The river cruise captain of Viking Sigyn was sentenced to more than five years of prison for his role in the death of 26 South Korean tourists. He was ruled negligent after the ship collided with a smaller Danube cruise boat in 2019.
Delta Air Lines passengers who have long enjoyed access to free meals, alcohol, and a quiet place to relax before their flight are in for some major cutbacks in coming years.
An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city’s Palatine Hill that offers sweeping views of the Roman Forum below has reopened to tourists, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city’s Imperial period.
A female American Airlines flight attendant has been found dead with a sock in her mouth in a hotel room near Philadelphia’s Airport, according to ABC News’ Philadelphia station WPVI. She was supposed to have checked out two days earlier.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced the appointment of Noor Ahmad Hamid as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective Oct. 1. Noor’s appointment for a three-year term will usher in a new era for PATA as the influential industry association dedicates itself to promoting responsible travel and tourism within the Pacific Asia region.
The new Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park is dedicated to “discovering, recruiting, and training the next generation of superheroes.” It’s a hero training complex where guests can team up with family and friends – and the Avengers – to take on whatever the universe throws at them, and a place to live out one’s superhero dreams.
Today (Sept. 27) is World Tourism Day 2023 with the global sector to coming together around the theme of Tourism and Green Investments. “Tourism has never been more important for our economies or for our societies,” says UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili. “Its potential is enormous. And so, on this World Tourism Day, we celebrate tourism’s ability to drive growth while also highlighting the vital need for investments to ensure such growth is inclusive and sustainable.”
Nav Canada is proposing to reduce customer service charges by close to 6 percent, which would claw back some of an almost 30 percent hike implemented on Sept. 1, 2020, during the pandemic when global air traffic was significantly reduced.
Making news this week is a Costa Rican FAM for Quebec agents, Ensemble teaming up with Jamaica, Flight Centre helping wishes come true, and top marks for The Travel Agent Next Door from Air Canada Vacations. Costa Rica Eighteen travel advisors from Quebec recently experienced an all-encompassing Costa Rica FAM trip, highlighting the country’s Central
With its recent addition to the Blue Diamond Resorts portfolio, Royalton CHIC Antigua is set to debut in early April 2024. Designed exclusively for fun-seeking adults, the beachfront resort is set on the northwest coast of Antigua and is now available for bookings.
With Sept. 27 marking World Tourism Day, and this year focussing on spreading awareness about the importance of tourism and its impact on our society, CheapOair.ca is sharing some of its favourite Old World countries that are walking the walk when it comes to embracing sustainability and environmental measures.
Eight people have been hospitalized after a JetBlue flight experienced severe turbulence as it landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Monday. JetBlue flight 1256 was flying into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from Guayaquil, Ecuador when it suddenly experienced turbulence, the company said in a statement.
Air Canada says it has placed a firm order for 18 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft that will be used to replace older, less efficient wide-body aircraft in its fleet. The agreement also includes options for an additional 12 Boeing 787-10 aircraft.
The union representing 11,000 Canadian pilots says a newly streamlined immigration program that looks to fill job gaps in transport fails to cut to the core of a dire labour shortage in aviation. Tim Perry, president of the Air Line Pilots Association’s Canadian chapter, says recent changes to the country’s Express Entry system may offer a temporary fix but still amount to what he calls a “Band-Aid solution” to the lack of flight crews.
While Canadians are already buying into Arajet’s message of convenient connections to the Caribbean and South and Central America through its Santo Domingo hub, the low-fare airline’s founder and CEO believes sunseekers in this country will also find the soon-to-launch Toronto and Montreal service ideal for transit to the Dominican Republic directly, whether as final destination or for two-island holidays in the Caribbean.
Transat Distribution Canada (TDC) recently welcomed travel advisors from its franchised, affiliated corporate branches and agent@home program to the network’s annual 2023 conference. Held at the Sheraton Toronto Airport hotel Sept. 16-17, the event was themed “Ride the Wave: Surf the Tides of Success.”
Edmonton International Airport (YEG) will be completing infrastructure upgrades to the Departures Roadway on Level Two starting today (Sept. 26), which will close the elevated roadway and require relocation of the passenger pick-up and drop-off areas. During the construction period, the Departures Roadway adjacent to the terminal will be temporarily closed to all traffic.
Club Med fans will soon be able to add an African safari experience to the all-inclusive resort chain’s traditional beach and ski offerings at Club Med Tinley. Projected to open in 2026, the resort will be Club Med’s first in South Africa.
Canada has another UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tr’ondëk-Klondike, located in the homeland of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in in the Yukon, was inscribed on the prestigious United Nations list at the recent 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Saudi Arabia. It is the 22nd site in this country to earn the designation since Canada joined the World Heritage Convention in 1976.
Toronto and Montreal airports were near the bottom in the race for passenger satisfaction this year, according to a study by J.D. Power. The study ranks Toronto Pearson Airport second from the bottom (19th of 20) in the category for the largest airports that see more than 33 million passengers per year.
From US travel dominance to the effects of the global heatwave, a leading travel analytics firm has identified five major travel trends in global air travel this summer – revealed by an analysis of the top destinations and top origin markets compared to last year and to pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Air Canada Vacations had agents dancing in their seats, literally, as the tour operator concluded its five-city Canadian road show/sun launch spectacle in Toronto last week, following “Dream Bigger” events in Halifax, Vancouver, Edmonton (for the first time), and Montreal.
A familiar favourite and a “best kept secret” are among new WestJet destinations from Western Canada this winter as the carrier introduces flights to Las Vegas from Victoria, BC, and Loreto, Mexico, from Calgary – the former reintroducing WestJet’s first transborder connection from Vancouver Island since 2017.
Air Transat is looking ahead to its next generation of pilots with the launch of a new cadet training program that will enable the airline to build a pipeline of qualified pilots, with applications being accepted now for training beginning in February 2024.
Long-anticipated passenger rail service between Orlando and Miami was inaugurated Friday (Sept. 22) with the arrival of ‘Bright Pink,’ the first Brightline train, in the central Florida city. The inaugural service is the first privately funded passenger rail service over a century.
India suspended visa services in Canada last week due to a tensions between the countries; other round-up highlights include air passenger complaints in Canada hitting a peak, WestJet and Air France’s expanded codeshare partnership, Porter Toronto-Victoria service taking flight, and ACTA giving the thumbs down to the terms of government CEBA loan forgiveness for small businesses.
India’s visa processing centre in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Parliament on Monday that there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of Sikh independence activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down in June outside the temple he led in suburban Vancouver.
VisitBritain hosted a reception for media and travel partners at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during last week’s Toronto International Film Festival. The pairing of Visit Britain and the film festival was an ideal opportunity to showcase Britain with “an awesome program, the biggest ever, with 24 productions or co-productions from the UK” said British Consul General to Toronto, Fouzia Younis.
When we say we love Italy it’s because of the way Italy and Italians make us feel when we visit. Italy punches way above its cultural weight class – good food, the Mediterranean climate, opera, the visual arts, supercar capital of the world, fashion, warm and friendly people.
The nominees for Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2023 have been unveiled by Air Canada, with 30 entries spanning 15 cities from coast-to-coast, in the running for the Top 10 announcement on Nov. 1. The list showcases the best of new Canadian cuisines and features a new group of restaurants in the longest-running Canadian restaurant awards.