Day Headlines in Travel News: 2025-12-28

  • Ikos Odisia: Corfu’s Crown Jewel of Luxury Hospitality (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:41:18)
    Perched gracefully on a sun-drenched peninsula on the northwest coast of Corfu, Ikos Odisia has solidified its reputation as one of Europe’s most exceptional luxury retreats. For the second consecutive year, this stunning resort has been honored as Europe’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort at the prestigious World Travel Awards — a testament to its unwavering commitment to excellence, elevated guest experiences, and thoughtful luxury.
  • Ethiopian Achieves Major MRO Breakthrough with First A350-900 Full Strip and Paint Program in Africa (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:38:00)
    Ethiopian Airlines, the leading carrier in Africa and one of the fastest-growing airline brands globally, is proud to announce the successful completion of Africa’s first full strip-and-paint program of the Airbus A350-900 aircraft on two of its aircraft, marking a significant advancement in Ethiopian MRO’s capacity, technical expertise, and commitment to operational excellence. This achievement marks yet another milestone following the recent development of full strip-and-paint capabilities on the Boeing 787 fleet composite painting capability.
  • Launch of New Transportation Service “JAL de Hako-byun” (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:35:46)
    JALCARGO and the JR East Group are pleased to announce the launch of a new one-stop transportation service, “JAL de Hako-byun,” which combines the strengths of the Shinkansen high-speed rail network and JAL’s global air cargo network.
  • American further strengthens its Flagship hub (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:32:00)
    American Airlines is fundamentally changing the way it does business at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), the airline’s largest hub, and the airline’s customers will soon benefit from those changes in a meaningful way.DFW has an outsized impact on the rest of the airline’s operation and on the journeys of the nearly 700,000 customers the airline serves every day across its global network. More customers and more bags travel and connect through DFW every day than any other airport in American’s network — with more than 30% of all daily connecting customers and daily connecting checked bags traveling through the airline’s hometown airport. When DFW runs well, American runs well. That impact demands continued focus and investment, and both are already well underway.
  • Pegasus Airlines Announced as Official Airline Partner of Chelsea Football Club (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:30:07)
    Extending across both men’s and women’s teams, the partnership brings together two dynamic organisations with a shared commitment to innovation, global growth and connecting people – whether through football or travel.Launching as a scheduled carrier in 2005, Pegasus Airlines has spent more than two decades making air travel accessible to millions through its cost-effective and digital-first business model. Today, serving 158 destinations in 55 countries, it is also among the world’s most profitable airlines, operating one of the youngest, most fuel-efficient fleets globally. Pegasus Airlines’ significant order of 200 new aircraft, together with its recent agreement to acquire Czech Airlines and its subsidiary Smartwings, marks a new chapter in Pegasus Airlines’ international growth strategy.
  • Virgin Atlantic launches the future of travel planning (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:26:27)
    Virgin Atlantic recently unveiled the full rollout of its innovative Virgin Atlantic Concierge across both the Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Atlantic Holidays websites, giving every guest access to an intelligent, always-on travel companion that redefines how journeys are planned and booked.
  • Riyadh Air Launches ‘Employment First’ Overseas Aviation Training Scholarship Program (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:24:47)
    Riyadh Air’s newly-announced ‘Employment-First’ Overseas Scholarship Program aims to launch several scholarship tracks, starting with two specialized paths for engineers in Australia, followed by a pilot training program in the United States.
  • Oman hotel revenues up more than 18% to OMR193.4 million as hospitality expansion continues (Breaking Travel News 2025-12-28 07:20:05)
    Hotel revenues in Oman rose by more than 18% year-on-year between January and September 2025 to reach a new nine-month high of OMR193.4 million (US$505 million), according to leading real estate advisory and property consultancy, Cavendish Maxwell.In the same period, room revenues climbed by nearly 21%, occupancy rose by 13%, hotel guest numbers grew by 9% and employment in the hospitality sector increased by 5.3%, the company said.