Stay ahead with the latest airline routes, hotel openings, attractions, and global travel updates.

• Qatar Airways has unveiled its expanded winter schedule for 2025, offering increased flight frequencies to over 15 global destinations including London Heathrow, Cape Town, São Paulo and more

• New/Seasonal airline route updates: Starting December 2025, JetBlue will operate new winter routes to Florida beach cities, the Caribbean, and Latin America—opening more leisure options from Boston and New York; Allegiant Air, a new airline coming to Huntsville International, is adding three new nonstop Florida routes

• The European Union has confirmed that its digital border control mechanism, the Entry/Exit System (EES), will officially begin operations from 12 October 2025. The system will record biometric and travel data of non-EU nationals entering and leaving the Schengen Area

• Maldives expands tourism capacity with new terminal at Velana International Airport. The new terminal, the largest building in the Maldives, can handle 7.5 million passengers annually, up from the previous 1.5 million. It was developed alongside a runway expansion to accommodate larger aircraft such as the A380

• Dubai International Airport (DXB) unveils revolutionary AI-powered passenger corridor, a groundbreaking innovation that allows passengers to skip the traditional document checks and immigration desks. This system, described as the “red carpet,” revolutionizes the travel experience by enabling quicker and more seamless passage through one of the busiest airports in the world