Welcome to our Monday Morning Update on April 19th, 2021.

Monday Morning Update is where we share the latest news from the industry and we also have a central theme which we cover in more details in each episode.

Today our news update is about Plaza Premium lounges that drops Priority Pass,  Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker, Calls British Airways “Two Out Of Ten” Low Cost Carrier, Countries are in need of tourists and creates deals to look for. Some examples are Malta that will pay you money to visit them and Maldives will give you a free vaccine on arrival. Lastly good news that the new airport hotel i Copenhagen Airport, Comfort Hotel Copenhagen Airport, will open up at May 6th.

In our deep dive history, we have talked to Ulrik Gylstorff from Thai Airways and he shares how he have seen the last year with COVID-19 in a front row seat along with the enormous reconstruction that Thai Airways are currently in the middle of. Ulrik also shares when he and Thai Airways expected leisure and business travellers to return again.

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Airlines

• 2:29 - LCC SpiceJet joins the crowd of airlines entering LHR from BOM and DEL
• 7:55 - Qatar announces flights to SFO. Finally
• 12:54 - Could South African Airways be pronounced Ethiopian Airlines?

Aircraft 

• 17:50 - Airbus announces an ACJ version of its A220 aircraft

Update

• 21:56 - More information on Thai International’s alternate revenue streams
• 26:18 - Ethiopian is the latest carrier to offer free COVID travel insurance to its passengers

Other

• 29:38 - A standardized system to overcome national restrictions in COVID times?  And instill confidence in would-be travellers to kickstart demand?  Perhaps
• 39:00 - After the regional success of flights to nowhere, the country of Singapore ponders cruises to, you guessed it, nowhere

Question

• 44:36 - What becomes of these newish planes?  Are they scrapped for metal, etc?  What about old ones?

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Episode 36

In this episode:

Airlines

• Delta further trims its fleet with retirements of 3 additional aircraft types
• Hawaiian ups the ante in COVID testing for Hawaii-bound passengers
• United gets very creative in enticing more leisure traffic on its flights

Updates

• Canada’s Westjet updates its COVID insurance coverage
• Lufthansa confirms a longstanding rumor about its fleet standardization
• Lufthansa offers an additional COVID testing protocol and close partner United quickly -and in a limited way - follows suit
• Eurowings joins the growing club of carriers offering free COVID insurance
• Thai International tries even more inspired alternative revenue streams

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In this episode:

• China Airlines re-brands
• American carries post 2Q losses
• Emirates insuring flyers
• Lithuania is getting a flag carrier
• Ethiopian Airlines 77F catches fire
• Air Arabia AUH starts service
• Icelandair rescinds order to ditch flight attendants
• Qantas Boeing 747-400's unique farewell
• JetSmart steps into Peru
• OWG announces the start of their scheduled flights
• Thai Airways postpones operations to September and angers their employees

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#3-Lars & Johannes nehmen dich heute mit auf eine Reise nach Thailand. Jede gelungene Reise beginnt mit der Wahl der richtigen Airline und des jeweiligen Produktes. Lohnt sich dabei die Lufthansa oder Thai Airways für den Direktflug oder ist die Direktverbindung von Eurowings ein guter Tipp? Welche Airline lohnt sich am Besten, wenn es etwas günstiger sein soll und ein Zwischenstopp kein Problem darstellt? Nachdem wir in Thailand gelandet sind, gilt es für den besten Preis das beste Hotel zu finden. Hilton & Hyatt haben dabei das perfekte Produkt für jedermann. Zuletzt teilen die beiden Reise-Experten noch ihre privaten Geheimtipps im Bezug auf Massagen, Anzüge & Urlaubspradise. Steig ein & spüre schon jetzt den Fler von Thailand! 

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