air transport

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...

It's a done deal! The Lufthansa group has finalised its acquisition of the Italian airline ITA by officially taking a 41% stake in its capital. The German group's stake in the Italian carrier could rise to 49% by 2029. The transaction became effective after the European Commission gave the green light to the...

Saudi Arabia's new national airline, Riyadh Air, which aims to become the benchmark for aviation in the kingdom, is now having to revise its launch plans. The carrier was originally due to receive the first eight Boeing B787-9 aircraft from a firm order of 39 this year. This would be followed by an option for a further 33 aircraft...

2025 should see an increase in the number of flights between Europe and Asia, if recent announcements by several airlines are anything to go by. Since the winter timetable, Paris-CDG has benefited from three weekly flights to Manila, launched on 7 December by Air France. Aircalin has also been offering two weekly frequencies to Bangkok since 11 December...

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the first major international trade fair of the year, and a veritable global showcase for new technologies. From now until 10 January, you can discover the latest trends and innovations from over 4,500 exhibitors. While more than 3,400 entrants take part in the innovation awards, a...

It's now a tradition. Like every year, the consultant Cirium has published its list of the world's most punctual airlines and airports. Cirium uses a punctuality rate calculated on the basis of an airline landing or taking off within a 15-minute delay. According to...

It is one of the last two gateways to Russia that is partly closed from Europe. And this will make access a little more difficult for travellers who need to get to Russia. Alongside Turkish Airines, Air Serbia remains one of the few airlines in Europe to offer flights to Russia.

How would you sum up 2024 for SITA? Sergio Colella - 2024 was an exceptional year for air travel, as confirmed by IATA. Last year we once again reached the pre-Covid figures, with more than 4 billion passengers. SITA naturally benefited from this. For us, it was a...

Condor is one of the major German airlines specialising in flights to holiday destinations. Founded in 1955 with Lufthansa holding 26%, the airline has its main base at Frankfurt airport. It offers a wide range of flights to the Caribbean. But also to Africa, North America, Asia...