ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways has extended its “Verified To Fly” travel document initiative, enabling travellers to validate their Covid-19 travel documents before arriving at the airport, to routes across its global network. To use the service – which is available for the vast majority of Etihad flights – passengers sign-up by visiting “Manage my Booking” and following the ...

MOSCOW / WAM Dr Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to the Russian Federation, has met with Hassan Hakimov, Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, and Adam Cherchigov, Director-General of the Sheikh Zayed Foundation, at the UAE Embassy in Moscow. During the meeting, the sides discussed the strong bilateral ties between their countries and ways of strengthening them to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, (Seha) announced the opening of a new Covid-19 drive-through services center in Al Manhal area in Abu Dhabi. The new center is composed of 4 tracks; 1 for vaccination and 3 for nose swab with a capacity of 100 vaccinations and 600 nose swabs and laser tests per day. The center ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM To support the growth of the environmental goods and services (EGS) sector, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) is leading a project that aims to assess the state of play in the local EGS industry. The EGS Project will define and map the sector, assess its overall economic value, and develop actionable enabling policies ...

SHARJAH / WAM Kalimat Foundation, a UAE-based global non-profit organisation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK-based charity, Book Aid International (BAI), under which both entities will partner to support and enrich the learning resources of refugees and forcibly displaced children in Africa and the Middle East (ME). The agreement formalising the partnership was signed recently, on the sidelines ...

The list of what e-commerce platforms aren’t allowed to do in India has been growing for some time, but the latest prohibition on flash sales has simply gone too far. If the rules get implemented, the entire business model of Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc could come unstuck before their investments in a market of 1.4 billion people can grow ...

The customer is always right but up until recently, it felt like that old adage didn’t apply to the airline industry. Customers were packed in like sardines in increasingly tighter rows of seats and battled with each other for precious overhead bin space amid rising baggage fees. Slowly but surely, that’s starting to change. United Airlines Holdings Inc announced a ...

UK house price rises have reached a 17-year high, according to the June Nationwide survey citing 13.4% annual growth. Statistically, this pace looks unsustainable, as prices for the rest of the year will be compared with the swiftly rising prices of the second half of 2020. Those base comparison effects will probably show the annual rate of change topping out. ...

Big Tech got some good news when a US district judge dismissed two antitrust cases brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of states. Curiously, the ruling may also be greeted as good news by the Enemies of Big Tech, who say that existing law is not up to the task of prosecuting monopolies and ...

Bloomberg Airlines follow a pretty simple formula for success — fill as many seats and fly as many hours as possible, and keep a young fleet. One Indian budget carrier is going another way to drum up income — not flying. SpiceJet Ltd hasn’t flown any of its Boeing Co 737 Max jets for more than 27 months, after two ...