air transport

Three hours: that's how long it currently takes for a passenger in Europe to claim compensation from their airline. But this could change. Poland, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU Council until June, wants to tighten up the current rules, under the influence of the airline lobbies. The rules on compensation are...

We knew that the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House would be a revolution in the way the world's leading power conducts its affairs. The over-activity of the President's new American administration is generating daily surprise, often incomprehension and, increasingly, rejection - even anger in the case of the...

"If they wanted to kill French air transport, they wouldn't have done it any other way". Thomas Juin, Director of La Rochelle Airport but above all President of the Union of French Airports (UAF), is bitterly disappointed. The increase in taxation in 2025 combined with the accelerated withdrawal of the State from its sovereign responsibilities...

For a long time it was considered the "ugly duckling" of the Lufthansa group. But for the second year running, Brussels Airlines has turned a profit. And this year should even see the biggest growth in capacity of the entire Lufthansa Group. It was a difficult start to the year, but the carrier's strategy has paid off...

After years of procrastination by the Australian government over the granting of traffic rights to Qatar Airways, the airline has finally found a solution. It is acquiring a stake in the country's second-largest carrier, Virgin Australia. This investment has in fact received the green light from the Foreign Investment Review Board. It follows an assessment...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published its annual safety report for 2024. The industry recorded another year of solid overall safety performance, including improvements on the five-year average for several key parameters. Nevertheless, the association notes a setback compared with the exceptional performance of 2023....

Bad news for travellers and good news for airline finance directors. The difficulties inherent in purchasing aircraft spare parts (engines, for example) and delays in delivering aircraft mean that air fares are unlikely to fall significantly in Europe. With a very...

What if the Volocopter flying taxi project were to take off again? The German manufacturer ended 2024 in bankruptcy, after the false start of Paris 2024. It is now starting 2025 with new ambitions. These are underpinned by the partnership forged on 18 February with France's Jet Systems. An objective assumed by...

A strike by air traffic controllers and a national demonstration are forcing the Belgian authorities to close airspace altogether. This measure begins at 6.45am on 13 February and is due to be lifted at 10.15pm on Thursday evening. All flights to and from Brussels Airport will be cancelled on Thursday. The...

Air transport is growing in Germany, but perhaps not as much as hoped. These are the findings of the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which has just published the results for 2024 for Germany's 22 main airports. These airports handled 211.4 million passengers. This represents an increase of 7.7 1Q3 on the previous year.

In 2019, Air New Zealand announced that it was working on sleeping areas for economy class passengers. Presented in spring 2023, the "Skynest" product is designed as a "sleep zone", in fact a space equipped with six bunk beds similar to those found on night trains. Air New Zealand will...

François Bayrou unleashed his first 49.3 on the 2025 budget on Monday 3 February in the National Assembly. With the rejection of two motions of censure tabled on 5 February, France's 2025 budget has finally been adopted. It still has to go through the Senate, however, but it is unlikely that any major changes will be made to the...

In order to maximise the use of its terminals in Jakarta, the airport authorities have followed the injunction of Public Enterprises Minister Erik Thohir to rebalance traffic flows. This will be the third time in a decade that a large number of airlines have changed terminals. The last one was in 2023 when AirAsia, Batik Air...

No sooner had the Lufthansa Group's acquisition of a stake in ITA Airways been confirmed than the management teams of Lufthansa and ITA revealed the timetable for the next few weeks leading up to the integration of the Italian carrier. The first immediate measure is the equivalence granted to the frequent flyer programmes: the 36 million Miles & More members...

The rejection of the budget and the fall of the Barnier government had frozen the application of the increase in the solidarity tax on airline tickets (TSBA). The Bayrou government has since set about bringing it back into force. The Joint Committee of seven MPs and seven senators finally confirmed the return of the increase...

79.4% of total passengers in 2019 in 2023; a figure that falls to 75.4% in 2024. DGAC statistics prove it. Domestic traffic in France is collapsing year after year. With a definite acceleration since the Covid period. Last year, 20.2 million passengers took a flight on domestic routes...

The Single European Sky and the operational management of air transport, fleet renewal and (large) grains of sand in supply chains, but also, of course, taxation: the General Meeting of BAR France - the Board of Airlines Representatives association has been bringing together representatives of the major airlines for over 75 years now - provided an opportunity...

Air France flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Tel Aviv will resume on 25 January, unless of course the lull promised by the ceasefire is disrupted before then. The French carrier will operate 5 flights a week for this resumption of operations. But the schedule should gradually return to its usual daily frequency. The flights...

LOT Polish Airlines is to return to Paris Orly, an airport it has served in the past. More precisely 35 years ago, since the carrier's last flights were to Warsaw in April 1990... The Polish national carrier will be landing daily from 31 March...

The Baltic States are clearly harbouring great ambitions to carve out a place for themselves on the international mobility scene. Riga airport is expecting a new terminal and a business district, RIX Airport City, by 2028. And the inauguration of the new Riga-Vilnius train line was celebrated a year ago. And as the year begins...