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The U.S. airline has announced that it's set to operate 25,000 flights in August, including those to over 50 additional resumed domestic routes; this will account for 48% of its 2019 domestic capacity in the same month. Although most services will operate from mid-continent hubs in Chicago, Denver and Houston, the airline will also double its daily flight count from New York's Newark. This will place around 90 aircraft back in service and facilitate more flights to mountain destinations such as Aspen, Colorado and Bozeman, Montana.

Airlink have announced that it will expand its flights on domestic South African routes to other inland and coastal cities from 6 July. Among the additional services are flights to Bloemfontein, Nelspruit, Upington and Pietermaritzburg.

The country resumed international flights and re-opened major tourist attractions including the Great Pyramids of Giza on 1 July after over three months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic; on the first day of re-opening, 16 flights took off from Cairo International Airport.

Qatar's government have confirmed that they aim to further ease COVID-19 curbs from 1 July, allowing the limited reopening of restaurants, beaches and parks, as infections have passed their peak and the rate is reportedly subsiding. Public and private gatherings of a maximum of five people will be allowed, while employees in the public and private sector can work from their office at 50% capacity.

British Airways have announced that from 3 July they will operate three direct flights per week from Tokyo Haneda Airport to the UK's London Heathrow Airport. Airlines already operating or resuming direct services between these airports include Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways. Until the end of July, all passengers arriving in Japan may be required to take a PCR test for COVID-19, and all must self-isolate for 14 days; passengers arriving in the UK must also self-isolate for 14 days.

As communicated by CVS, effective from 7 July 2020, passengers traveling as tourists arriving at Dubai (DXB) must have mandatory documents in their possession. These include: Health declaration form, Quarantine undertaking form, Copy of PCR test issued 96 HRS before date of departure & Health insurance valid for the duration of the visa validity.

The airline has said that it has started consultations on plans to close operating hubs at London Stansted, London Southend and Newcastle international airports; this follows a previous announcement that it may need to reduce staff numbers by up to a third because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abu Dhabi’s local government media office announced yesterday that the emirate will now allow people to enter if they have tested negative for COVID-19 in the previous 48 hours. The largest and wealthiest member of the United Arab Emirates federation, Abu Dhabi has had a ban on passengers entering since 2 June.

Dubai-based airline Emirates has announced that it will resume the operation of passenger flights from Sudan's capital Khartoum, on selected dates during July. More information can be found on the airline's website.

Egypt's national airline is resuming its flight operations in July with 29 destinations routes in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. Operations during the first week of July will begin with 13 cities in Europe, with other routes to be added in the following weeks.

The Dubai-based airline has said that it will now resume passenger flights to over 50 cities in July, after announced the re-starting of additional services; flights will resume to Cairo, Egypt (from 1 July), Tunis, Tunisia (from 1 July), Glasgow, United Kingdom (from 15 July) and Malé, Maldives (from 16 July).

The country's national airline is set to resume flights between Addis Ababa Bole International Airport and Manchester Airport from 2 July, operating three services per week departing on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Ethiopian Airlines are currently also offering seven flights per week from Addis Ababa to London Heathrow Airport, as well as routes to other European cities.

The country's minister of transport has today announced the resumption of further civil aviation activities - as of 1 July 2020, the following domestic airports will re-open: Bram Fischer International Airport, Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, Pietermaritzburg Airport, Port Elizabeth International Airport, Richardsbay Airport, Skukuza Airport and Upington International Airport. Previously, domestic travel from international airports serving Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban had been allowed to resume. International travel remains prohibited and South Africa's borders remain closed until further notice, with the exception of repatriation flights.

The airline has announced that from 1 July it will begin to book flights at full capacity, in comparison to their cap of around 85% in previous months. The existing policy is already seen as a much less strict cap than competitors such as Delta Air Lines, who are booking to 60% capacity and blocking all middle seats. The move by American Airlines is seen as a sign that social distancing precautions will no longer be a priority - however the airline is reportedly due to still continue a policy which allows customers to change their flight at no extra cost if it's likely to be full.

The airline has announced that by August they will resume flights to more than 60 routes with 600 weekly services; they recently resumed flights to some European destinations, Brazil and the U.S.

A trade group representing most U.S. airlines has reportedly said that its members will refund passengers who fail mandatory temperature checks. Although such checks are not yet required nationally, they’re currently being trialed at Los Angeles International Airport. Members of the group, Airlines for America, include United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines.

In an update to previous announcements about the resumption of flight routes via a special Abu Dhabi transit service, Etihad has confirmed that they will connect passengers to a total of 13 European destinations from early July. Destination cities include Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Zurich. They hope to increase their network even further from 16 July and are working closely alongside the UAE authorities to do so.

The Dubai-based airline is set to resume flights to London Heathrow and Paris using their highly popular, flagship Airbus A380 from 15 July - hailed as the world's largest and most spacious passenger aircraft. The move will mark the first time that the airline has returned the aircraft to scheduled services since the pandemic forced the grounding of their passenger fleet in March.

Turkey's national airline is continuing to resume flights to an increasing number of North American destinations, after our previous bulletin on services resuming to Chicago, Washington and Miami this past weekend. Flights to Los Angeles will start tomorrow, 25 June; New York and Toronto will follow on 1 July; San Francisco, Montreal and Houston are currently set to follow later in July.

The Dubai-based airline will continue to operate a number of repatriation flights scheduled from 24-30 June, which are set to continue assisting Pakistani nationals to return home from the UAE. This is despite the announcement last night that regular passenger services from Pakistan's Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore airports have been temporarily suspended, following the news that a number of passengers on a previous flight tested positive for COVID-19.