Business travel

Singapore Airlines is introducing four weekly VTL-certified flights open only to fully vaccinated passengers on its daily service from Paris.

According to figures published by easyJet on 6 October, business travellers are back on board the airline's aircraft, particularly on the domestic network.

At a time when tourism in Mauritius is starting to pick up again, LUX* is opening a hotel in Grand Baie, in the north of the island, at the beginning of December. Other developments expected by the Mauritian group include an establishment in the south of France in 2023.

The Holiday Inn brand has set up near Paris CDG airport with a hotel offering 250 rooms and a meeting space for up to 350 people.

Lyon-Stockholm, Paris Orly-Ljubljana and Paris Orly-Glasgow are just some of the routes that the low-cost carrier Transavia plans to serve in the coming months.

Air France confirms that air traffic in France is recovering. But this mainly concerns leisure traffic, with the outlook for business traffic still more mixed. Hence the adaptation of the offer.

With the upturn in business travel, SNCF expects business traffic to return to 2019 levels within two to three years.

Ajaccio, Cagnes-sur-mer, Cannes, Marseille: the IHG Group expects to open several new hotels in the south of France by the end of 2022.

An authentic trattoria, a rooftop cocktail bar, a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower and, above all, a wide variety of meeting venues ranging from modular suites to artists' studios: the Novotel Vaugirard has completed its transformation.

Italian carrier ITA, the successor to Alitalia, has just placed its first order for a new, more efficient fleet. And it's Airbus that has just won the bid.

Air France has just announced the first routes to be served by the brand new Airbus A220-300. Nine European cities are scheduled to be served during the 2021/2022 winter season.

A coworking space, a bar and food court, an events room for parties and corporate events: the Accor Arena is transformed into a living space, open day and night.

After long months of paralysis and anxiety, Brussels Airlines seems to be riding a positive wave again, with a more substantial winter programme.

Maison Albar Hotels is continuing to expand internationally, with three five-star boutique hotels planned for the Ivory Coast, notably in the Abidjan business district. It is also expanding in France, notably in Nice.

Manchester Airport's new Terminal 2 welcomed two new airlines on 28 September: Air France and KLM.

The first Airbus A220 arrived in the Air France fleet on Tuesday evening and is due to begin its first commercial flights at the end of October.

The opening of ticket sales on the Paris-Vienna route via Strasbourg marks a new stage in the comeback of night trains in France and more generally in Europe.

Nice airport is gradually returning to a level of passenger traffic more in line with its vocation. Even if we are still a long way from the record year of 2019, when the airport welcomed more than 14 million passengers.

The new Montparnasse station was inaugurated on Friday in the presence of the French Minister for Transport and the heads of the French rail industry. Delivered on time, the success of the project contrasts with the thorny issue of the Gare du Nord, which is more uncertain than ever...

Hilton has set up shop in Porto, on the banks of the Douro, in a former port warehouse converted into a design hotel with extensive meeting and event facilities.