Kosovo suspends all commercial flights

GLOBAL AVIATION NEWS

Qantas resumes international flights

Emotions were high on Monday as excited passengers set off on the first flights between Australia and New Zealand as part of a quarantine-free Covid-19 “travel bubble”, allowing families long separated by the pandemic to reunite and enabling Australia’s Qantas to restore scheduled international flights after more than a year. “(I’ll) yell, scream cry, hug, kiss, (feel) happy - all of these emotions at once”, Denise O’Donoghue, 63, said at Sydney Airport as she prepared to board her flight. The arrangement means passengers can make the three-hour flight across the Tasman Sea without having to complete a mandatory Covid-19 quarantine when they arrive. Television footage showed emotional scenes at the airports with families reuniting and hundreds of passengers thronging the international departure terminals at Australian airports. “It is the first time in 400 days that people can travel quarantine-free and we are adding 16 return flights a day to New Zealand, and they are full”, Qantas Chief Executive, Alan Joyce, said. Qantas will increase flights between the countries to about 200 each week, while Air New Zealand said it had quadrupled its flights to 30 on Monday, with its airplanes flying into New Zealand at 97% capacity. “It is truly exciting to start quarantine-free travel with Australia. Be it returning family, friends or holiday-makers, New Zealand says: ‘Welcome and enjoy yourself’”, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said. Australia was New Zealand’s largest source of international tourists before the pandemic, accounting for about 1.5 million arrivals or 40% of total visitors in 2019. The border opening received saturation coverage from media in both countries, with live television reporting from airports providing regular updates on the progress of flights. On a grass embankment at the foot of Wellington Airport’s runway, the words “Welcome Whanau” (family) were spelled out in giant letters. More than half a million New Zealand-born people live in Australia, just more than 2% of Australia’s population of nearly 26 million.
Source: Al Jazeera

Kosovo suspends all commercial flights

NEWS FLASH

The government of Kosovo will suspend all commercial flights to and from Pristina Airport until further notice in an attempt to curb the outbreak of the coronavirus Covid-19. The measure will come into effect on March 16 at midnight. It excludes medical evacuation and military flights.

Comments

azdren11:10
wow !!
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous12:36
Absolutely the right move to contain this evil mess...
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous16:32
I totally support them
ReplyDelete
Replies
Unknown19:09
excellent job
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous21:06
GM will perform multiple daily fligts to ZRH and BSL in the next few days.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Visit Kosovo21:25
Public health above commercial/corporate interests, as it should be.

I hope ordinary citizens support authorities in ensuring our most vulnerable citizens are protected.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous00:11
It's germany only anyways
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous00:56
respect from macedonia we should all follow their lead on this one
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous21:49
LJU is next to close down: Uradni govorec vladnega kriznega štaba za spopadanje z novim koronavirusom Jelko Kacin je ob robu današnjega sestanka z direktorji bolnišnic napovedal, da se bo s torkom ustavil tudi letalski promet. Zatrdil je, da bodo storili vse za zajezitev virusa, ki se hitro širi. Opozarja, da je zadnji trenutek, da se začnemo odgovorno obnašati.

Omejitev za letalski promet bodo sicer uveljavili dan pozneje kot za siceršnji javni promet, da se lahko nekatera letala še vrnejo domov. Po besedah Jelka Kacina si prizadevajo oz. iščejo možnosti, da bi reševali posamezne državljane, če bi bilo treba, da jih gredo kam iskati.

Tudi če ste letalsko vozovnico že kupili, ostanite doma
To vnaprej najavljajo zato, da bi vsem tistim, ki razmišljajo o tem, da bi izkoristili že plačane vozovnice, dopovedali, naj tega ne počno, ker se ne bodo mogli vrniti v Slovenijo, je pojasnil. Ob tem je opozoril, da bodo vse države okoli Slovenije zaprle zračni prostor v nekaj dneh.

Že v ponedeljek pa se bo ohromilo javno življenje v Sloveniji, med drugim se zaustavlja potniški promet. Za nujne vožnje bodo ostali taksiji. "Čim bolj se moramo zavezati, da se bomo sami osamili in da se tako virus zajezi," je dejal Kacin.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Search This Site

Kosovo suspends all commercial flights

Comments

Post a comment