air transport

Free Wi-Fi has found a new emulator in air transport. Since 1 November, Malaysia Airlines has been offering this service to all passengers on 20 wide-body aircraft. The service will then be gradually rolled out on certain narrow-body aircraft. This is the second stage of a free Wi-Fi service. In...

Ever since the Covid crisis, Amsterdam Schiphol airport seems to have been in the eye of the storm, both from Dutch political circles and from the airport management. Nothing seems to spare the hub, which could ultimately suffer from a widely degraded image. The authoritarian reduction in the number of flights by the government...

Airlines flying to China can offer more flights this winter, according to China's civil aviation authority CAAC. The increase in capacity mainly concerns domestic flights. The number of domestic flights is up by 34% compared with the pre-Covid period. This represents almost 97,000 weekly frequencies. Internationally, capacity to...

Rumours of the return of a direct service between France and Australia have been circulating for some years now, particularly following the launch of a non-stop London Heathrow-Perth flight by Australian flag carrier Qantas. Last year, the Australian airline finally chose Rome Fiumicino for a seasonal flight. It has now finally confirmed...

After a good summer season, particularly in terms of passenger numbers on long-haul routes, Air France is continuing to reopen and expand its global network. During the 2023-2024 winter season, the airline will serve 167 destinations, including 84 on long-haul routes and 83 on short and medium-haul routes. The national carrier will thus return to a level...

The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is beginning to spill over into Lebanon, raising fears of a conflagration in the region. Some airlines are therefore taking precautions when serving Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The Lufthansa group has announced that it is temporarily suspending its service. Its daily flight to Frankfurt and...

Bamboo Airways launched its flights to Vietnam in 2019 with great fanfare. With the promise of becoming a serious competitor to the national carrier Vietnam Airlines. 4 years later, the dream has been shattered by the realities of an Asian air transport industry that is still finding its feet since the Covid crisis. The Asian recovery is confirmed...

Avianca has been through a difficult period that has called its business model into question. Avianca was originally the national carrier of Colombia, but it also became the main carrier in Ecuador following its merger with the Ecuadorian national carrier TACA. The company also operated a large number of subsidiaries in...

Air Algérie is continuing to expand, with the airline aiming to serve more than 60 destinations over the next few years. The carrier has recently strengthened its presence on the African continent. At the end of September, Air Algérie inaugurated two weekly flights to Johannesburg. Last March, the carrier had already returned to Libreville in Gabon. The carrier...

2023 will have been an excellent year for Delta Air Lines, which has seen a steady rise in passenger numbers between Europe and the United States. The financial results for the three months to 30 September bear this out. Revenues on international routes were 35% higher than in 2022, with...

The announcement was short-lived. Officially confirmed to AFP on 10 October by a company spokesman, the resumption of flights between Paris CDG and Bamako by Air France only lasted two days. Late in the afternoon of 11 October, the Malian military junta announced that it was cancelling the authorisation granted to Air France...

Updated on 9 October at 2.30pm Air France-KLM, the Lufthansa group, Aegean, LOT, Easyjet, Transavia and Wizz Air: all these carriers have decided to temporarily suspend their flights from Europe due to the Hamas attacks in Israel. On the Tel Aviv airport website, a notice states that the airport is operating as...

On 4 October, Members of the European Parliament issued an important clarification, ruling that the imposition of a supplement for carrying hand luggage in the cabin is contrary to European rules. The airlines' different rules on hand luggage are leading to hidden costs for travellers. The...

Here's a "remake" that British skies could have done without: a wave of sick leave, which is forcing Gatwick airport to cap its operations. The aim is to "avoid last-minute delays and cancellations for passengers". Air traffic control is understaffed, with 30% staff "unavailable for various reasons".

This is a relatively unknown factor in the impact of the aviation sector on the environment. Aside from the debates on the relevance of domestic flights or the ceilings to be imposed in this or that European hub, AirHelp has looked into the consequences of flight disruptions on the planet. And according to the calculations in the study published on 26 September,...

Heart Aerospace is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, one of Europe's centres for environment-related industries. The company, which was founded in 2019, is an offshoot of a research programme into new sustainable transport solutions, funded by the Swedish government via its Innovation Agency. Heart Aerospace is in fact one of the...

Far behind the "behemoth" Brussels Airlines, the private carrier Air Belgium was nonetheless a major player in air transport in Belgium. The airline, based for holiday flights at Brussels South-Charleroi, was founded in 2016. But its expansion was affected from the outset by external factors that weakened the carrier....

Finnair has already announced its plans for the 2024 summer season by revealing some of the new features already scheduled in its flight programme. These include more frequencies from France. But also between Finland and Germany, Scandinavia and Poland. In France, the carrier will be...

18 destinations, including many flights operated on a daily basis. This is what Brussels Airlines is offering this winter on its Sub-Saharan Africa network from Brussels. The Belgian national carrier is bringing a tenth Airbus A330 back into service for the 2024 summer season. This will enable it to restore its fleet...

A terrible earthquake struck Marrakech on the night of Friday 8 to Saturday 9 September. The latest estimates put the death toll at 2,862 and the number of injured at 2,500. Unfortunately, this figure has to be regularly revised upwards as the streets are cleared. The consequences are still difficult to assess.