air transport

The brand new Airbus A220-300, which the airline is particularly proud of for its environmental performance and comfort, will serve nine destinations this winter. This is according to the first announcements for the French carrier's 2021/2022 winter schedule. From 31 October, Air France will introduce the aircraft on routes...

Vueling should be able to launch nine daily return flights from Orly after receiving all 18 slots released by Air France in exchange for the European Commission's green light for its recapitalisation. New routes should begin operating from November. Vueling is already the third largest airline operator at Paris Orly...

The first route operated by Norwegian airline Flyr will connect Oslo-Gardermoen to Paris CDG on 14 October. Services to Copenhagen (CPH) and Rome Fiumicino (FCO) will begin one day later. Each of these three new routes will be operated twice weekly by Boeing 737-800. Launched on 30 June, Flyr already serves Nice to...

According to statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation, US scheduled passenger airlines reported a net profit after tax of $1 billion in the second quarter of 2021. A significant improvement despite a pre-tax operating loss of $3.6 billion. The second-quarter results represent the first profit since...

Eurocontrol, the body in charge of coordinating flights in Europe, has just published its latest report on air activity on the continent. And there is good news for airlines. In August, flights were back to 71% of 2019 levels across Europe. However, this average conceals a wide variation between countries...

This is confirmed almost daily. Air travel in Europe is picking up with the acceleration of vaccination. Travellers in possession of the precious sesame that is a vaccination are increasingly authorised to travel. This is good news for Finnair, whose traffic in Helsinki is largely made up of...

Munich airport authorities are smiling again. The autumn/winter 2021 season is shaping up very favourably with the return of many airlines and the rise of Lufthansa. In total, the airport will be linked again this September to 170 destinations, representing 80% of its pre-Covid network. At intercontinental level,...

September 11 2001 was a staggering event for the world. Anyone who lived through the event will remember the staggering, surreal images of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the devastation that followed. According to the Director General of IATA, Willie Walsh, as the...

ASL Airlines is resuming services to Algeria. These services were suspended during the covid-19 crisis. ASL Airlines France has just announced that the Algerian authorities have approved the resumption of the airline's scheduled flights between France and Algeria. The carrier resumed its service between Paris Charles de Gaulle and...

A new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the Department of Health of the Federated State of Georgia and Delta Air Lines has analysed passenger data on Delta flights with pre-flight Covid testing between New York-JFK, Atlanta and Rome-Fiumicino. It shows that the risk of exposure to Covid-19 on board an aircraft...

Keidanren, the very powerful and normally influential Federation of Japanese Business, sounded the alarm on Monday 6 September. The Japanese economy is weakening faster than it appears due to the isolation of the archipelago. On that day, the Keidanren presented a series of proposals aimed at normalising the country's economic activity. A pressing request at a time when...

It operates just over 20% of its pre-2019 flight volume to yet 70% of its destination network... This is Philippine Airlines, which continues to suffer from the almost total closure of the Philippines' borders since the covid pandemic in 2020. And last weekend, it submitted an application...

Following in the footsteps of its parent company Lufthansa, Swiss is launching a new business class catering concept. From September 1 and for the next six months, Swiss International Air Lines will be treating passengers on its long-haul flights from Switzerland to a selection of dishes prepared by Swiss chefs.

Pure chance? Probably not. Last April, Qatar Airways announced the launch in June of three weekly flights between Doha and Abidjan by Boeing 787, inaugurating its fourth route since the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The Qatari carrier also took the opportunity to sign an interline agreement with local carrier Air Côte d'Ivoire....

In July, passenger growth, expressed in RPK (revenue/passenger/km), was up by almost 130% on last year, according to the latest official figures from IATA. But the statistics can be misleading. After all, this growth is still at half-mast compared with 2019. The improvement is certainly visible compared with the first few months of...

Several years of unsuccessful restructuring and the coronavirus epidemic seemed to have taken their toll on the national carrier South African Airways. The carrier entered receivership in December 2019 and officially suspended all its flights in September 2020. The main reason for this was a total lack of cash. Last April, however, the company finally received the...

Ciao Alitalia! On August 18, the Italian civil aviation authority ENAC officially gave the green light to ITA (Italia Trasporto Aereo) to operate airlines and sell tickets. ENAC has granted an air operator's certificate to the new entity, which replaces Alitalia. Alitalia has also announced that it will stop selling...

As the pandemic epidemic continues to have its ups and downs, there is still total uncertainty about the conditions for entry into all countries. Hence Air France's decision to extend the conditions for total flexibility on its flight tickets. As part of its Air France Protect programme, the airline is allowing passengers to change their flight...

It has finally happened. At the end of last week, Air Austral made its first flight in a brand new Airbus A220-300. On 18 August, the aircraft connected Saint-Denis de la Réunion with the island of Mayotte. This is the first scheduled service between the two French departments in the Indian Ocean to welcome...

It's a modest return, but a return all the same. Since 20 August, Canadian carrier Westjet has been offering a weekly flight between Calgary - the capital of the province of Alberta - and Paris CDG. Every Sunday until the end of October, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner will fly between the two cities. The Westjet Dreamliner offers...