air transport

Korean Air has just announced that it will be returning to 50% of its pre-Covid international capacity at the beginning of September in response to the return of passenger demand. In Europe, the carrier plans to offer a network of eight destinations. Korean currently serves Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Paris CDG. Barcelona, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino and Vienna will be added. Before the pandemic, the...

SAS Scandinavian Airlines has been feeling the pinch for a long time now. The company, whose shareholders are the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has been in a poor financial position for more than a decade. Its situation has been weakened by the Covid crisis, particularly with the fall in traffic to Asia....

The announcement is due to be made official on Monday 4 July. But the whole of the German press is already talking about it: Deutsche Bahn is to become a new member of Star Alliance, a first in the world of airline alliances. Deutsche Bahn is already a partner of Lufthansa on routes between Germany and Frankfurt airport. But now it is to become the...

As part of the European Commission's "Connecting Europe Days", five sustainable European flights converged on Lyon airport, where the EU event was taking place. These flights used innovative technologies, fuels and air navigation procedures to minimise their carbon emissions, demonstrating the potential for transforming...

How has traffic been since the reopening of French Polynesia? Mathieu Bechonnet - We've seen very strong activity and a major rebound since the reopening of the Polynesian islands to international visitors. Polynesia is in the process of returning to its pre-Covid levels, with the same pricing practices,...

Is Air France a model in Europe when it comes to managing its staff and, consequently, its summer schedule? There is every reason to believe so, given the French airline's current flight planning situation. Unlike other European airlines - easyJet, British Airways, the Lufthansa group...

Lufthansa is justifying its latest cuts to its summer schedules. The airline cites air safety strikes, weather events and, in particular, a higher-than-expected Covid infection rate. This is putting additional pressure on the system. "The increase in the number of Corona infections we are currently seeing across...

Vueling has just announced that from 2023 it will accept payment for its airline tickets and services in crypto-currency. The carrier is integrating the BitPay crypto-currency platform and the Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) payment network. Crypto-currency payment will only be open to individual travellers. Vueling: 50 air routes from...

A whole month: that will probably be enough time to avoid going to Qatar. Except with the very strong motivation of attending a football World Cup match. The event, organised by FIFA, runs from 21 November to 18 December. It's not going to be easy, though, as...

Oneworld officially announced on 20 June that Oman Air would be joining the alliance by 2024. The arrival of Oman Air in the oneworld alliance will strengthen the position of this grouping of airlines in the Middle East. Oman Air will be the second Gulf carrier to join the alliance after Qatar Airways and, in the Levant, will be the first to join the...

For Spanish carrier Iberia, summer is the perfect time to resume flights on the North Atlantic. At the beginning of June, the carrier launched its new routes to Washington DC and Dallas. Iberia is also resuming frequencies to San Francisco. In fact, the airline's summer schedule for the United States now includes eight destinations, instead of five...

It will have taken just over two years to see an aircraft flying the colours of Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines on the tarmac at Conakry (Guinea) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) airports. This has been the case since 11 June. Since then, Brussels Airlines has been connecting Brussels to the two capitals three times a week....

Bukhara (Uzbekistan) but also Juba (South Sudan) and Tivat (Montenegro). Turkish Airlines has resumed the strong expansion of its network, adding these three destinations which have in common the absence of a major international air network. Turkish Airlines is therefore filling a gap. Since 1 June, the airline has been serving Juba, the capital of the independent state of South Africa...

Swiss is extending its partnership with AirPortr to Zurich airport and any other destination in Switzerland. This baggage service has already been available to customers departing from Geneva airport since last October. Travellers arriving at or departing from Zurich airport can now take advantage of the "AirPortr" service.

Transavia has just announced the opening of sales for the winter season. They are accompanied by a number of new features, including the launch of four international routes from autumn 2022. The low-cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group will be offering flights from its Paris-Orly base to Copenhagen (two flights/week), while Luxor and...

8,000 flights: that's roughly the number of frequencies that British Airways decided to cancel between March and October. This reduction in the number of flights is linked to the fact that the airline is understaffed, having not sufficiently anticipated the upturn in traffic since the start of the year. With the Covid pandemic,...

The cooperation between Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Qatar Airways is expanding with a new step in the connectivity of the two carriers' networks. Malaysia Airlines is launching a non-stop service between Kuala Lumpur and Doha from 25 May. The result will be a stronger network of connections and shared flights...

Air France-KLM and IndiGo have confirmed that they have finally obtained the necessary regulatory approvals for their new codeshare relationship announced for December 2021. Air France-KLM had already been looking for a partner in India for several years following the bankruptcy of Jet Airways. The agreement will result in the establishment of a codeshare...

The launch of Star Alliance's 25th anniversary celebrations will mean a series of innovations for passengers. One of the most important is the launch of a future co-branded credit card. This will include all the airlines in the group. However, few details have been revealed about the future card....

The Algerian national carrier Air Algérie will finally be renewing its fleet of aircraft. This renewal had been suspended indefinitely by the government in 2020 with the health crisis. This is therefore a first for the airline since the pandemic. The previous fleet renewal took place in 2016, when Air Algérie...