air transport

Air France has unveiled its flight schedule to the African continent. The schedule includes a number of downward adjustments to frequencies during the month of November. This reduction in the number of flights particularly affects Abidjan, Douala, Lagos, Libreville, Luanda, Malabo and Pointe Noire. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="130329"] The biggest...

The airline capacity analysis website OAG has been confirming this for some weeks now: South-East Asia is now the fastest-growing region for air transport in terms of the number of seats year on year. If we look at the first week of September 2022 compared with 2021, the number of seats...

American Airlines will soon be bidding farewell to First Class on its domestic routes. And with it, it will be a short and definitive farewell to a first-class product on domestic routes in the United States. American is in fact the last major airline to offer a genuine Flagship First service. This First service still equips...

The restrictions on passenger numbers - and therefore flights - continue at Heathrow airport. On 15 August, London's busiest airport informed airlines that it would have to extend its capacity ceiling until the end of October. Since June, the airport has been limiting the maximum number of passengers to 100,000. This...

Nigeria is a rich country, very rich, at least on paper. It is Africa's largest oil producer. In 2021, according to OPEC, Nigeria was producing 1.38 million barrels of crude oil a day. In July 2022, production even reached 1.8 million barrels. But the country...

There has been a real upturn in French air transport since the start of the year, even though June saw a slight fall in traffic. According to DGAC statistics, French air transport recorded 61.71 million passengers in the first half of the year. This figure corresponds to 72.2% of traffic for the same period in 2019....

Iberia's network in Latin America is back to pre-Covid levels, particularly in Mexico. With three daily flights, Mexico City will become Iberia's busiest long-haul destination. This decision to once again offer these three daily frequencies from Madrid strengthens the Spanish airline's leading position on the Mexican market...

According to consultants OAG, air traffic is continuing to recover worldwide, albeit unevenly from one continent or region to another. The three biggest air markets by region - Western Europe, North America and North-East Asia - are all showing different trends. At 15 September, these three markets...

Turkish Airlines has just published its results for the first half of 2022. They confirm the upturn in global traffic, which is of particular benefit to the Turkish airline. Turkish carried 30.89 million passengers in the first six months of 2022. Although this performance is still 12% down on the previous year's figures,...

China's military manoeuvres around Taiwan have resulted in an air and sea encirclement of the island. The aim of the military exercise was to completely isolate the island, which Beijing continues to regard as its own. The aerial encirclement led Beijing to notify airlines that there was a temporary danger of flying into the island.

Vueling has just announced two new routes departing from Paris Orly this winter, as well as the extension of the Orly-Asturias route launched this summer. The latter route will continue to be served twice weekly. Vueling also plans to launch two further weekly flights from Asturias (Spain) to Amsterdam on 30 October. The flights will be...

From July to October 2022, Air France will be unveiling new Michelin-starred menus by top French chefs Michel Roth and Anne-Sophie Pic in its long-haul La Première and Business cabins on departure from Paris. Working with seasonal produce, vegetarian dishes, red and white meats and fish, the chefs have come up with dishes...

Corsair is continuing to expand its network in Africa. The carrier already serves Abidjan with a daily flight. On 16 June, it also reopened its Paris Orly-Bamako route in Mali, with three weekly flights. This winter it is doing it again with the launch of three weekly flights to the capital of Benin, Cotonou. The carrier...

The aviation industry in Asia is still in a state of disarray, with the borders of a number of countries, including China, Taiwan and Japan, still hermetically sealed. Added to this is the resurgence of Covid in this part of the world - Macao is under confinement for the first time, for example -, the lengthening of...

The technological advance announced by Alaska Airlines will bring numerous benefits to passengers. The electronic baggage tags will allow passengers to avoid printing traditional baggage tags at the airport. Passengers will be able to activate their tags from anywhere - their home, their office or even their car - up to 24 hours before...

Enjoy a complete business class experience without paying the price of a business ticket. This is what airBaltic is now offering with its Business Light fare. The price represents an average reduction of 20% to 30% on a standard business fare. For example, a single ticket from Paris to Riga at the end of August costs...

Hardly a week goes by without London Heathrow airport being pilloried by the British and international media for its disastrous handling of passengers and baggage. And hardly a week goes by without the airport management officially apologising for the inconvenience caused. So the...

Swiss International Air Lines will be expanding its portfolio of destinations from the start of the winter schedules. The carrier is planning 83 destinations from Zurich and 26 from Geneva. This represents approximately 80% of 2019 capacity. The programme features a greater number of destinations than during the winter...

Qatar Airways is one of the few airlines to have permanently offered flights to Australia, even during the harsh confinement of the country. Qatar even launched a new route to Brisbane in early 2020. The carrier carried more than 330,000 passengers between March 2020 and December 2021. Qatar Airways returns to...

Under pressure from staff recruitment difficulties following the Covid crisis, British Airways is tightening its timetable once again. The British carrier explains: "The aviation industry as a whole continues to face significant challenges and we are fully focused on strengthening the resilience of our operations...