air transport

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...

A level playing field for Latin America. This is what will happen if the regulatory approvals are granted for the creation of a new major airline group in Latin America, the future Abra Group Ltd. The decision has been taken by the main shareholders of Colombia's Avianca and the controlling shareholder of Brazil's...

The news was eagerly awaited by everyone, especially business travellers used to long-haul flights: from Monday 16 May, masks will no longer be compulsory for travel. "The constantly improving health situation means that we can lift the requirement to wear a mask on all flights from Monday"...

The need to travel is strong despite the uncertain political and economic situation in Europe. This is the conclusion of ACI Europe, which brings together over 500 airports in some fifty countries across the continent. Compared with the figures for 2020 (the month of March and the 1st quarter of 2020 saw traffic...

The economic climate remains gloomy for the airline ANA, which has given some outlooks for its business over the coming months. In a note published to coincide with the release of its financial results for fiscal year 2021 (1/04/21 to 31/03/22), the carrier continued to see its results impacted by Covid-related restrictions, particularly...

A PCR test 48 hours before departure, a compulsory health declaration, followed by a quarantine reduced to seven days. This is what the Hong Kong authorities now require to visit the city from 1 May. In addition to these formalities, travellers are required to show confirmation of their stay and register on...

Finally, Air Serbia will not be flying to Nice during the high summer season. The airline has decided not to connect the capital of the Riviera with Belgrade due to a lack of traffic. Initially scheduled for April and then postponed until May, the route has simply been withdrawn from the Serbian carrier's booking engines. In fact, the...

Air Caraïbes, the Caribbean specialist airline, and Sunrise Airways (Haiti) have signed a commercial cooperation agreement. It enables passengers to book an end-to-end trip to and from the Haitian provinces. Cap Haïtien, Les Cayes and Jérémie in Haiti are now easily accessible from Paris-Orly. Air Caraïbes operates...

This is good news for travellers who need to get to Mali from France. Corsair has just announced the resumption of its service between Paris-Orly and the Malian capital Bamako. A route that the airline was unable to resume because of the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020. [link-block prefix="See also:"...

In Europe, we already had Lufthansa, which offers a road service under a flight number on the Strasbourg-Frankfurt route. Now it's the turn of the American airlines. Or rather, they are reconsidering this option. In the 80s and 90s, America West already offered bus services between Phoenix and Scottsdale in Arizona. The experience...

Royal Air Maroc has become the first African airline to join oneworld. Why did you wait so long to take this step? Rob Gurney - It was a question of finding the right candidate and being able to identify mutual benefits. I think there was a sort of confluence of events. Royal Air Maroc entered...

Finnish national airline Finnair has grown and prospered in the shadow of its large eastern neighbour. It has benefited from the post-Soviet era from 1991 onwards. An era of opening up to the outside world for Russia, reflected in the development of the travel market and rising living standards...

From 7 May, La Compagnie will take off from Nice Côté d'Azur airport at 13:30 and arrive at New York Newark airport at 17:00. On the return leg, flights will take off from New York at 9.40pm and land in Nice at 12pm the following day. These flights will be operated by La Poste's fleet of A321neo...

Air France seems to be drawing a line under the two years of the pandemic. With almost 200 destinations served at the height of summer, Air France's offer will correspond to 90% of 2019 capacity. On the long-haul network, Air France's business will be driven by buoyant demand in North America, Africa, the Caribbean and...