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This has been an exceptional year. We recently published the 4th edition of the World Civil Aviation Report, a publication that shares the work we have undertaken to address some of the challenges facing civil aviation today . In 2020 ICAO had to contend with the challenges posed to civil aviation by the COVID-19 pandemic, while at the same time carrying out our regular work programme. The spread of infectious diseases along established trade routes has been known since history was first written. The most widely known early pandemic occurred during the Middle Ages (1347) with the arrival in Europe of the bubonic plague (the Black Death) which killed about one-third of the population. It is not surprising that the framers of the Convention on International Civil Aviation had foreseen the possibility that air transport could become a vehicle in the worldwide transmission of communicable diseases. The latest edition of this report opens with a statistical presentation of the impact of

  Two officials within the European Union institutions have confirmed for Reuters that the EU Council will on Monday announce its decision to remove from the list of epidemiologically safe third countries a total of six countries, including the United States. The removal from the list means that the Member States are advised to reimpose the entry ban on travellers from these countries so that the same are no longer eligible to enter restriction-free for non-essential purposes like tourism and business. According to Reuters, the decision on reimposing the entry ban on US travellers has been taken on Friday, August 27, but it will be officially announced only on Monday, August 30. The complete list of the countries affected goes as follows: Israel Kosovo Lebanon Montenegro North Macedonia United States All six have recently reported an increasing number of Coronavirus cases detected within their territory. In the US, which is home to 328.2 million residents, a total of 38,158,

While accommodating millions of passengers in a year, the airport business is touching the heights in recent times. The customer base is increasing, and in turn, the demand for the active passenger management is also rising high. The tourists swarming to their destinations from all over the world are to be served with equal efficiency and responsibility. Hence, needs the proper administration in Passenger Guidance and Control. The task to manage the huge and infuriating crowd requires innovative ways to avoid the feuds and unmanaged lines with the best customer service through various crowd management strategies. The policies, procedures and the products used in crowd management and queue control at airports helps in the orderly movement of people without any unwanted disputes. The inevitable lines can now be made more organized with the help of Q-Managers, India’s No-1 Queue Management Company. The spectrum of crowd control and queuing products under its umbrella include- Belt Pos

ITA, the new airline that rises from the ashes of Alitalia, began its activity this Thursday with the sale of tickets.  It will take off on October 15, just the day after the former flag carrier, Alitalia, founded in 1946 , whose bankruptcy is the result of a serious crisis, which has lasted for a quarter of a century, ceases its activities. , with bad business management and waste of public money. The new public company that replaces Alitalia has activated the website www.itaspa.com , with the sale of tickets for flights from October 15.   For Alitalia customers with purchased tickets, the old company offers a double option: replace the flight with an equivalent flight departing before October 14 or request a full refund of the flight price. Drastic cuts The European Commission has had to approve the viability plan of the new company, having public funds.  ITA will not take off with the wind in its favor, because the union front is very hot.  The transfer of workers from the ol

A seemingly normal flight for Turkish Airlines, from Istanbul to Toronto, turned into a story starring the Turkish cabin crew, who decided this would be their last flight from Turkey. According to the Turkish "Airport Huber" website, which specializes in aviation news, the crew of the Turkish Airlines plane applied for asylum in Canada, upon their arrival there. The website indicated that a number of crew members of the Turkish Airlines plane, which was bound for Canada, left their identity cards and passports in hotel rooms and applied for asylum in this country. Satchkin Kocak, head of the Turkish Airlines Staff Union, made a statement about the incident, saying: "As a national airline, I do not welcome the sudden departure of the team. They should have resigned and left." Kochak stated that the asylum was based on living conditions, and that these people "carry the fears of the new generation." He pointed to the high fragility of Turkey and the un