Reprimands and monitoring can only do so much if there is no political will to do what is right.

Canadian media reports have been rife with passengers saying they were refused compensation due to safety reasons.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has mandated the cancellations of 22 total scheduled US passenger airline flights for Shanghai under its Covid-19 pandemic rules.

The memo by Qantas' fleet operations chiefs reportedly says the Covid-19 related disruption to flights means pilots have less recent flight experience, a requirement known as 'recency'.

This will be especially so once airlines take to the skies again and try to make up for the millions lost during the pandemic groundings.

However, the US is resolute that there will be no vaccination credential as it 'could be used to restrict the daily freedoms of Americans'.

47 passengers on one flight from India were discovered to be Covid-19 positive on arrival in Hong Kong.

Air New Zealand will trial a digital travel pass to give airlines and border authorities access to passenger health information, including their Covid-19 vaccination status.

Passengers who pose any sort of threat to the staff or passengers on the aircraft could be imprisoned or fined.

The carrier described the flight as a refresher for when travel restarts in earnest.

The study concludes that even on a full plane, the level of transmission over 12 hours of flight is negligible.

IATA blames the slow recovery on a lack of consumer confidence, decline in business travel, and the new coronavirus spikes in the US and abroad.