air transport

The difficulty in recruiting pilots and weaker than expected post-covid demand on certain routes are reflected in the ongoing restructuring of the United Airlines network. The US carrier has already closed some 25 routes and is preparing to suspend a dozen more. Most of these changes are not expected to affect...

Slow to get off the ground, the production of sustainable aviation fuel is gaining momentum in the face of growing demand from airlines and, above all, the prospect of more stringent regulations on its incorporation into aircraft. With a reduction of 65 % in CO2 emissions compared with paraffin for current fuels and -88 % in...

Thai Airways International continues to strengthen its international network. The Thai airline offers flights in Europe to seven destinations, having decided to discontinue its services from Brussels. From Paris CDG, the airline offers a daily flight by Boeing 777-300ER or Airbus A350-900XWB. Frankfurt and London with two daily flights to Bangkok...

It was almost an open secret. Or at least a predictable development. The very strong links forged over the years between Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic on the transatlantic route - and then by ricochet with Air France/KLM - could only lead to integration in due form within the Skyteam alliance. The announcement...

Where do things stand with the restructuring of Air Austral? Jean-Marc Grazzini - In the restructuring plan drawn up a few months ago, the option chosen is for private investors from Reunion Island to acquire a stake in the company. At the same time, we are continuing to renegotiate our debt with the government. This debt is approximately...

Until 2019, Finnair was the airline specialising in Asia, with a network that included many secondary cities with little or no service from competitors. At the time, the Finnair network included cities such as Sapporo and Fukuoka in Japan and Xian in China. "But the conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Delta is expanding its transatlantic service for the 2023 summer schedule. The carrier has programmed a capacity increase of 8 % in additional seats compared to summer 2022. "Next summer, Delta will offer customers even more popular destinations on both sides of the Atlantic, continuing to strengthen its position as the carrier...

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...