air transport

5G technology is under fire from the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States. The authority in charge of managing air transport in the country has just announced a new safety rule. It prohibits pilots from using automatic landing and other flight assistance systems at low altitudes....

It aims to be different from other airlines: green, eco-responsible, premium. Flying Green is an airline currently in the process of being set up, and is due to take to the skies in 2023, according to the business plan unveiled on 6 December. The carrier is basing its activity on the idea of combining economic performance, a minimal ecological footprint and high-level technical skills....

"Travellers' appetite for long-distance travel has changed forever" is the conclusion, definitive to say the least, drawn by Roland Berger in its latest report. The consultancy estimates that, once the pandemic has passed, the number of personal trips will have fallen by 20 %. As for business...

Perhaps the management of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific will find the appearance of the Omicron variant in the Covid pandemic a positive development. The appearance of this variant was immediately followed by the announcement of a reduction in the carrier's scheduled flights. The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language daily,...

From 8 April, the tarmac at Paris-CDG airport will see more of the shimmering livery of low-cost carrier Volotea. The Spanish airline, based in Barcelona, will be launching up to four flights a week linking the French capital with Verona in Italy. Verona is an important base for Volotea, which serves some twenty destinations, including...

The new variant, called Omicron, is considered dangerous because of its very high number of mutations. Current vaccines may therefore be ineffective against this variant. Speaking to the BBC, Professor Tulio de Oliveira, Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation in South Africa, said that there was a...

The launch of the new Connectair service by Air Transat will enable the Canadian carrier to better conquer markets where it is still absent. Connectair is a virtual interlining platform. Users of this service can combine Air Transat flights with those of partner airlines such as easyJet and Avianca....

Could this be another marketing ploy behind Brussels Airlines' new identity? You would think so when you see that the airline has just rejuvenated the visual appearance of its brand. And yet, this new identity allows the Belgian carrier to identify with what it has become. "We went through a period of...

London-Gatwick, the British capital's second airport with over 46 million passengers in 2019, has always been associated with the national carrier British Airways. Even though since the 2000s the British carrier has gradually lost ground to its low-cost rival easyJet, it has remained a structuring element of the hub...

Finnair is fine-tuning its strategy in view of the possible reopening of Asia in 2022 - and Japan in particular. The airline has begun to unveil its summer programme, with almost 100 destinations in Asia, the United States and Europe from March 2022. Finnair will open new long-haul routes to Busan...

First there was the Airbus A330, which had to return to service last August with Qatar Airways. And now it's the turn of five Airbus A380s to come out of retirement and be reactivated on a number of Qatar Airways routes. An operation that is not being carried out light-heartedly...

It takes between 1h45 and two hours to drive the 170km from Helsinki-Vantaa airport to Turku, Finland's third-largest city. Tampere, Finland's second largest city, takes about the same amount of time for a journey of 175 km. And yet there have always been flights from Helsinki to these...

On the one hand, LATAM, South America's leading carrier, formed from the merger of the former Lan Chile and its subsidiaries (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) with Brazil's TAM. On the other, Azul, now Brazil's second-largest airline and South America's fourth-largest carrier. In 2019, LATAM carried 74 million passengers, Azul...

If not green, the lights are at least orange, if not pale orange, according to OAG. The British consultancy, which specialises in analysing airline schedules and capacity, is analysing the growth in seat volumes in the various traffic segments around the world week after week. According to OAG, the number of seats...

What was the state of air transport in France at the end of September? The good news is that passenger traffic is picking up again and seems to be out of the rut seen between February and April. During this period, traffic was barely 10% of what it was in 2019... September certainly saw a slowdown in the number of...

It has been a long wait for airlines following the Biden administration's announcement in September that they would once again allow vaccinated European travellers to come to the United States. But now it's done. As of November 8, travellers who have been duly vaccinated and who test negative for the Covid virus before departure will be able to travel to the...

ITA has just taken off, with ambitions to become the benchmark airline on the Italian peninsula. It is starting its activity with a limited network and a compact fleet compared to what Alitalia was before the pandemic. For its debut, ITA serves 44 destinations on 59 routes, including the...

The agreement has been signed, but it has taken five years. It was in 2016 that the European Commission received a mandate to negotiate a "comprehensive air transport agreement" with Qatar. Negotiations were due to be concluded in 2019. But the dispute between Spain and the United Kingdom over the management of the airport...

United Airlines announced at the end of last week that it would be making the biggest transatlantic expansion in its history, with 10 new flights and five new destinations. The new destinations to be served from next spring include Amman, Bergen (Norway), the Azores as well as Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife...

It's a timid first step. But a first step nonetheless. With the start of the IATA winter schedules on October 31, Thai Airways International is resuming its international flights from Bangkok. A fleet of 21 long-haul aircraft has been reactivated out of the 38 officially registered. 7 other aircraft...