Commentary Canada, a country of 38 million, has 6 million political prisoners, the number of partially vaccinated or unvaccinated Canadians that the Trudeau government prevents from boarding a plane or boat to leave the country. No medical or public health rationale prevents them from leaving Canada—these Canadians would be welcome to board an Air France plane…

Hours after the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the federal transportation mask mandate—which the White House quickly threatened to veto—a group of commercial pilots filed the first legal challenge by airline workers to overturn the requirement to wear masks on all public transport. On March 15, 10 commercial airline pilots from six states filed a…

WASHINGTON—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday advised against travel to 22 nations and territories because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases, including for Israel, Australia, Egypt, Albania, Argentina, and Uruguay. The CDC elevated its travel recommendation to “Level Four: Very High,” telling Americans they should avoid travel to those destinations,…

London’s Heathrow Airport said that renewed travel restrictions made on the discovery of the Omicron CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variant has spooked passengers, especially business travelers, who worry they won’t be able to get back home. According to figures released Friday, the demand for air travel, which had started to inch back to normalcy…

The director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) blamed the UK government for implementing excessive and non-scientific travel restrictions immediately upon hearing the news of the Omicron variant. “We are going to have more of them [variants]. We can’t keep shutting down aviation and shutting down economies when, in reality, it’s not providing…

The United States plans to reopen its land borders with Mexico and Canada to non-essential travelers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 starting in early November, Biden administration officials said on Tuesday. The restrictions for non-essential travel at the country’s land borders have been in place since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. News…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Monday against travel to Turkey because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in that nation, but eased its advisory for India. The CDC added Turkey to its “Level 4: Very High” COVID-19 level, while lowering India to “Level 2: Moderate.” U.S. President Joe…

The White House confirmed Monday that because of the surge in cases from the Delta variant, the existing travel restrictions for international travel will remain in place. “We will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point for a few reasons. The more transmissible Delta variant is spreading both here and around the world, driven by…

WASHINGTON—The agency that guards Canada’s borders is putting would-be travellers on notice: if you’re not eligible to enter the country now, you won’t be on Monday. That’s the clear message from the Canada Border Services Agency as it prepares for next week’s preliminary easing of COVID-19 travel restrictions. After midnight Sunday night, fully vaccinated Canadian…

By Nikos Chrysoloras From Bloomberg News The European Union lifted travel restrictions for U.S. residents, in the latest step toward restoring lucrative transatlantic airline routes despite concerns over the spread of potentially dangerous coronavirus variants. Albania, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Taiwan were also added to a so-called “white list” of countries…