air transport

What are the trends and challenges facing the airline industry in 2024, particularly for business travellers? Paul Chiambaretto - The macro-economic trends, as confirmed by the IATA figures, are fairly optimistic in terms of global air traffic demand. This will enable us to exceed 2019 levels. With...

What do you think of the controversy surrounding business aviation that has marked 2023? Roch Artheau - At the risk of surprising you, I think that the 'bashing' of business aviation is having a positive effect. Because it is forcing us to react, to be even more agile, to transform ourselves and to propose solutions that are truly sustainable...

Latam Airlines Group is preparing to launch a new route connecting Madrid to Bogota, the capital of Colombia. This new route will be a first for the company. However, Latam will be competing with three other airlines on this route, one of the best served between Spain and South America. Avianca offers...

For the 2024 summer season, Swiss will be offering its passengers an even wider range of European short-haul destinations. According to Tamur Goudarzi Pour, Chief Commercial Officer, "the airline is delighted to be expanding our range of European destinations. This reinforces our commitment to offering a first-class service and a wide choice of destinations...

For several months now, international airlines have been unable to recover the revenue from the sale of international tickets in Nigeria. The country, which is facing major financial difficulties, is confronted with a shortage of foreign currency. The country is thus blocking the conversion of the local currency, the Naira. But also...

The improvement in diplomatic relations is having a positive effect on air travel: the national airline Air Algérie has just announced the resumption of its flights to Madrid following the re-establishment of relations between Algeria and Spain. Algeria had decided to suspend its relations following the Spanish Prime Minister's support for the autonomy plan of the autonomous region of...

The battle had been going on for several months. Authorised to operate a daily flight to Sydney, Turkish Airlines wanted to be able to increase the number of frequencies to Australia. The airline plans to launch flights to Australia in 2024. In the end, Transport Minister Catherine King put her signature to a new agreement...

The war between Israel and Hamas drags on, but European airlines have finally decided to resume flights to Tel Aviv. They seem to have received sufficient guarantees for the safety of the air links, which have been suspended since October. All the more so as El Al, for its part, has never stopped flying...

The implementation of cross-border free-flow airspace by Eurocontrol's Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) and German air traffic control DFS (Deutsche Flugsicherung) in Karlsruhe has, since 30 November, freed up capacity in the upper airspace of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and...

After a 2023 marked by both the gradual return of business travel and widespread inflation, 2024 could be the year of stabilisation. This is the trend that emerges from the Air Monitor 2024 report published on Monday by American Express GBT: "In all regions, fluctuations in fares are expected to stabilise....

According to IATA's latest forecasts, the air transport industry should return to good health in 2023 and 2024. The airline industry's net profits should reach 25.7 billion dollars in 2024. This would generate a net profit margin of 2.7 %. This is a slight improvement on 2023, when...

Ethiopian Airlines Group, the fastest growing airline on the African continent, has signed agreements for the purchase of a total of 84 aircraft at the Dubai Airshow. It reinforces Ethiopian Airlines' leadership in Africa, having in just a few years taken the place held for decades by South African...

A new function on the mobile application that allows customers on a domestic flight to track their baggage in real time. This is what Air Canada has been offering since December. The carrier is also making it possible to track mobility aids at key points in their journey. "At Air...

It's officially a done deal. On 30 March, flights operated by the national carrier Air Malta will be the last in its half-century history. The following day will see the first flights of KM Malta Airlines, the designated successor. The new entity has just received its air operator's certificate from the Maltese Civil Aviation Authority. On the same day, it...

Consolidation has resumed in the United States with the announcement on Sunday 3 December of the acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines by Alaska Airlines. The Honolulu-based carrier is to be acquired by Alaska Airlines for around 1.9 billion dollars, including the purchase of Hawaiian's net debt (0.9 billion dollars).

Closing the Covid chapter in the airline offer once and for all. That's what FCM Consulting, a major player in travel management, is anticipating. The company is in fact a partner for thousands of national and multinational organisations, including many of the major national brands in the CAC 40. The increase in air capacity should finally make it possible to redress the imbalance between...

Officially launched by Airbus in December 2000, the Airbus A380 will have had the shortest life of any of the European aircraft manufacturer's models. Its production will have lasted just 19 years between the manufacture of the first wingboxes in 2002 and the last aircraft delivered to Emirates in 2021. Or even just 14 years, if you...

It's the eternal controversy over the rise in air fares and those responsible for it. For IATA, the international air transport association, the picture is somewhat Manichean. The good guys are the airlines, which are limiting their fare increases to well below inflation. The bad guys are the airports, which are indulging in shameless fee increases. IATA:...

The necessary modernisation of French air transport will involve a sharp reduction in airline activity in January and February 2024, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has announced. This is in fact a necessary technological modernisation of a system that has not changed since the 1970s. A new software l...

Finnair has been one of the airlines most affected by the ban on EU carriers flying over Russian territory since the outbreak of Russia's war with Ukraine. With the ban on flights over Russia, Finnair can now only reach Asia via the southern routes. In other words...