air transport

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...

On Friday 15 October, the White House decided to finally lift all travel restrictions linked to covid-19 for fully vaccinated international visitors from 8 November. This decision puts an end to a historic travel ban in the country's recent history. The United States had kept its borders virtually sealed for 21...

A week ago, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published the results of a survey. Carried out among 4,700 people in 11 countries in September, the survey shows that passengers are generally weary of the restrictions still in force on air travel. But there is one important point concerning vaccination. It is true that...

From Paris-Orly, Transavia is already showing its colours for this summer. From 27 March 2022, several new routes will be added to the network from the Air France low-cost subsidiary's main French base. For the moment, these are routes to Bilbao, La Palma, the Azores (Ponta Delgada), Yerevan, Glasgow, Ljubljana, Podgorica and Skiathos...

"The customer and sustainable development". These were the two terms used by Henri de Peyrelongue, Executive Vice President Commercial Sales Air France-KLM during a presentation at the IFTM Top Resa tourism trade show. "Air France has prepared for this difficult period. We have continued to invest to maintain our entire network. We have also shown ourselves to be...

Italian carrier ITA is in the starting-block, with its first flights scheduled for 15 October. And even before it takes off, the company has already confirmed an initial option to lease and acquire new aircraft. ITA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus for 28 aircraft and with Airbus for...