air transport

On Tuesday, France officially banned the operation of domestic short-haul flights on routes where there is a rail service linking two points in less than 2.5 hours. This provision had been announced in August 2021 when the Climate and Resilience Act was promulgated. However, it had to be suspended following a...

Since 15 May, Emirates has required almost all its passengers to use a digital boarding pass. The carrier is thus rendering the paper version obsolete for passengers departing from Dubai. Announced on 12 May, the airline said that passengers checking in at terminal 3 of Dubai International will now only receive a digital boarding pass...

The Covid parenthesis is well and truly over for the Singapore Airlines Group with the announcement of profits for the 2022/23 financial year ending 31 March 2023. After 3 fiscal years of losses, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the SIA group has returned to profit. The carrier has even recorded the best results in its history, with...

Premium Economy Swiss Flight LX180 on 02 May 2023 between Zurich and Bangkok. Night flight with a duration of 10h30. Conditions of purchase Upgrade purchased at the last minute for 150 euros. This upgrade does not entitle the holder to additional baggage allowance, free seat selection or priority access....

Finnair announced a reduction in its in-flight catering service and the abolition of pillows in economy class just a month ago. And now the Finnish national airline is doing it again. This time, Finnair is attacking cabin baggage and reservations...

Simplifying the airport passenger experience using biometric technology. This is what Berlin airport is testing with its new facial recognition application BER Traveller. The airport authority is working in partnership with the Lufthansa group and biometric service provider FastID. The three companies have just launched a test phase. During this period, the service...

Qatar Airways has resumed its direct flights between Nice and its hub, Doha's Hamad International Airport. May 9 marked the airline's return to the Côte d'Azur airport after a three-year interruption. Qatar Airways now offers four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by Boeing 787-8. The aircraft has a...

On Tuesday, the Chaire Pégase, dedicated to the economics and management of air transport and attached to Montpellier Business School, presented its new report on the acceptability of green innovations in the air transport sector. And for an event organised at Roissy during a month of May that is not the most studious, the audience gathered at the...

These flights will be a bit like flying in a private club. British Airways is launching a series of flights exclusively for members of its Executive Club frequent flyer programme. 100% of the seats offered can only be paid for with "avios", points collected on the airline through its FFP. The first...

A new battle is brewing between the DOT and the airlines in the United States. For the first time in American history, the Department of Transportation wants to change the compensation rules. They would require airlines to compensate passengers. In addition to covering certain expenses in the event of controllable delays and cancellations. Of course, there are...

After the euphoria of China's reopening to the rest of the world at the start of the year, the time has now come for uncertainty and doubt. While air traffic between China and Europe has picked up again, it is still well below the initial post-reopening estimates... The consultant OAG, which analyses...

The new interline agreement between Emirates and Etihad is aimed primarily at tourist circuits. But it will also have an impact on business travel. The new agreement signed at the beginning of May 2023 offers travellers additional itinerary options by allowing departure or arrival from both Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Abu Dhabi:...

It used to fly to Bangkok, Colombo, Delhi, Hong Kong, Osaka, Beijing, Singapore, Shanghai and Tokyo. In recent years, SAS Scandinavian Airlines' Asian network had shrunk to a trickle. The airline was faced with financial difficulties, Covid and the closure of borders in Asia. In recent months, however,...

In the face of increasingly fierce competition, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways are stepping up their joint services from New York. The two carriers are offering their "Northeast Alliance" from the three New York airports of JFK, La Guardia and Newark. The La Guardia hub, however, is the first to benefit from the new...

The airline easyJet has commissioned a report from travel experts outlining what travel might be like in 50 years' time, in 2070. The report, entitled "easyJet 2070: the travel report of the future", was written by a group of leading academics and futurists, including Professor Birgitte Andersen...

1,356: that's the number of train journeys analysed in a report by the European Commission, which wants to boost the share of rail travel within the European Union. The report (available in English only), entitled "How fast are rail trips between EU cities and is rail faster than air?", shows that air travel is still in the...

If there is one airline in the world that is particularly suffering from a hostile political and economic environment, it is Finnair. The Finnish airline had built its success on a niche positioning, linking Europe and Asia. But three years of Covid have affected traffic in Asia. Not least because of the bans on...

Are we heading for the demise of another national airline? There is every reason to believe so in Malta. The management of Air Malta has been a disaster for over a decade. Several local newspapers have reported senior government officials talking about a likely refusal by the European Union to provide further aid...

Air Transat is strengthening its presence in France. The scheduled carrier, which tends to focus on the leisure market, is now present at seven French destinations (Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris CDG and Toulouse). The airline also operates scheduled flights to Brussels and Basel-Mulhouse. During the summer, Paris-Roissy CDG is linked to five Canadian cities...

Last month at ITB Berlin, Qatar Airways announced the opening of seven new routes, including 3 in France. Nice-Doha will be the first route to return to the network. It will resume on 9 May with four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights depart from Nice-Côte d'Azur at 4pm and arrive...