Delta Air Lines’ first priority is the safety of our customers and our employees. We’ve expanded our cleaning processes to include a fogging procedure that disinfects surface areas that we all touch in the aircraft. The procedure uses a safe, high-grade EPA-registered disinfectant that is highly effective against many communicable diseases, including coronaviruses. Following the fogging procedure, cleaning crews thoroughly clean cabin surfaces including tray tables, seatback screens, and lavatories.

Source: World Airline News

Finnair is cancelling all flights to the US between 19 March and 12 April due to the US Government’s travel restrictions. Finnair is also cancelling its flights to Delhi between 15 March and 14 April due to recent visa restrictions. Finnair flies from Helsinki to New York and back until 18 March, in order to fly customers home. For flights departing 14 – 18 March, restrictions on Schengen passengers going to the US will be in effect as specified by the US authorities. Finnair also flies to Los Angeles on Sunday 15 March and to Miami today, 12 March. Finnair is continuously following the impacts of the coronavirus situation. Due to the decreased transfer passenger loads caused by these cancelations, further impacts on Finnair’s narrow-body traffic in Europe are to be expected. Finnair will communicate these changes once such decisions are made. Finnair will communicate flight cancellations directly to customers who have bookings on these flights. Customers can then either seek for a full ticket refund or postpone their travel by contacting Finnair’s customer services. Unfortunately, the customer service lines are very congested at the moment, so we suggest customers who don’t have bookings for immediate departures to contact Finnair’s customer services at a later stage. In addition, Finnair is offering customers with bookings on Finnair flights full flexibility to change their travel dates without a change fee until 30 November, 2020.

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The United States will ban nearly all travel from Europe to the United States from 13 March, US President Donald Trump says in an address to the nation. “We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” Trump says in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on 11 March. “The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight. These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.” Exceptions will be made for Americans who have “undergone appropriate screenings”, he adds without expanding on what such screening might entail. The restrictions do not apply to the United Kingdom, which is no longer politically part of Europe. The travel ban is designed to prevent further spread of the coronavirus, which has sickened 118,000 people in more than 110 countries. The President referred to the virus as a “foreign virus” because it began in mainland China, where most of the illnesses and deaths have occurred so far. As of Wednesday evening local time, the outbreak has now encompassed 42 states, and more than 1,000 cases have been reported, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In Europe, Italy has been hit particularly hard, with 10,000 reported cases and almost 700 deaths as of Wednesday.

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