GD TRAVEL NEWS - Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and International Airlines Group (IAG) have all announced they will submit an expression of interest in acquiring a stake in TAP Air Portugal, following the Portuguese government’s publication of privatisation terms...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Lufthansa is preparing for its centennial celebrations in 2026 with the introduction of a special livery on a new Boeing 787-9. The aircraft was painted in Charleston, USA, and will be delivered to Frankfurt in November before entering service in December.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Poland's second-largest city Krakow is set to have its own metro system. A two-line network is expected to open in 2035. Polish cities are increasingly becoming favourite tourist destinations and the arrival of the new metro will benefit tourists and locals alike.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Hilton is to open new Hampton and Motto hotels in Manchester, England. The city’s first Motto by Hilton hotel will be located close to Manchester Piccadilly station and is set to open in 2027, featuring 154 rooms, a restaurant, bar and fitness space...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - British Airways is to trial cutting hot breakfast offerings on some of its Club Europe routes. The airline will rollout this on certain routes before deciding whether or not to expand this...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Delta Airlines introduces YouTube on its flights as part of it's in-flight offerings. The new partnership brings curated YouTube content to Delta’s seatback screens and personal devices via Delta Sync Wi-Fi, along with a 14-day free preview of YouTube Premium for SkyMiles members.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Ryanair will switch to 100% digital boarding passes from 12 November 2025. From that date, passengers will no longer be able to print paper passes and must instead use the boarding pass generated in the myRyanair app.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Zedwell Capsule Hotel Piccadilly Circus in London has opened. The largest capsule hotel in the world, it features nearly 1,000 windowless capsules with rates starting from £30 per night. The property is situated next to the group’s 728-room flagship Zedwell Hotel Piccadilly Circus.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Travel + Leisure Co. is introducing its Sports Illustrated Resorts brand to Chicago. The hotel will be a conversion of the Virgin Hotel Chicago, located in the city's downtown Loop district and will remain open during construction - completion due in late 2026.

GD TRAVEL BREAKING NEWS - London Gatwick Airport has been given permission to build a second runway by the Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander. The second runway will allow the airport to increase its capacity by an additional 100,000 flights a year.

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GD TRAVEL NEWS 120K - The Park Hyatt Tokyo will reopen on 9 December, with reservations opening on 24 September. The hotel has been closed for renovations since May 2024. An extensive revamp has touched guestrooms, public spaces, event areas and restaurants and bars...

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GD TRAVEL NEWS 120K - A passenger fell seriously ill mid-flight earlier today on Brussels Airlines flight SN3735 from Brussels to Málaga. The plane diverted to Toulouse after crew members attempted resuscitation, but despite emergency efforts the passenger sadly died...

GD TRAVEL NEWS 120K - Aman is developing its first safari resort in Africa: Aman Karingani in Mozambique. The resort will be located in the Karingani Game Reserve, which borders South Africa's Kruger National Park. Thirty standalone pavilions will have one or two bedrooms...

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GD TRAVEL NEWS 120K - Kimpton hotels has opened the 495-room Kimpton Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong. The luxury hotel is in the heart of Hong Kong’s bustling Tsim Sha Tsui with room views of Victoria Harbour, five restaurants and a 20-metre rooftop pool with an accompanying rooftop bar.

GD TRAVEL BREAKING NEWS - A cyber attack has caused delays and cancellations at London Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin airports. The attack has hit check-in and boarding systems at the three airports. This has forced the airports to use manual check-in and boarding procedures.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Ryanair will withdraw three aircraft from Vienna and cancel three routes -Billund, Santander, and Tallinn during the winter 2025 schedule, citing Austria’s €12 air travel tax and rising airport charges, which the airline says make the country uncompetitive.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Iberia is expanding its transatlantic network this winter by introducing a new route to Orlando, Florida, from 26 October 2025 and adding two new services to Brazil - Recife (pictured) (13 December) and Fortaleza (19 December) until March 28, 2026.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - London City Airport is expanding its winter schedule with a new British Airways CityFlyer service to Madrid, operating 11 times weekly from 1 December. The airline will also resume winter flights to Innsbruck, alongside popular ski routes to Geneva and Chambery.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Sir Hotels has debuted in the UK, with the opening of a 81-room property within a restored 17th century textile warehouse in Devonshire Square, located between Spitalfields Market and the City of London. London’s East End.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Enter Air flight E4-7030 from Antalya, Turkey, operated by Air Explore Boeing 737-800 registered OM-FEX and carrying about 190 people, skidded off the runway while landing at Krakow Balice airport on Sunday. Flight operations were suspended for two hours.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Online travel agency Trip.com has launched free and paid for tours of Hong Kong for travellers with a layover at Hong Kong International Airport. The company already offers layover tours in Beijing and Shanghai...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - UK aparthotel brand Native Places plans to open a new property in London and two in Edinburgh in 2026. The new London property is on Margaret Street, close to Oxford Steet, Regent Street and Mayfair. It will offer a mix of 30 apartments and hotel rooms...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Qantas is now accepting bookings for its first Airbus A321XLR aircraft. The first two A321XLRs will take commercial passengers for the first time on Thursday 25 September on Sydney-Melbourne and Sydney-Perth routes, subject to regulatory approval.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - LOT Polish Airlines has collaborated with Michelin-starred chef Bartosz Szymczak to update its business class menu with new dishes available on all long-haul flights departing Warsaw until 31 January 2026...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - KLM has cancelled more than 100 flights on 10 September after ground staff walked out from 8:00 to 10:00 CET. at Schiphol Airport. Affected passengers have been rebooked onto the next available flights, with the airline urging travellers to check updates via My Trip.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Finnair has added three new European destinations to its schedule for summer 2026. The airline will fly twice weekly to Florence from 2 April until 18 October, 2026 and three times per week to Catania on the island of Sicily, from 31 March until 21 October, 2026...

GD TRAVEL BREAKING NEWS - London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 4 has been evacuated as emergency services respond to an incident possibly with hazardous materials. The check-in area has been evacuated. All the other terminals are open as usual.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - The UK Government will be carrying out a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts system on 7 September 2025 at 15:00/3pm. The test alert will be sent to all compatible 4G and 5G mobile phones and compatible tablets across the UK including vistors' compatible devices.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Mandarin Oriental is opening a 128-room hotel in South Korea at the end of the decade, with plans to open a new hotel in Seoul’s Central Business District. The hotel will include a 21st floor restaurant with panoramic city views, plus two restaurants on the 20th floor.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Industrial action has commenced on London Underground by members of The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT)...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - JetBlue is the first airline partner for Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite broadband technology. JetBlue will install the technology on selected aircraft from 2027, to bring faster and more reliable connectivity to its Fly-Fi onboard wifi service.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) will launch the Garner hotels brand in Southeast Asia, with Garner Hotel Pattaya Central set to open on the East coast of Thailand this year. The 153 rooms and suites hotel will be an hour’s drive from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Ruby Hotels will open its second property in Sweden in Q1 of 2028 joining its upcoming Stockholm hotel, which is set to open in 2026. Located in Malmö’s Davidshall district, the new 78-room hotel will be close to the city’s Södergatan shopping street as well as Triangeln station.

GD TRAVEL BREAKING NEWS - At least 15 dead and 18 injured after historic funicular tram derails in Lisbon, Portugal. Emergency workers pulled people from the wreckage after the iconic Gloria tram crashed into a builing on Rua da Gloria.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Delta will launch two new transatlantic routes from Boston next year, with flights to Madrid, Spain and Nice, France. Both services will launch in May 2026, with daily flights to Madrid commencing on 16 May, followed by a thrice-weekly seasonal route to Nice on 17 May.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Qantas will expand its Perth–Rome nonstop service for the 2026 northern summer, extending the operating season by eight weeks (3 May–23 October) and boosting peak-season frequency from three to four flights per week. Almost doubling capacity compared to previous years.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Southwest Airlines has begun operating its newest Boeing 737s with retractable secondary cockpit barriers, designed to protect the flight deck when pilots open the door during flight. Southwest is among the first U.S. carriers to deploy the safety measure.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - airBaltic will expand its network for the summer 2026 season (late March–late October) with six new routes, three resumed destinations, and more flights on nearly 30 existing services from its bases in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - TUIfly Netherlands flight OR1637 from Amsterdam to Gran Canaria was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday after a pregnant passenger required urgent medical care mid-flight...

GD TRAVEL BREAKING NEWS - More than 600 people have been killed and several villages have been destroyed by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. The quake has injured at least 1,500 others too.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - The Danish Transport Authority has temporarily suspended international security screening at Nuuk Airport, forcing passengers to reroute via Kangerlussuaq or Narsarsuaq for screening before continuing abroad, typically to Copenhagen...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Marriott International will debut the Ritz-Carlton hotel brand in Fiji in 2030, with the opening of the 249-key The Ritz-Carlton Fiji, Namuka Bay on the Coral Coast. Occupying a 28-hectare beachfront site, it will be just over an hour’s drive from Nadi International Airport.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Great news for anyone wanting to experience the lesser visited island of Dominica in the Caribbean, as a new international airport is due to open in 2027 with direct flights from the UK for the first time and other European, Caribbean and US airports...

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Korean Air will purchase 103 next-generation aircraft from Boeing, 19 spare engines from GE Aerospace and CFM International. The aircraft purchase order includes 20 additional Boeing 777-9s, 25 additional 787-10 Dreamliners, 50 737 Max 10s, and eight 777-8F freighter aircraft.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - Emirates has introduced premium economy seats on flights to four additional cities. Following the rollout on routes to London Heathrow, Hong Kong, Paris CDG, Sydney and New York JFK, Premium economy class is now available on routes from Dubai to Amman, Mumbai, Muscat and Bahrain.

GD TRAVEL NEWS - A plane from London Heathrow with 311 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in Russia yesterday. An Air China Boeing 777-39L(ER) suffered engine failure and requested landing at the city of Nizhnevartovsk in Siberia…