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It seems that the Airbus A380 has had a long life at Air France. The new management, led by Benjamin Smith, the new CEO, has announced that the airline will be reducing its A380 fleet by 50 %s, from 10 to 5 aircraft. The first two aircraft will be returned to their original...

At dawn on Friday morning, Singapore Airlines' A350-900ULR touched down at Newark airport in New York. This was the culmination of a 17-hour 52-minute flight, making it the world's longest commercial flight. "Singapore Airlines is proud to present the world's longest commercial flights with the new A350-900ULR and we are delighted to be able to...

The announcement that Airbus would be changing the name of Bombardier's C Series aircraft was made back in April, but it has now come to fruition at the Farnborough Air Show in the UK. The C Series 100 and 300 will officially become the Airbus A220-100 and A220-300. This marks the start of a new chapter for the...

On 11 October, Singapore Airlines will be operating the world's longest commercial flight. The airline confirmed this on 30 May when it announced the return of the Singapore-Newark (New York) route. The 16,700 km journey will take 18 hours and 45 minutes. The current record holder, Qatar Airways, had distinguished itself a few months earlier by carrying...

Stars of the digital world - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Satay Nadella (Microsoft), Gini Rometty (IBM), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber) -, welcoming Pepper robots and a myriad of start-ups involved in artificial intelligence or connected objects: organised for the third time at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre by Publicis and Les Echos, this...

At the launch of Joon, Jean-Marc Janaillac, CEO of Air France-KLM, surprised everyone by mentioning the possibility of creating couchettes in the holds for economy class passengers. In any case, the aircraft manufacturer has now made no secret of this revolutionary idea....

Taking to the skies and overtaking the cars playing touch-and-go for miles on end: that's the dream of every traveller fed up with endless traffic jams. Several big names in aeronautics, not least Boeing and Airbus, are seriously considering turning this dream into reality. And they're doing it now...

We will have to wait a week to discover the new quad-class cabin (Suites, Business Class, Premium Economy and Economy Class) to be fitted on Singapore Airlines' Airbus A380s. The airline has scheduled a worldwide presentation in Singapore from 2 to 4 November. For the time being, we already know the first destination served by this brand new equipment...

Since July, Paris is the fifth destination to welcome an Etihad A380 after London, Melbourne, New York and Sydney. The introduction of the A380 on the Abu Dhabi-Paris route will make it possible to offer a seamless end-to-end product between France and Australia, for example. Above all, it will introduce new products...

As the Paris Air Show opened its doors at Le Bourget on 19 June, Airbus predicts that the fleet of aircraft with more than 100 seats will double over the next twenty years to more than 40,000 aircraft. This would represent the replacement of nearly 35,000 aircraft. Boeing is more generous...

An Air Caraïbes aircraft carrying nearly 200 passengers on a Paris-Toulouse flight: the rather surprising scene took place on 1 March at Orly airport. However, there was no declaration of war against Hop! Perhaps just a thumbing of the nose at its parent company Air France... In fact, it was...

What does the arrival of this A350 in the Air Caraïbes livery mean for passengers? Marc Rochet - For Air Caraïbes customers, it guarantees a level of comfort linked to the technology of this aircraft: the A350 is much quieter, cabin pressurisation is less tiring, and cabin air renewal is greater. This can be felt on...

As the launch airline for the Airbus A320neo, Lufthansa took delivery of its fifth new-generation aircraft at the end of December. The German airline has positioned this more fuel-efficient and quieter aircraft on its domestic routes from Frankfurt as well as on several European routes, notably to Oslo, Stockholm and Barcelona. A further ten of these single-aisle aircraft...

Thai Airways International took delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 at the end of August. Its objective is to operate its Australian routes from Bangkok. Except that the Australian civil aviation authorities have still not given the go-ahead for the A350 to enter service on the daily Bangkok-Melbourne flight. As a result...

The new Airbus A330-200 taken delivery of by Iberia at the end of December stands out not only for its energy efficiency and take-off power, but also - and business travellers will appreciate this - for its accelerated Wi-Fi connectivity at 30,000 feet. In all, the Spanish carrier has ordered 29 new aircraft to strengthen and rejuvenate its long-haul fleet, including thirteen...