air transport

A new Airbus A380 to Frankfurt-Singapore, more flights to Copenhagen, a return to non-stop flights to Barcelona and Milan and more frequencies to Australia, China, Malaysia and Vietnam. This is what Singapore Airlines is planning for its next winter schedule and for the 2024 summer season. The airline is...

Carsten Spohr, the CEO of the Lufthansa Group, is in no mood for modest triumph. The Lufthansa Group is well on course to record one of its best financial years ever. According to estimates, the Lufthansa Group now expects to achieve an adjusted operating profit (EBIT) of more than CHF 2.6 billion in 2023....

World air traffic is returning to pre-covid levels. According to IATA, in May 2023, the number of passengers (expressed in revenue/km) was only 3.9% lower than in May 2019. But with this return to normal in the aviation world, we can see that the infrastructure is not keeping up. Particularly in the...

79 out of 112 routes where the plane is cheaper than the train. This is the surprising finding of a Greenpeace study that compared air and rail in Europe. And this at a time when the European Union and national authorities are constantly hammering home the need to favour rail over air. But in...

Will the Emergency Vacating of Aircraft Cabin (EVAC) Act become a sword of Damocles for US airlines? Not least in their efforts to make their aircraft more profitable... Over the last two decades, US carriers have been nibbling away year after year at the space devoted to...

Passengers flying from Geneva or Zurich airports will benefit from a "Special Holiday" service. The airline Swiss is offering its passengers the option of having their baggage transported to the airport free of charge using the AirPortr service. This service not only collects baggage, but also checks it in and secures it until it arrives at the destination airport....

Willie Walsh, the Director General of IATA, is not known for speaking out of turn. And for vilifying the institutions that impede the smooth running of air transport. In the crosshairs of the former British Airways CEO: air traffic control. Last month, I expressed my concerns about the performance of air traffic control," he said.

In its latest bulletin covering the week from 26 June to 2 July, Eurocontrol reports that air traffic in Europe recorded 32,998 average daily flights. This represents an increase of +8% compared with 2022, or 93% of the level of movements recorded in 2019. For the month of June as a whole, the...

As part of Egypt's "Vision 2030" development plan, the national carrier Egyptair announced at the end of June the possibility of obtaining a free transit visa. The measure, announced by Mohamed Abbas Helmy, Minister of Civil Aviation, should help revitalise tourism. This facility offers visitors the chance to stay in Egypt for a few days,...

In response to strong demand, Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its flight schedule on European routes for the coming 2023/2024 winter season. It will include new destinations and more frequent flights to some of the airports already served. Swiss's short- and medium-haul network will thus comprise 68 destinations from...

Britain's Virgin Atlantic wants to capitalise on its recent entry into Skyteam by offering new intercontinental routes. The airline intends to capitalise on sustained demand for international long-haul travel, and to take advantage of a market with high demand. Virgin passengers should benefit from more than 250,000 additional seats between now and...

Air Tahiti Nui celebrated its inaugural flight from Paris CDG Terminal 2 to Seattle Tacoma on 14 June. The flight landed on time in the Emerald City after an excellent journey. The CEO of Air Tahiti Nui, Michel Monvoisin, took advantage of the inauguration of the route in Paris to thank the...

It was expected, but now it's confirmed: VoloCity flying taxis will be taking to the skies over Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games. A commercial launch for the general public that will also be a world first. Volocopter, the German group behind the VoloCity project, made the announcement at the Paris Air Show in the company of its partners,...

Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways and All Nippon Airways: these are the three winners of the 2023 Skytrax Sky Awards. Whether you like it or not, what has become the airline equivalent of the film Oscars in the United States serves as a benchmark for travellers. The Skytrax Awards are based on a questionnaire filled in...

Just a few days ago, the Vivatech trade fair was a showcase for innovation in aeronautics, with the presentation of a new "green" hypersonic aircraft from the Swiss start-up Destinus, which by 2030 could be carrying around thirty passengers on 4-hour Paris-Sydney flights, and the AirScooter, a futuristic Vespa with its own landing system...

Saudi Arabia's openness to the world was bound to result in an increased presence of the oil-rich kingdom's airlines at the Paris Air Show. The first to create a buzz was Riyadh Air. Admittedly, Tony Douglas, the CEO of this carrier positioned in the top-of-the-range segment, has ruled out...

On Friday, Emmanuel Macron pledged the French government's support for the decarbonisation of air transport, a commitment that includes setting up a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production chain. "We'll be there in 2027-2030", he said during a visit to the Safran plant in Villaroche, in the Seine-et-Marne region, as the French government prepares to...

The decarbonisation of air transport is essential to its survival, as well as being a communication issue for airlines wishing to prove that they are moving towards air transport that is compatible with environmental issues. Air France-KLM has therefore put in place an environmental policy that includes the increased use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF);...

Accelerating the decarbonisation of air transport while supporting a cutting-edge industrial sector: Emmanuel Macron is committed to greening a key sector for the French economy, with Airbus, Dassault, Safran and Thales leading the way on the industrial side, and Air France and ADP on the business travel side. "We have the means...

To coincide with the presidential announcements expected in the run-up to the Paris Air Show, the ADP Group commissioned IFOP to survey Europeans' expectations of the airline industry. Nearly a thousand people were questioned in each of the five countries covered by the study (France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain), with a slight over-representation from...