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Nov

15

2021

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By Troy Warren

Southwest Latest Airline to Offer Holiday Incentive Pay

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RICH THOMASELLI | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel Southwest Airlines is following a page from American Airlines’ playbook in the hopes of avoiding any travel disruptions during the important holiday flying season. Like American, Southwest on Saturday offered flight attendants a series of incentives to work more between Thanksgiving and New Year’s to make up for the shortfalls in staffing that have beset virtually every airline. According to an internal memo seen by CNBC, Southwest is offering flight attendants extra pay and up to 120,000 Rapid Rewards frequent flyer points that could be worth up to $1,400 in flights.…

Nov

14

2021

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Southwest Executive Talks Travel Advisors, Business Travel, COVID-19 Impact

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DONALD WOOD | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel #COVID-19 The airline industry continues to bounce back from the devastation of the coronavirus outbreak, and Southwest Airlines is at the forefront of the travel resurgence. Southwest Business Vice President Dave Harvey recently spoke with TravelPulse about a multitude of topics impacting both the airline and the entire industry, including business travel, COVID-19’s impact on travel advisors and long-term changes implemented during the pandemic. Here is the full Q&A session with Harvey: TravelPulse (TP): Can you name some of the protocols or changes made during the pandemic that the company…

Nov

13

2021

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Lawmakers’ Letter Asks Biden to Mandate COVID Vaccination or Negative Test to Fly

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RICH THOMASELLI | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel A United States Senator and 35 members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to implement a mandate that all domestic airline passengers provide proof of vaccination or a negative test against COVID-19 in order to fly. The letter, dated on Thursday and published into the record on Friday, wants requirements put into place prior to the holiday season that begins in two weeks – but carefully avoids wording whether a mandate would just be for the holidays or would extend beyond that.…

Nov

12

2021

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Passenger who struck flight attendant among 10 fined by FAA for more than $200K

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By Kyle Arnold, The Dallas Morning News (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT #Travel DALLAS — A DFW International Airport passenger was fined $23,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration for reportedly striking an American Airlines flight attendant after becoming upset that her seat didn’t recline. The woman, who was not named, “verbally abused flight attendants after she realized her assigned seat would not recline” and then declined to switch seats with multiple passengers and “kept yelling at flight attendants,” the air safety agency said Wednesday. The altercation took place March 11 on a flight between DFW Airport and Aspen, Colorado.…

Nov

11

2021

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Traveler Confidence Rises With International Travel Surge

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LACEY PFALZ | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel Traveler confidence is on the rise along with the surge in international travel according to the recently released 2021 Fall Global Rescue Traveler Sentiment and Safety Survey, which surveyed 1,500 current and former members of Global Rescue in late October. Compared with January 2021, fear of COVID-19 quarantines or infections while traveling internationally declined by 37 percent in the survey, with 42 percent of travelers having already traveled internationally. The number was even greater for those who’ve traveled domestically, with 86 percent of respondents having traveled within the country during…

Nov

10

2021

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Southwest Airlines Launches Winter Flight Sale With Fares From $39 One-Way

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PATRICK CLARKE | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel Southwest Airlines has launched a three-day sale on winter flights featuring fares from as low as $39 one-way. The discounted seats are available now through Thursday, November 11 at 11:59 p.m. CT and are valid for continental U.S., continental U.S. to/from Hawaii and interisland Hawaii travel between December 1-15, 2021, and January 5 through March 9, 2022. Meanwhile, travel to/from San Juan, Puerto Rico is valid December 1-9, 2021, and January 10 through March 9, 2022, while international travel is available December 1-15, 2021, and January 5 through March 9,…

Nov

09

2021

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Richard Fain to Step Down as CEO of Royal Caribbean Group

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DONALD WOOD | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel #Business The Royal Caribbean Group announced Tuesday that Chief Executive Officer Richard Fain would step down from his role, effective January 3, 2022. Royal Caribbean Chief Financial Officer Jason Liberty will succeed Fain as CEO and join the Board of Directors, while Fain will remain as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Fain spent more than 33 years as CEO of the Royal Caribbean Group, leading the way with innovations he championed involving every aspect of cruising, including revolutionary ship design, major sustainability efforts and more. “Given the great depth and…

Nov

08

2021

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What the United States’ Reopening Means for the Future of Travel

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CODIE LIERMANN | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel The United States’ ban on international travelers from visiting the country has been in place for 18 months, but the long-awaited reopening date has finally arrived, joined by a newfound energy on the outlook of the travel industry. Starting today, November 8, foreign travelers can enter the United States, but they will need to show proof of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-approved vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flights. According to the global search accommodation platform, trivago, travel demand from Europe to the…

Nov

07

2021

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Travel Leaders React to Passage of Infrastructure Bill

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RICH THOMASELLI | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel #Business Not surprisingly, travel leaders are ecstatic this morning after Congress passed a historic $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night. The oft-debated, contentious final vote was approved by a margin of 228-206in the House of Representatives after the Senate had already voted in favor in August, CNN and major media outlets all reported. It is the largest federal government expenditure for infrastructure in history. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act now heads to The White House for President Joe Biden’s signature, which is expected almost immediately. Of the $1.2 trillion,…

Nov

06

2021

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US Travel: Nov. 8 Reopening Is Only a First Step Toward Recovery

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LAURIE BARATTI | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel This coming Monday, November 8, promises to be a game-changer for the U.S. travel industry in the COVID-19 era, as the federal government’s new system for inbound international travel takes effect. In a statement released today, the U.S. Travel Association welcomed the imminent arrival of those new policies, which will allow fully vaccinated travelers to enter the U.S. from global markets that, prior to the pandemic, were highly lucrative for the sector, but whose citizens have been barred from visiting the U.S. for 19 months now. “After nearly two years of restrictions, Monday begins…

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