air transport

The inability to reopen Bahrain Airport in the short term, due to the war in the Gulf, prolongs Gulf Air's temporary offer of flights departing from Dammam International Airport in Saudi Arabia. The third busiest airport in the Saudi kingdom, with over 13 million passengers in 2025, is indeed…

Air Canada is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its France-Canada operations, marking over seven decades of continuous connection between Paris and Montreal – a historic route that remains one of the airline's transatlantic network pillars today. Air Canada first launched its services to France on 1st April…

This year American Airlines is celebrating a double anniversary: the first is its centenary, which will officially be launched on April 15th. The second is the 250th anniversary of the United States. America250, the organisation tasked by Congress with piloting the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has in fact selected American…

The Reuters news agency reports that Vietnamese authorities have asked the national aviation sector to prepare for potential flight reductions from April. This unprecedented situation stems from restrictions on aviation fuel exports now being imposed by China and Thailand due to the conflict in Iran. The two countries are giving…

The attack on Iran by Israel and the United States could not remain without consequences for air transport. Air fares have risen sharply, as a result of three factors: The drastic reduction in the number of flights available from the major Gulf hubs (Bahrain and Kuwait remain completely closed, while Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai are operating...

Uganda Airlines, the national carrier, has been going through a period of financial turbulence for several years, which has resulted in difficulties in maintaining its fleet. Proof of this is the grounding of its two long-haul Airbus A330-800 aircraft for "unscheduled maintenance", the first in mid-January and the second at the end of February. The two aircraft will enable...

For years, the Gulf airlines have used their global hubs strategy to take some of their Asian traffic from European carriers. And vice versa. But now the war in the Gulf, with Iran regularly attacking its neighbours, has shaken - temporarily, it seems - the balance of power.

Air Tahiti Nui is continuing its expansion in the Pacific. The airline, which already serves Auckland in New Zealand from Papeete, has announced the opening of a new direct route between Papeete and Sydney (PPT-SYD). This new route is part of the airline's strategy to strengthen French Polynesia's long-term connectivity with the rest of the world.

The launch by the United States and Israel of large-scale attacks against Iran has had an immediate consequence for all travellers: the dislocation of the Persian Gulf as the world's hub. While airlines had decided a few weeks ago to temporarily suspend some of their routes for security reasons...

There are hints of the Soviet Union in the United States. As in Stalin's time, when cities, schools and public squares were named after the "Little Father of the People", the American administration is toying with the idea of renaming certain institutions and infrastructures after the "greatest American president of all time", to use the terminology in vogue in...

The BDL - Bundesverband der Deutschen Luftverkehrswirtschaft (Federation of the German Air Transport Industry) - has just published its annual review of German air transport. It's a gloomy assessment, even if there are signs of a timid recovery. The findings are bitter indeed. According to Joachim Lang, Managing Director of the BDL,...

Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary is now being deployed in Frankfurt, after Munich. The carrier launched the first flights of its City Line subsidiary on 10 February from its main hub, complementing its Munich base. The latter was inaugurated in the summer of 2024. Lufthansa City Line is stationing 13 aircraft there, having...

Protests are growing over one of the most decried open skies agreements since the European Union: the one signed in 2021 with Qatar, which allows the airlines of both political entities to serve any airline linking Doha to the European Union and vice versa. Except that the signing and application of the agreement...

Turbulence ahead at Lufthansa: the German airline will have to deal with a major last-minute strike this Thursday 12 July. The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) launched its call on Tuesday. And according to its leaders, "This industrial action will disrupt all flights departing from German airports between 00:01 and...

The Cuban authorities issued a warning on Monday 9 February. There is no more paraffin at Havana international airport in Cuba. This situation is expected to last for at least a month. And it is forcing the airline industry to take action to find alternative solutions. The energy crisis, present since 2025 with the...

It's a winter storm of the kind rarely experienced in the United States, which nevertheless experiences major snowfalls every year. Covering some 3,000 km from Nevada and southern Texas to the Canadian border, this storm is as exceptional in its size as it is in its scope. An episode the likes of which have not been seen since...

Growth, yes, but anaemic growth compared with the rest of the world. This can be seen from the results of the airports managed by the Vinci group in France compared with the rest of the world. This clearly confirms that the French aviation dynamic has been broken since the increase in air taxes in 2025. Air transport...

The agreement between Air Tahiti and Air Tahiti Nui, signed on 22 December 2025, marks an important step in the strengthening of services to the Pacific islands. The aim is to simplify travel for international passengers, initially to Bora Bora and Rarotonga. From 2 June 2026, Air Tahiti will be offering...

The future of African air transport will be built 40 km south of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. This is where the future Bishoftu International Airport (BIA) will be built, the hub of Ethiopian Airlines, already Africa's leading airline with 19 million passengers and 150 destinations. The hub will be built...

Aer Lingus is preparing to turn the page in Manchester. The Irish airline has confirmed that it will be ceasing long-haul operations from the British airport, a major European hub. Manchester is expected to welcome more than 32 million passengers by 2025, and is linked to around ten cities in...