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COVAC GLOBAL | August 27, 2020

COVAC GLOBAL announces the first fully indemnified COVID-19 membership program for US business and leisure travellers. With travel back on the radar, people in the US can now travel worldwide with confidence knowing that if they should contract COVID-19 while abroad COVAC GLOBAL will arrange and pay for a private aircraft to transport them back to their home city. The company is true to its motto "Get Sick. Get Home."...

Airlines and Airports

Oman Air & IBS Software | May 16, 2022

Oman Air has partnered with IBS Software to fully digitalize its staff travel program, delivering a highly configurable, self-service platform for employees to book and manage complex leisure travel, annual leave travel and duty travel policies.Award-winning Oman Air overhauled its on-premise legacy system with IBS Software's SaaS-based iFly Staff platform to enable self-service for its employees to easily manage their travel needs. The system has also significantly extended usability, allow...

Features and Advice

Dragonchain My travelBLOC | September 03, 2021

My Travel Bloc Inc. and Bellevue based Dragonchain have entered into a Letter of Intent to co-develop and deploy the most secure and efficient blockchain travel solution on earth. TravelDragon will combine My Travel Bloc's global travel services platform with Dragonchain's energy efficient hybrid blockchain and patented smart contracts platform. This benchmark solution is designed to process over twenty two thousand (22,000) transactions per second on an environmentally su...

Industry Outlook

prnewswire | May 23, 2023

United today became the first U.S. airline to support Live Activities for iPhone, giving customers real-time access to their boarding pass, gate and seat number, and countdown clock to departure time on their Lock Screen or while unlocked in the Dynamic Island, all without opening the United app. United customers check their mobile boarding pass and flight status nearly 800,000 times each day, and this new feature makes it even easier and faster for United flyers to receive timely...