_A Monitor Report
New York : Philippine Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US court to pursue a lender-backed restructuring plan to help the country's national carrier recover from the pandemic crisis.
The company said that its proposed res...

Dhaka : Indian full-service airline Vistara has announced Vinod Kannan as the airline's next Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective from January 1, 2022.
Vistara's former CEO, Leslie Thng, will return to Singapore Airlines in 2022, as a senior executive.

Dhaka : The government on Thursday gave permission to seven healthcare facilities to set up RT-PCR lab for Covid-19 tests for outbound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
The seven facilities are Stemz Healthcare (BD) Limited, Dhaka; CSBF Health Cent...

Dhaka : The domestic airlines of Bangladesh-now engaged in struggle for survival-due to situation created by Covid-19 pandemic, has demanded reduction of annual surcharge rate from current 72 per cent to 12 per cent.
The Aviation Operators Association of Bangladesh (A...

Tokyo :  Japan Airlines plans to recycle all food and cooking waste from its flights into fertilizer.
JAL Royal Catering, the group leading this initiative, reports that a total of 48 tons of vegetable waste was produced in 2019. From this, only 7.7 per cent was ...

Dhaka : Singapore Airlines has announced the appointment of Timothy Ouyang as its new General Manager for Bangladesh effective from September 2021. 
Prior to his posting to Dhaka, Ouyang headed SIA's operations in Bali, Indonesia over the past three and a hal...

Dhaka : Did you know that each airline has the ability to determine not just if a face mask must be worn but also what kind of face mask must be worn when onboard a flight?
More and more airlines are starting to ban face masks made out of fabric, citing that they are ...

Dhaka : With exponential growth, the new talk of the town among the country's online travel agencies, Tryotel expects to witness 500 per cent revenue growth by next year, said Yami M Saleh, Managing Director of Saimon Global, who has launched the OTA.
Saimon Globa...

Longford : Amadeus touchless bag drop technology is being trialled at Heathrow. The system uses proximity sensors to allow passengers to check-in their luggage without touching the screens on the kiosks.
The new contactless experience has initially been installed on s...

New York : Travelport is aiming to solve some of the biggest challenges in travel retailing. The new global accelerator programme in partnership with Ama-zon Web Services will start off by tackling digital marketing solutions that personalise targeted offers to customers usi...