Airline executives faced the Senate on Wednesday (Dec. 15) on issues surrounding travel recovery and the effect of aid, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes. Lawmakers have been looking at the $54 billion carriers got in federal grants, which made it so they couldn’t furlough...
Hotel booking cancellations are on the rise due to concerns over the most recent spate in COVID-19 restrictions alongside the arrival of the Omicron variant, Reuters reported Tuesday (Dec. 14). Online travel search company Trivago said cancellation rates had increased to 35% since November, with...
Norway is looking at heightened COVID restrictions and vaccine efforts to combat the new omicron variant, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said on Monday (Dec. 13), Reuters reports. “There is no doubt — the new variant changes the rules. That’s why we need to act fast...
The World Health Organization sounded a hopeful-yet-cautious note this week on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to published reports, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “certain features of omicron, including its global spread and large number of mutations, suggest it could...
It’s Omicron’s turn to capsize buoyant predictions and plans of recent months — or is it? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first cases of the new variant in the U.S. in the first week of December. Some are holding their...
Job growth slowed in November, posting the smallest increase this year with 210,000 jobs added after October’s upwardly revised 546,000 new positions, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday (Dec. 3). The unemployment rate dropped 0.4% to 4.2%, and the labor force participation rate...
The U.S. is moving to restrict travel from several African countries, including all of South Africa, to try and curb the spread of the recently-discovered omicron variant of the coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. The Biden administration plans to restrict non-U.S. citizens from...
Europe’s shaky economic recovery could be derailed by a rise in new COVID-19 cases, which has led governments to place restrictions that could turn shoppers and tourists away. As The New York Times reported Tuesday (Nov. 23), some of those toughest restrictions have come from...
Protests are erupting across Europe as renewed COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns are implemented amid escalating cases of the virus. Austria, in its fourth national lockdown, has become the first European country to introduce compulsory vaccinations, according to multiple media reports. Demonstrations voicing opposition to the...
