Aviation

Aeroflot announces that international service between Moscow and Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Belarus (Minsk) and Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan) will restart over the next week. Regular service between Moscow and South Korea (Seoul) will restart on 1 October.

Flights to the Kyrgyz capital begin on 23 September. Flight SU1882 Moscow-Bishkek will operate once per week, on Wednesdays, and the return flight SU1883 Bishkek-Moscow will operate on Fridays.

While the risk of transmission on an aircraft is low, passengers can take additional precautions to further lower the risk. Following guidance to wear a mask or face covering provides significant protection to all onboard.

GENEVA - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that  proposed new environmental taxes in France will fail to decarbonize the aviation sector and eliminate 150,000 French aviation jobs.

The Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat (CCC) - a citizens’ body created under President Macron – is proposing a series of measures to curb aviation emissions, including an eco-tax on tickets issued in France, to raise 4.2 billion euros annually.  France already imposes some of the heaviest aviation taxes in Europe.

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Flights are operated using Airbus family aircraft, with flight times being 1h30m outbound from Almaty to Tashkent and 55m to Bishkek.

To date, company has refunded over PHP 2.4 billion booking cancellations related to COVID-19, equivalent to 50% of refund requests received.

Innovation is highlighted as vital in the new normal, and the participants in the Stewardship Board Meeting on Shaping the Future of Mobility organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called for the international community to seize the post-COVID recovery as a great opportunity for aviation and other sectors of mobility to build back better.

Pegasus Airlines is launching a new route to Karachi, the capital city of the Sindh Province in Pakistan.

More than 1,000 registered participants and an overflow of more than 200 people in the ICAO TV live were able to learn and become inspired by those solutions throughout the event.

Airbus A350-900 aircraft A7-ALC becomes Qatar Airways’ 100th aircraft to be fitted with high-speed Super Wi-Fi, which has connected millions of passengers since 2018. The airline is rolling out its Super Wi-Fi service across its young fleet of modern, fuel-efficient aircraft.