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Immediate Jet2 and Tui holidays to operate as planned

EasyJet Holidays, though, pulls all trips due to depart up to 2 December

High street agents ordered to close for a month from Thursday

All non-essential retail premises to shut until at least 2 December if MPs agree new national lockdown on Wednesday (4 November)

'Conditional' green light for US cruise resumption

Long-standing no-sail order replaced by ’framework for conditional sailing order’

Former Waitrose comms chief joins Abta

Graeme Buck appointed director of communications, replacing Victoria Bacon who left in May

G Adventures launches winter Canaries and Maldives trips

Tenerife hiking trip and Maldives dhoni boat adventure among new winter and spring 2020/21 options from adventure specialist

EasyJet Holidays makes Cyprus refund pledge

Operator hopeful of refunding customers within 14-day statutory refund window

Two-thirds of 2021 Royal Caribbean Group bookings in Q3 'new'

Rate up from 60% in June as line posts $1.3 billion quarterly loss

Wizz Air announces new Madeira and Gibraltar routes

New flights from Luton to start in December

United Airlines to launch transatlantic Covid testing pilot

All passengers over two years of age to be guaranteed a free pre-flight test, with all crew required to test negative before departure

Boeing making 'steady progress' on 737 Max return

1,400 test and check flights completed, amounting to more than 3,000 flight hours as planemaker aims to return stricken model to service

Travel's gender pay gap narrows despite executive pay disparity

While there is relative parity for entry, mid and senior-level roles, this is dwarfed by a significant – and increasing – divide between levels of executive pay

Testing focus for next industry Twitterstorm – today 10am

At 10am, the industry is being urged to post the same tweet – aimed at transport secretary Grant Shapps

Abta: Lack of progress on posted workers 'a significant challenge'

‘The opportunities offered to young people through a period of living and working overseas are self-evident,’ says Abta’s Luke Petherbridge

Covid risk 'no longer greater among overseas travellers'

Latest ONS data shows negligible difference in rates of positive Covid cases among those who have travelled abroad in the past 30 days and those who have remained in the UK

Club Med to open new £80 million Morocco eco-resort

Operator to pump more than £100 million into its Moroccan operation

Face masks 'most essential part' of Covid air safety measures

New study examines carriers’ efforts to mitigate spread of coronavirus and what measures have proved most effective

UK venues invited to seek new Covid safety accreditation

Well Health-Safety Rating system designed to help businesses prepare for the post-Covid world

Virgin Voyages cancels December sailings

First Miami departures now scheduled for January

Travel corridors driving 'very late booking market'

Advantage’s AMS businesses saw Canary Islands bookings double year-on-year over the weekend after the government opened a travel corridor to the popular winter sun destination

Princess Cruises pushes back Australia restart

Pause in Australia and New Zealand operations extended to end of May 2021

Airlines will have no option but to cut more jobs – Iata

New analysis by the association finds airlines aren’t able to cut costs sufficiently to negate cash burn without laying off staff

Operators praised for snap travel corridor reaction

Agents hail Jet2holidays and Tui for getting Canaries on sale within hours of travel corridor update

WebBeds urges partners to pursue WHO Covid standards

New partnership with hygiene specialist aiming to up minimum standards for Covid safety across 30,000+ directly contracted hotels

Premier Inn owner 'trading ahead of market' despite loss

’Performance following reopening in the summer was encouraging’ says Whitbread chief