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A brief summer cruise season with companies homeported in Bermuda stands to bring $40 million in economic impact, the transport minister revealed yesterday. Lawrence Scott said the announcement that Viking would join Royal Caribbean in launching trip...

Stories in the aviation press that four former British Airways 747 aircraft have been registered in Bermuda are wide of the mark, the head of the island’s Civil Aviation Authority revealed. Thomas Dunstan, director-general of the BCAA, said: “We are ...

A total of $1.3 million has been earmarked to pay for minibuses to take children to and from school this year, the Transport Minister revealed yesterday. Lawrence Scott also announced that $6.6 million would be put towards the purchase of electric bu...

Dutch authorities have released an aircraft operated by a Bermudian aviation group that was involved in an incident that left two people injured. Longtail Aviation will fly a replacement engine to Belgium after its Boeing 747 lost parts of its engin...

Two people were injured this weekend when engine parts from a Boeing 747 operated by Bermudian-based Longtail Aviation fell off and crashed into a Dutch town. The incident happened after one of the 747’s four engines caught fire just after take-off ...

A decision on the future of the old airport building could be made inside the next few months, operator Skyport said yesterday. But a spokeswoman for the agency said it could not discuss what options were being looked at. She added plans were expecte...

The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority said today it will allow flights of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to Bermuda with the removal of the airspace ban and it will also permit the operation of the aircraft type on the Bermuda Aircraft Registry. The cha...

Flights between Bermuda and Canada will be grounded until at least the end of April, it was announced yesterday. Air Canada and WestJet decided to halt flights to Mexico and the Caribbean region until April 30 in an effort to prevent the spread of mo...

“Covid passports” could soon become a reality, the Government’s expert on the coronavirus has warned. Carika Weldon, the head of the island’s coronavirus test programme, predicted at a Bermuda Tourism Authority webinar that a test and vaccination pas...

British Airways will this week cut back on flights between Bermuda and London as the UK battles the Covid-19 pandemic. A Skyport spokeswoman said the BA service between the island and London would be reduced from five flights a week to two from Thurs...

Flights between Bermuda and the Azores will be able to carry more than 180 passengers, operators have said. SATA Azores Airlines confirmed its plans for the weekly service to run this summer. A spokesman said that the route, from Ponta Delgada on São...

Bermuda’s tourism industry is on a “slow and gradual” path to recovery, according to the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Glenn Jones, the interim CEO of the BTA, told the World Tourism Network in an online presentation last Saturday that the b...