TATS TATS figures March revenues show a thin silver lining on the horizon At least partly good news as regards travel sales: For the first time in a whole year, airline ticket revenues in German travel agencies in March ...more by Holger Jacobs – Monday, April 12, 2021
Pixabay Travel bashing Majorca bookings slump after government criticism According to market researchers Travel Data + Analytics (TDA), bookings for Majorca have dropped dramatically over the last few weeks according to new figures after top politicians criticised Germans for flying to the Spanish island for Easter holidays. ...more by Paul Needham – Thursday, April 08, 2021
FVW Medien/KH Virtual trade show end of April Next Counter Days will be even larger After the successful premiere in February, fvw | TravelTalk Counter Days enter the next stage. The trade show offers the opportunity to tourism sales staff and other travel professionals to get hands-on information on the re-start in summer and to network. ...more by Holger Jacobs – Thursday, April 08, 2021
Alan Wilson Non-core business DER Touristik sells off its carrier Novair DER Touristik Group is disposing of its small Scandinavian airline Novair in an asset sale deal to streamline its European portfolio and focus on core business. The German group is selling the Scandinavian carrier to the Jet Nordic Group for an undisclosed sum. ...more by Paul Needham – Thursday, April 08, 2021
Flughafen München Due to Covid-19 pandemic Munich Airport suffers triple-digit million loss Despite Munich Airport introducing countermeasures straight away, according to provisional calculations the global coronavirus pandemic and its serious consequences for tourist travel resulted in a nine-figure loss for the airport in 2020. ...more by Holger Jacobs – Wednesday, April 07, 2021
FVW Medien/HMJ Digital Green Certificate Privacy watchdogs set high standards for certificates Plans by European Union countries to issue certificates showing that citizens have been vaccinated against Covid-19 should have a legal basis to ensure that they are necessary and proportionate, the bloc's privacy watchdogs said on Tuesday. ...more by Reuters – Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Negative test mandatory Germany puts Netherlands on its high risk list Germany's Robert Koch Institute said on Sunday it was designating the Netherlands an area of particularly high risk of coronavirus infection due to a high number of cases in the country. ...more by Holger Jacobs – Monday, April 05, 2021
Imago Images Lockdown-hit travel companies German government agrees additional aid for businesses The German government has agreed to make available further financial aid for companies hit by lockdown measures during the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and finance ministries said in a joint statement on Thursday. ...more by Reuters – Friday, April 02, 2021
Lufthansa Tests before departure Lufthansa offers health data app on U.S. flights Lufthansa introduces a new offer for travel to the U.S.: Passengers who have had a Covid-19 test done at Lufthansa partner Centogene before departure can now conveniently receive their test results in the internationally recognized app Common Pass ...more by Holger Jacobs – Thursday, April 01, 2021
FVW Medien/HMJ Hotel reservations DER Touristik already looks to next winter Germany’s second-largest tour operator has started to take bookings for next winter amid continuing uncertainty about prospects for summer holidays this year. DER Touristik is offering a lot of discounts for early bookers. ...more by Paul Needham – Thursday, April 01, 2021
Holidaycheck Scenario planning Holidaycheck keeps options open after 2020 slump German-based Holidaycheck Group suffered a massive financial slump last year due to the impact of the coronavirus on travel demand and is now working with two different scenarios rather than precise forecasts for 2021. ...more by Paul Needham – Thursday, April 01, 2021
Getty Images Testing centres at airport and hotels Majorca ramps up testing to meet German travel rules Majorca is scrambling to meet Germany's new requirement that its citizens on holiday there test negative for coronavirus before their return home, opening testing centres at the airport and in large hotels, and boosting lab capacity. ...more by Reuters – Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Privat Summer business Politicians at odds when holidays are possible again Summer holidays and visits to restaurants to be possible from the end of June, supported by the mass rollout of vaccines against the coronavirus, German Deputy Economy Minister Thomas Bareiss told a German newspaper. ...more by Reuters – Monday, March 29, 2021
Imago Images Tighter travel regulations Germany to require negative test from all air travellers A requirement for all airline passengers entering Germany to provide a negative coronavirus test result before departure will come into force on Monday, German Health Minister Jens Spahn told a news conference on Friday. ...more by Reuters – Saturday, March 27, 2021
Montage: Condor/Lufthansa Surprising move Lufthansa budges in flight tussle with Condor German carrier Lufthansa is reconsidering its decision to cancel an agreement that allows passengers of smaller rival Condor to use Lufthansa feeder flights as part of their journey to holiday destinations, a spokesman for the company said. ...more by Reuters – Saturday, March 27, 2021
Imago In bet on travel recovery Ryanair plans 2,500 Spanish flights a week Ryanair is planning 2,500 flights a week to, from, and across Spain this summer as it bets on a surge in demand for holidays even as infections rise across much of Europe. The low-cost carrier expects a pick up in the pace of Europe's vaccination campaign. ...more by Reuters – Thursday, March 25, 2021
TUI Due to slow recovery TUI cuts summer capacity to 75% from 80% TUI expects holidaymakers to show considerable pent-up demand in the summer season. But the largest European leisure travel group touched the brakes on the peak travel season, lowering its planned capacity for July onwards from 80% to 75% of 2019's level. ...more by Holger Jacobs – Thursday, March 25, 2021
Jan Greune Booking trends FTI hopes for 50% of 2019 revenues Germany’s third-largest tour operator is cautiously optimistic about 2021 and hopes a mix of vaccinations and corona tests will encourage consumers to travel this year. The winter 2020/21 season also went better than initially expected. ...more by Paul Needham – Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Eurowings fvw | Travel Talk interview Eurowings CEO aims to fly out of crisis Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings plans to relaunch most of its flights this summer to take advantage of a ‘tourism catch-up’ effect as international travel gradually becomes possible again, CEO Jens Bischof told fvw | Travel Talk in an interview. ...more by Paul Needham – Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Imago Images / Photothek Apology for added uncertainty Chancellor Merkel ditches stricter Easter lockdown Chancellor Angela Merkel ditched a plan agreed on Tuesday for an extended Easter holiday to try to break a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, apologising to lockdown-weary Germans after the hastily-conceived plan triggered a backlash. ...more by Reuters – Wednesday, March 24, 2021
