air transport

French-speaking Europe is particularly well served by British Airways' expansion programme. The airline has just reopened its flights to Brussels and Luxembourg. The Belgian capital is once again served by an average of three daily frequencies since October 1. Since 2 October, Luxembourg has benefited from 11 flights a week, offering a round trip...

At the beginning of September, Swiss was still planning to offer seat capacity equivalent to 50% of that for the 2019/2020 winter season. The second wave of covid-19, which includes new travel and quarantine restrictions, will have decided otherwise. Swiss has just published its winter schedules. And if the carrier...

IATA, ACI-Europe (Airports Council International) and A4E (Airlines for Europe) are calling on the European Union to restore freedom of movement within the continent. Mandatory quarantines in particular are being targeted. As the world enters the final quarter of 2020, the outlook for air transport remains just as mediocre. According to IATA figures,...

Up to 40% of additional flights from December until the beginning of January and 12% of additional capacity from the start of the winter schedules on 25 October: Brussels Airlines is favouring its favourite continent, Africa, in its winter schedules. The continent is an essential element in the Belgian airline's positioning. In...

It's a timid arrival for Vueling on French domestic routes, but it's a symbolic one. IAG's low-cost - or hybrid, depending on your sensibilities - subsidiary has just announced the launch of three domestic routes from Orly. Brest, Montpellier and Marseille will each have two flights a week, on Fridays and Sundays....

To restore a certain degree of normality to air transport, Alexandre de Juniac, Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), explained during a media briefing that all passengers on international routes should be tested for covid-19 before departure. IATA is calling for a rapid solution that is accessible to all....

At the end of last week, Emirates confirmed its return to the French regions for its winter timetable, which begins on 25 October. From December 2, it will be offering four weekly frequencies by Boeing 777-300ER to Lyon instead of the daily flight it operated last year. To Nice, Emirates will be relaunching its...

More than 90 destinations. This is what Qatar Airways will be offering between now and 15 October. This triples the number of cities served compared with April, at the height of the pandemic. The destinations returning to the Qatar Airways network are Amman, Entebbe, Yerevan, Hanoi, the Seychelles and Windhoek. The carrier...

Transavia, Air France's low-cost subsidiary, will be starting its first domestic routes from Orly and Nantes this autumn. On 2 November, Air France's low-cost subsidiary Transavia will take over the Paris Orly-Biarritz route, offering up to three daily frequencies. It will also be taking over four routes from Nantes-Atlantique, offering thirty weekly frequencies....

This comes as a surprise to Italian business circles, particularly in Lombardy. Alitalia, which has been present at Milan-Malpensa since 1948, has announced that it will be leaving the airport as of October with the suspension of its services to Rome-Fiumicino. This route was already a shadow of its former self. Alitalia had been offering only two daily flights since its return...

Rumours had been circulating since last week that thermal temperature measurement centres would be closed at the 15 US airports designated since March as international gateways for airlines. This measure was confirmed at the end of last week by the White House and the agencies active in...

While Alitalia is due to announce the details of its restructuring in October, the airline is announcing that it will be stepping up its flights to Rome Fiumicino, its main hub, as well as to Milan-Linate. This will be to the detriment of Milan-Malpensa airport, the intercontinental hub of the Italian business capital. The move came as a surprise to Italian business circles, particularly the...

Six months. It took six months for China to partially lift the ban on foreign travellers entering the country, with all the restrictions lifted for the type of traveller. So, for the past week, it has once again been possible to travel directly to Beijing. A real event,...

The world continues to dream of creating faster, more comfortable and, above all, more environmentally friendly aircraft. Supported by the Dutch airline KLM and the TU Delft, the Flying-V, a long-haul, highly energy-efficient aircraft, has made its first test flight. A success for the two protagonists behind the project. [link-block prefix="A...

The reopening of Paris-Orly airport at the end of June means that Air France is gradually returning to the southern Paris hub. Alongside its main hub at Roissy CDG, the airline now serves around twenty destinations from Orly. For the time being, the network is purely domestic, and includes the services of "La...

The debate raged a few months ago at the start of the pandemic. Should the middle seat in economy class cabins be blocked in order to maintain sufficient sanitary standards? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) raised the issue in April, but changed its mind in May. At a briefing,...

The United Kingdom's sudden decision to re-introduce compulsory quarantine for travellers to several European Union countries within a matter of hours has further dampened hopes of a return to normal traffic flows. The decision was justified by the upsurge in cases of coronavirus in certain parts of these countries. The UK's Department for...

It was an election with the flavour of a plebiscite. With a turnout of 82.63% and 90.37% in favour, the SNPL, the majority union of Air France pilots, finally validated on 12 August the plan to reorganise the domestic network proposed by the management of the Air France-KLM group, after months of negotiations....