Health experts are also questioning the value of the arrival testing rule, saying it diverts critical lab resources

Business

WestJet

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Air Travel

Travel

Air Canada

Politics

Vaccines

Coronavirus

Ottawa, Ontario

Ottawa

Financial Post

The Globe & Mail

Calgary Herald

Air Canada, WestJet, Pearson airport urge end to COVID-19 testing for vaccinated travellers

While COVID-19 has devastating impacts on air travel, the Canadian Rockies International Airport has tightened operations and projects to run at a profit for 2022.

Cranbrook Daily Townsman

Cranbrook airport continues to weather pandemic challenges - Cranbrook Daily Townsman

- Britain's vaccinated travellers will be able to go on half-term holidays next month without taking COVID-19 tests on their return, The Times reported. Transport minister Grant Shapps is in favour of ending the testing system for the double-jabbed in time for the February break, the report said. An announcement on the change in guidance would be made on Jan. 26, the report said. (

Europe

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Medical

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London, England

London

Reuters

Daily Mirror

The Independent

Hindustan Times 

The Telegraph

Britain will no longer require COVID tests for fully vaccinated travellers

More than 2,000 flights scheduled for Sunday have been canceled as the East Coast braces for a large winter storm.

US & Canada

winter storm

North America

National Weather Service

Washington DC

Washington

Yahoo News

Global News

More than 2,000 Sunday flights canceled due to weekend storm

Last month, a Qatar Airways jet landed with an extra passenger on board — a baby who was delivered by a Canadian doctor mid-flight.

Offbeat

Wholesome

Toronto

BBC News

CBC News

News18 India

CTV News

A Canadian doctor helped to deliver a baby mid-flight, at 35,000 feet in the air

It’s been said that in the southeastern United States, whether your soul is headed for Heaven or Hell, it will have to change planes in Charlotte or Atlanta. Thus is the notoriety of commercial aviation’s hub-and-spoke system.Regional flights often require you to fly through a hub — and it’s often faster to just go by automobile — and make it easier to just stay home.

United States

Boston Herald

Commentary: Reinventing air travel by ‘planepooling’

The emergence of the omicron variant has slowed air travel on an already weak winter demand, leaving some carriers to experience nearly empty flights. Some EU airlines are hoping for relief from the European Commission.

European Union

Deutsche Welle

EU airlines seek landing slots relief to avoid 'ghost flights'

Three women were charged on Thursday in connection to allegedly beating a Delta Air Lines security officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport in September, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn announced.

Delta

New York, NY

New York

abc News

Associated Press News

CBS News

The Washington Post

Three women charged in attack of Delta security officer

An Arizona mother went viral on Twitter after calling out Delta Air Lines for not having a nonbinary gender option when booking tickets (Pictures: Getty / Twitter @@truth_trumps)A mother has publicly called out Delta Air Lines after she was unable to purchase a plane ticket for her nonbinary child due to the airline’s limited gender options in its booking system.

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