Business travel

Spanish carrier Iberia is returning to pre-pandemic capacity this winter to Mexico, with over 300,000 seats and 21 weekly frequencies between Madrid and Mexico City.

Trenitalia, which will be operating on the Paris-Lyon route from the end of 2021, will be launching high-speed trains in Spain at the end of November through its new company, iryo.

Despite the rise in ticket prices and congestion at airports, the recovery in air traffic is being confirmed, according to consultant OAG. Seat capacity in Western Europe and North America in mid-August 2022 was on average 10% below the same period in 2019. France was within this average...

Turkish Airlines is actively preparing its expansion, and is set to launch a new service in France on the Istanbul-Nantes route. The airline is planning to open a total of some fifteen destinations around the world as its traffic picks up strongly.

Tel Aviv is undergoing a renaissance. The normalisation of relations between Israel and its Gulf neighbours and the authorisation for El Al planes to fly over Saudi Arabia herald a role as a hub between North America, Europe and Asia. This will also benefit the hotel industry, which is already benefiting from Tel Aviv's positive image as a contemporary Mediterranean metropolis...

Emirates is investing more than 2 billion dollars in the design of its aircraft and on-board service. Chairman Tim Clark claims to be pursuing a "contrarian" strategy.

Passenger compensation website AirHelp has analysed which US airports suffer the most flight cancellations. New York LaGuardia and Newark top the list. Washington Ronald Reagan, Pittsburgh and Boston are also among the airports most affected.

The Czech Republic is set to find itself at the heart of a new high-speed rail route in Central Europe, which will eventually link Berlin with Vienna and Budapest, and Warsaw with Vienna and Budapest. Both projects are being carried out under the auspices of the CER (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies) in partnership with České dráhy (Czech Railways).

China's military manoeuvres around Taiwan have affected air links to and from the island. But the situation returned to normal on Monday, according to the Taiwanese Ministry of Transport and Communications.

In June, 1.733 million passengers passed through Brussels Airport. This is the best result since the start of the Covid crisis in absolute figures. The Belgian capital's airport also welcomed 7.75 million passengers over the whole of the first half of 2022, an improvement of 300% compared with 2021.

Air France has just announced the first details of its winter schedule. The Americas and Indian Ocean destinations are seeing an improvement in their service.

Vueling, IAG's low-cost subsidiary, has announced that it is positioning itself this winter from Paris to Asturias in Spain, Cairo and Shannon in Ireland.

Faced with the difficulties encountered at Heathrow, British Airways is taking a further step by deciding to temporarily halt short-haul sales at its London hub.

Quito is about to get its very first metro, facilitating urban mobility within the capital of Ecuador, in particular as far as the Convention Centre...

Transavia has announced the launch of two new routes on 30 October: Montpellier-Madrid and Orly-Istanbul.

The Rosewood Vienna hotel officially opened its doors on 1 August in the heart of the Austrian capital.

Finnair has announced its return to service between Helsinki and Guangzhou on 6 September. The airline will offer a weekly frequency. Beyond this minimal opening, this return has symbolic value in the face of an inexorably closed China.

The Accor group is today inaugurating a new strategic address for business and MICE travellers: the Pullman Doha West Bay hotel.

Following in the footsteps of KLM and Lufthansa, British Airways is adopting the practice of "Hate Selling" tickets, artificially lowering fares to discourage passengers. Single tickets on the Paris-London route are averaging €350 at the beginning of August...

As the leading airline on the Paris-New York route, Air France will be further strengthening its offer with a daily flight from its CDG hub to the Newark hub, ten years after discontinuing this service.