World Travel Awards – the global initiative to recognize and reward excellence in travel and tourism – has unveiled the 2020 winners of its World categories. Winners include Maldives, which cemented its reputation as the definitive secluded sanctuary to win ‘World’s Leading Destination’ for the first time. Portugal also performed strongly, with Madeira voted ‘World’s Leading Island Destination’, Lisbon named ‘World’s …

As part of its efforts to ensure safety and security for the community, Careem distributed smog kits and safety jackets to the Captains in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. In the last few years, smog has been dubbed as the ‘fifth season’ in Pakistan with every year the statistics record an  increase  in the level of pollution in the air beating …

It is beginning to look a lot like the festive season and, Mall of the Emirates and Ski Dubai have announced an incredible programme of festive events to celebrate the holiday season. Guests can experience a world of festive joy at Mall of the Emirates’ festive market from 26 November – 24 December and a white holiday at Ski Dubai’s Winter Wonderland from …

DUBAI: The first scheduled commercial flight operated by flydubai from Dubai International (DXB) landed at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) on Thursday 26 November at 11:35 to a water salute.  The inaugural flight was flown by Captain Patrick Gonzenbach and Emirati First Officer, Abdulla Al Shamsi. On board the aircraft was a delegation led by Ghaith Al Ghaith, Chief Executive Officer, …

News Desk ABU DHABI: talabat, the leading Middle Eastern food-delivery platform has officially opened its very-first Cloud Kitchen in Abu Dhabi. Spearheaded in conjunction with the Cloud Kitchen team at Delivery Hero, talabat’s German parent company,  the latest venture in the MENA region is set to create opportunities for upcoming F&B concepts to see further growth in talabat-operating markets, servicing …

News Desk DUBAI: Emirates is re-opening its lounges around the world beginning with the Emirates lounge in Cairo International Airport. In the coming weeks, Emirates’ customers can look forward to once again enjoying Emirates lounge services in other destinations including New York’s JFK International and Manchester Airport. The airline has redesigned its lounge offering and introduced additional health and safety …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has started its countdown to be the title sponsor of the most important sporting event in the Kingdom – the FORMULA 1 ®️ GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2020, which will take place between 27-29 November. In response to directives issued by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad …

DUBAI / LONDON: dnata, one of the world’s leading air services providers, has further enhanced its global operations by launching a dedicated inflight retail centre of excellence.  The new specialist retail unit will deliver tailor-made on-board retail programmes and innovative solutions for airline customers, supporting them to maximise on-board ancillary revenue and enhance passenger satisfaction. The addition of a retail-focused …

News Desk DUBAI: Delivering on its customer promise, Emirates has completed an intensive programme to clear its backlog of refund requests which was caused by pandemic-related travel disruption. Over the seven-month period starting April, Emirates received, validated and processed nearly 1.7 million refund requests. This resulted in the airline returning AED 6.3 billion refunds to its customers. Of this sum, …

Swissport International has added Al-Qassim to its growing network in the Middle East. Last week, a first flight of Pakistan International Airlines has been handled successfully at Prince Naïf Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (ELQ) in Central Saudi Arabia. With the handling of a first Pakistan International Airlines flight arriving from Multan, Pakistan, Swissport has added Al-Qassim International Airport, Saudi Arabia, …