Air India announces direct flights between Mumbai and Melbourne, Vistara announces daily non-stop flights between Delhi and Bali, IndiGo extends its Qantas codeshare deal to fly seamlessly to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane via Singapore and more.

the new TCS rule for overseas tour packages comes into effect from Oct 01, Abu Dubai to launch its new state-of-the-art Terminal A in November, Emirates to offer Premium Economy on Mumbai and Bengaluru routes from Oct 29, Uganda Airlines commences direct flights between Entebbe and Mumbai and more.

A summary of the new developments in the world of travel includes: Akasa Air gets the nod from DGCA to fly overseas, Air France-KLM & Etihad expand their partnership, Indigo & BA enter into a code share agreement, Vistara announces 6x direct flights between Mumbai and Frankfurt from Nov and more.

In major news since our last update; IndiGo widens global footprint with 2 new destinations, connecting New Delhi with Almaty and Tashkent. United Airlines announces a double daily between New Delhi and Newark from October. Akasa Air launches daily flights between Pune and Hyderabad and much more.

Singapore includes India in the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme paving the way for resumption of scheduled commercial flights between Singapore & India. Australia reopens its borders to international students and skilled workers from Dec 1. and more updates.

The world has turned upside down in the last 72 hours since WHO has declared ‘Omnicron’ as a variant of concern. In the last 48 hours, the Indian Govt. has updated the guidelines for international arrivals to India with effect from 1st December.

Here are the most important travel updates since our last newsletter in September.

Domestic airlines stop PPE kits for middle seat passengers, DGCA allows airlines to operate more flights ahead of the festive season, Emirates offers complimentary Expo 2020 Dubai Day Pass, Air Canada to resume direct flights between Delhi and Toronto. And many more updates.

Sri Lanka opens up to fully vaccinated Indians who have taken either Covaxin or Covishield and Austria has opened its borders to Covishield vaccinated Indians. Government increases cap on India-UK flights from 30 to 60 flights a week. SpiceJet launches new direct flights from Pune and more.