Authorities in Japan have confirmed the destination will bar entry to visitors from around the world as fears over a new Covid-19 variant grow. The decision comes just weeks after the country softened entry rules, largely in place since the outbreak of the pandemic last spring. “We will ban the new entry of foreigners from…
The Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend all direct passenger flights to the Kingdom of Morocco, for a period of 2 weeks, from Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
Israel is to ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days and use surveillance to halt the spread of the new Covid strain, local media report. The ban is expected to come into effect at midnight on Sunday, following full cabinet approval. Israel has so far confirmed one case of the potentially more infectious…
UK has added ten southern African countries to their red list and will require all arrivals to do a day 2 PCR test and self-isolate until they have got a negative result. The return of the red list comes after the B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant, also known as ‘Omicron’, was detected in South Africa and Botswana.…
Dutch health authorities said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for Covid-19. Around 600 passengers arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on the two KLM flights on Friday and then faced hours of delays and testing due to concerns over the new virus variant. UPDATE…
The United States will restrict travel for non-U.S. citizens from South Africa and seven other countries starting on Monday, part of a global effort to stem the spread of the heavily mutated omicron variant of Covid-19, according to senior Biden administration officials. In addition to South Africa, the affected countries are Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho,…
EU Commission to propose ban on air travel from southern Africa region due to ‘variant of concern’ B.1.1.529. European commission president Ursula von der Leyen says she has recommended EU governments to pull an “emergency brake” stopping all air travel to countries in southern Africa in light of the emergence of the B.1.1.529 coronavirus variant.…
A passenger allegedly made a desperate plea to flight crew after spotting a person engaging in a gross act with her pet cat. A screenshot has gone viral of what looks like a pilot messaging system that suggests a passenger on Delta Air flight DL1360 to Atlanta began breastfeeding her cat and refused to stop…
Kat Kamalani, a former flight attendant from the US, shared two of the most annoying and disgusting things she recalls customers doing while flying on a passenger plane. In a TikTok video, Kat Kamalani tells viewers in a very deadpan voice what cabin crew “love”. The ex-air hostess has recently revealed what you need to…
Jennifer Lawrence did not think she would survive her 2017 air emergency. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar winner, 31, talks about the headline-making flight, while traveling via private plane from Louisville, Ky., to Teterboro, N.J., when one of the engines failed mid-flight at 31,000 feet. As they made an emergency landing…
A Southwest Airlines employee was fatally shot Friday at El Paso International Airport, according to police. Local media reported that police said they discovered the 49-year old victim’s body in a car park at the airport before 10 p.m. His identity has not yet been disclosed. Authorities said they believed the incident occurred during a…
