air transport

Aer Lingus has confirmed that its new regional subsidiary, Aer Lingus Regional, will commence operations on 17 March. The airline will specialise in routes between Ireland and Great Britain. The launch is more than 10 months ahead of schedule. The aircraft,...

Neither Paris nor Frankfurt in continental Europe. Australian carrier Qantas has finally chosen Rome as its sole destination in the European Union. A city that will be added to its existing service from London Heathrow. Rome was chosen because of the strong demand from the Australian diaspora for flights to and from Australia. And also because...

According to consultant OAG, air capacity rose slightly in the week to 13 December. It rose by 3.8 % week-on-week to 81.4 million seats declared. However, capacity in terms of seats is still 26.21 % lower than in 2019. OAG notes that the Omicron variant does not...

Since mid-December, passengers have been able to book their flights to Africa on Brussels Airlines. The airline is offering more intercontinental flights for next summer. This increase in capacity is accompanied by the entry into service of a ninth Airbus A330. Commenting on the reinstatement of this ninth aircraft, the CEO of Brussels...

The Lufthansa Group's route between Rennes and Frankfurt is good news for the French market. It gives Lufthansa an eleventh regular destination in France. The German airline already serves the airports of Paris CDG and Orly, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Mulhouse-Basle, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg and Toulouse...

Saturday 11 December marked the return of Air Canada to Lyon, after an absence of exactly 634 days. This absence was obviously due to the Covid pandemic. An Airbus A330-300 landed at Lyon Saint-Exupéry at exactly 8.14am after a flight lasting 6 hours and 21 minutes. This return was eagerly awaited...

While Hong Kong International Airport has always been a major global hub, with flights from all over the world, the covid pandemic is decimating the airport. And it is losing its status as a global airport. Hong Kong International welcomed 71.54 million passengers in 2019. In 2020, the hub welcomed a further 8.8 million passengers...

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...