air transport

What are the key points of the Air Transport IT Insights 2021 report published by SITA? Sergio Colella - This report shows that Covid is playing a role in accelerating digitalisation. We see this in our everyday lives, and inevitably in the air transport sector. For almost ten years now, we have been interviewing...

Volotea is announcing historic growth in its offer in Europe in 2022, with 39% more seats, 45 new routes and almost 70,000 flights. In total, Volotea will offer 11 million seats in Europe, far surpassing 2019's record of 8.5 million seats. Volotea also plans to carry...

The service to Miami will follow the resumption of daily flights to Dublin-San Francisco on 25 February. Then Los Angeles on 12 May and Seattle on 26 May. All in all, Aer Lingus will be offering non-stop flights to New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orlando, Philadelphia and Washington DC this summer. The advantage of...

Finnair's Premium Economy cabin will be launched this spring. It will offer a choice of comfortable seats with around 50 % more space than Economy. The new class is housed in its own intimate, dedicated cabin. It will accommodate a maximum of 26 passengers. The Finnish airline is the launch customer...

SAS is strengthening its North American network with Toronto, its only destination in Canada. The Scandinavian carrier is launching three flights a week from Copenhagen and four times a week from Stockholm Arlanda. The routes will be operated by an Airbus A321LR in a three-class configuration with a total capacity of 157...

Since the reopening of the American borders in November 2021, Air France has been gradually strengthening its service to the United States, the airline's leading long-haul destination in terms of the number of seats offered. Air France currently serves 11 destinations in the United States (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York JFK, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington D.C.). The offer between...

On 25 January, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) drew up a report on the year 2021 for air travel worldwide. Traffic actually picked up between 2020 and 2021. IATA notes that passenger demand, expressed in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), fell by 58.4 % compared with 2019....

Vueling has confirmed its growth at its Orly base this summer. The low-cost airline, a subsidiary of the IAG group, has significantly increased its presence with the recovery of Air France slots at the airport. It is now the second largest international carrier from the Paris hub. It follows Transavia (75 destinations) and remains far...

For the past fortnight or so, the Italian press has been buzzing with rumours about a future partner for Italy's national airline ITA. ITA, which rose from the ashes of the former Alitalia, took off in October. But it knows from the outset that it has little chance of surviving on its own in a domestic and European market...

United Airlines has just revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2021. The American carrier indicates that it has achieved its main financial targets. The company has reduced its losses to 1.96 billion dollars after tax compared with 7.1 billion in 2020. However, United has received more than...

Iceland's national airline Icelandair is beginning to unveil its summer programme. The carrier will be launching two weekly flights between Keflavik international airport and Nice on 6 July. The flights will run every Wednesday and Saturday until 27 August. In addition to the Nice service, the airline is planning seasonal summer routes to...

Last week, the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) published the country's new five-year air transport development plan. The plan sets the tone for the development of the aviation sector throughout 2022. Indeed, the air transport regulator has indicated that China will...

It is already the third busiest international airport in Texas after Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Austin Bergstrom International Airport is the air gateway to the Texan capital, with traffic expected to exceed 12.5 million passengers again in 2021. And it is increasingly coveted by...

Air traffic is continuing to recover, according to consultant OAG, which works on airline seat capacity. At the end of 2021, capacity was down by 35% compared with December 2019. That is 5.7 billion seats compared with 8.7 billion at the end of 2019. On the other hand, the recovery is being confirmed, particularly with...

Are you allowed to eat while travelling or not? This is not such a trivial question, following the government's announcement at the end of last week that it would be forbidden to eat food on board trains. Especially on long journeys. Before taking a plane or a train, will we have to hurry up and gobble down some food?

Twin Jet is continuing its coverage of the French regions with the resumption of the Marseille-Toulouse route on 17 January. This will be the fourth destination to be served from Marseille. Targeting business customers, Twin Jet will be offering 5 direct return flights a week between the two cities. Flight times will be just one hour. The flights will...

Aer Lingus is gearing up for the sales and has decided to offer up to 20% discount on travel between France and Ireland. What's more, the airline's 'Book with Confidence' policy allows customers to change flights as often as they like, should they need to, so they can book with complete peace of mind.The 'Book with Confidence' policy allows customers to change flights as often as they like, should they need to, so they can book with complete peace of mind.The 'Book with Confidence' policy...

The demise of India's Jet Airways more than two years ago left a gaping hole for the Franco-Dutch group Air France-KLM. With flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore from Paris and Amsterdam, the two airlines had access to a network of over fifty destinations. The new...

ACI Europe, the European airports association, has published the first preliminary data on the impact of the Omicron variant on European passenger traffic. Following South Africa's public announcement of the new variant to the WHO, it is estimated that in the 3-week period that followed (weeks 47 to 49), passenger traffic in...

EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic have just announced that the "Worldwide by easyJet" online platform now includes Manchester. This will enable passengers on both airlines to benefit from connections on the North Atlantic. Customers travelling from Europe with easyJet will benefit from Virgin Atlantic flights from the UK airport. This partnership will increase...