air transport

The airline industry is once again up in arms over an idea put forward by Michel Barnier's new government to reduce France's abysmal deficit: raising taxes on air transport. There's nothing original about this idea, which is often seen as an easy way to bring money into the budget....

Qatar Airways and Australia's Virgin Australia signed a classic cooperation agreement in 2022, which included codeshare flights between the two carriers' destinations, the possibility of earning miles on frequent flyer programmes and the use of premium airport services. Today, Qatar Airways is going one step further...

Have we reached saturation point on the France-US route? This could be the case, as Delta Air Lines' 2025 summer schedule does not include any increase in frequencies or new routes from France. However, Delta has declared that the 2025 programme will be the biggest in its history on the Atlantic...

From 28 October, Swiss International Air Lines will be expanding its network of destinations from Geneva. The most important new development is certainly the launch of a daily flight to Berlin. This new route will strengthen Swiss's presence in Northern Germany, adding to the four weekly flights already operated from Geneva to Hamburg....

Ethiopia is about to embark on an ambitious project to build a new airport. A hub with dimensions worthy of its counterparts in the Middle East, at a cost of six billion dollars. With this project, Ethiopian Airlines is realising its vision of becoming THE carrier of the continent. A company that is already the number one in Africa...

Malaysia Airlines has been a loyal customer of Paris airports for decades. The Malaysian airline opened its Paris CDG-Kuala Lumpur DC10 service in 1976. Forty years later, in 2016, the carrier discontinued its service due to financial difficulties and a painful restructuring. All its European routes had been...

This is always good news for both business and leisure travellers. Air fares in France are continuing to fall, a trend that has been observed for several months. The downward trend even accelerated in July. Whereas air fares had risen by a cumulative 8.6% over the year 2023, they did not move at all (0%)...

Ethiopian Airlines is continuing its expansion in Europe this winter. In particular, it is introducing new services to Marseille. The route, inaugurated in 2019 with three weekly frequencies with a stopover at Milan-Malpensa, will be transformed from 2 December, adopting a different trajectory. The airline will be offering three weekly flights...

Malaysian airlines will now have to refund passengers in full for flights delayed by five hours or more, the country's transport minister, Loke Siew Fook, said a few days ago. These measures are part of the amendments made to the Malaysian Aviation Consumer Protection Code...

Brazil continues to play a special role in TAP Air Portugal's intercontinental strategy. The airline has just announced the resumption of flights between Lisbon and Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonia. The route had previously been operated from 2014 to 2016. TAP Air Portugal will operate three weekly flights with a stopover in Lisbon...

The sharp rise in costs since 2020 in Germany continues to have consequences for German airports. Admittedly, in the first half of 2024, air passenger traffic reached 97 million, i.e. 10% more than in the same period of 2023. However, the recovery at all the country's airports remains well below what was achieved in the...

Something is not quite right for European airlines flying to China. The wake-up call came at the beginning of August with the announcement by British Airways that its London Heathrow-Beijing route would be suspended on 26 October. The airline had resumed this route in June 2023 with four frequencies per week....

The signs are all red for the national carrier Air Sénégal. The company, created in 2016, had the ambition to become one of the flagships of air transport in West Africa. To no avail. The company is sinking into crisis due to the costly leasing of aircraft. Until now, the fleet consisted of 7 aircraft. Except for...

The Middle East witnessed the biggest clashes in 10 months of war between Israel and Hezbollah last weekend. The terrorist organisation fired hundreds of rockets and drones into Israel early on Sunday. In retaliation, the Israeli army struck Lebanon with around a hundred jets to thwart an attack by Hezbollah on...

Qatar Airways' imminent entry into the African market by taking over an airline on the continent has been announced for several years. This has now happened, with the Qatari carrier taking a 25% stake in Airlink. This independent regional airline is based in Johannesburg and has become, with the restructuring...

African air transport continues to grow, according to the latest market study by consultants OAG. A positive situation despite the structural difficulties that persist on the continent, such as regional conflicts (Burkina Faso, Democratic Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan, among others) and the absence of national airlines, as in South Africa, for example....

The Lufthansa group has just announced that it will continue to suspend a large proportion of its routes to the Middle East. The ban concerns not only Lufthansa flights but also those of Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Swiss and ITA Airways. The group is now putting forward a date of 13 August for a possible resumption of flights. In the...

With a precarious political situation between Israel on the one hand, and Iran and Lebanon - home to armed factions supported by Iran - on the other, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is asking French nationals to leave Iran and Lebanon as quickly as possible. The ministry is referring to "an increased risk of regional military escalation and...

Information updated on 4/8/2024 Since the weekend, many airlines have decided to suspend services to Beirut and Tel Aviv in the face of rising tensions in the region. A sort of replay of what happened last October after the Hamas attack on Israel. Air France-KLM, which was due to resume...

It's a revolution at Southwest Airlines. For some 50 years, passengers boarding the low-cost airline's aircraft have sat wherever they wished. Or wherever there was still room. The first passengers to board were in fact the best served, with the others filling up as they went along...