Tag: COVID-19
Iberia Business post-COVID, Madrid Barajas – Paris Orly, Airbus A321: When will the meal return?
After a fast passage through the Plaza Mayor lounge, we head for our boarding gate to Orly.
Reminder of our itinerary:
Boarding
We arrive at the gate 10 minutes after the start of boarding, which doesn't turn out to be very fast....
Skyteam helps you find a COVID test center
Getting tested for COVID isn't all that complicated...especially when you're in your own country. Abroad, it can be more complicated, as not everyone is organized in the same way.
In partnership with TrustAssure, Skyteam now offers a search tool...
Health passport: a mess in the making!
The health passport will be the key to the resumption of travel. Things are gradually getting settled, but in a confused way that suggests a chaotic summer to say the least. By trying too hard to play their own...
Singapore airport creates “business bubble” despite border closure
It's hard to live with closed borders and quarantine and distancing measures when you're a business destination like Singapore, a place where people go to meet.
Remote communication tools aren't everything, and there are times when it's vital for people...
Are loyalty programs heading for a crash?
You are a member of a frequent flyer program (or hotel program for that matter) and you have a credit card that allows you to earn points/miles on this program. On the face of it, you're happy with this...
Qatar Airways launches the 1st contactless IFE!
The pandemic offers excellent opportunities for airlines to innovate, for better or for worse. While some took advantage of the situation to offer an unjustified deterioration in service "under the pretext of COVID", others took the opportunity to offer...
Air France digitalizes health test follow-up with AOKPass
Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, travel-related formalities have been changing regularly. The presentation of a negative COVID test is now mandatory for most international trips, and checking these tests, often presented in paper format, is time-consuming.
To enhance...
Ryanair gets slammed for optimistic vaccine ad
Tomorrow we'll all be vaccinated and free to travel as we please? It's what many would like, and a dream that Ryanair has capitalized on in a recent advertising campaign called "Jab an go!
But it wasn't to everyone's...
Orly-Pointe-à-pitre: the 4th busiest air route in the world!
The impact of the health crisis on air transport has been dramatic, but for want of a better word, we can also poke fun at some of the unrealistic situations it has caused, shuffling the cards as borders open...