitie is tasked by Home Office to catch flouters not undergoing quarantine Overseas … Read more
This was the chaotic scene in Pakistan last night as thousands of travellers raced home to the UK to beat today’s hotel quarantine deadline as cases spiked in the country. Airline staff were forced to stand on check-in desks and urge people to form in orderly lines with one person in the scrum as ‘the worst experience … Read more
Airline passengers may be able to securely connect to their families and browse the internet mid-flight via LASER systems as early as mid-2022, European Space Agency claims The UltraAir system will see lasers transmit data via satellites to the ground It could replace radio-based satcom, whose bands are experiencing bottlenecks Ground-based tests will begin this … Read more
Passengers on Southwest Airlines flight erupt in applause after a woman who ‘refused to wear a mask’ was removed from the plane – but not before flipping them the bird Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight were seen applauding the removal of a woman who allegedly refused to wear a mask The woman is seen … Read more
Passengers on Southwest Airlines flight erupt in applause after a woman who ‘refused to wear a mask’ was removed from the plane – but not before flipping them the bird Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight were seen applauding the removal of a woman who allegedly refused to wear a mask The woman is seen … Read more
Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed, but a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping cocktails by the pool. In one of the anomalies of lockdowns that have shuttered hotels … Read more
Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed, but a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping cocktails by the pool. In one of the anomalies of lockdowns that have shuttered hotels … Read more