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Brussels Airlines has just unveiled its summer 2027 schedule. Cairo is the main new addition. The first flight will depart from Brussels on Monday, March 29, 2027, with five rotations per week according to two schedules. On Mondays and Saturdays, SN3323 will leave Brussels at 10 a.m. for an arrival in Cairo at 2…

Air Canada unveiled Embarq in early October. The platform integrates with its Air Canada corporate offering. It brings together travel management, tracking, and loyalty benefits in a single tool. Travelers book directly on aircanada.com, and the company automatically assigns eligible trips to their company. Registration is open to…

The oneworld alliance officially announced the return of its MICE offering on October 13, at the IMEX trade show in Las Vegas. The offer is aimed at event organizers. It gives them access to preferential rates on the 15 member airlines of the alliance, which serve nearly 1,000 destinations. The scope is wide: business meetings, conferences…

The horizon is tinged with red for the French aviation sector. Last August, at the height of the summer season, passenger traffic fell by 1 % vs August 2025, and even more so for international flights (-1.4 %) and -3.5 % for Parisian airports. The end of summer is not…

Air France is renewing the catering offer for its three premium cabins on long-haul flights departing from Paris. Six signature French cuisine dishes are featured on the menus of La Première, Business and Premium. The chefs work with the Servair Culinary Studio, an airline catering subsidiary and…

«An obscure subject, but one that is beginning to be brought to light»: Christine Arrighi, Green MP for Haute-Garonne and co-chair of the Aeronautics and Space group in the National Assembly, sums up everything about aviation contrails. Indeed, while sustainable fuels or new generations of aircraft have long been seen as the primary drivers...

With the imminent arrival of a third aircraft, La Compagnie is continuing to expand whilst prioritising targeted growth. The French airline, which specialises in transatlantic business-class flights, will launch a new route between New York and Düsseldorf, capitalising on the economic potential of North Rhine-Westphalia and targeting both business and leisure travellers. Christian…

The IFTM Top Résa trade fair provides an opportunity to look back at the major trends in business travel. Featuring barometers, including Kactus’s, which takes the pulse of the seminars activity, and EPSA’s, which has analysed the state of the sector for the 16th time. It points to a positive outlook, with spending expected to reach a new record in...

The French market remains relatively robust. How is business travel evolving more precisely? Nadia Azalé - Business travel behaviour is quite different from that of leisure travel. We are seeing very strong performance across several business travel segments. In a complex geopolitical context, Premium cabins are holding up well. The...

Hotel groups and airlines are closely managing the relationships between their loyalty programmes. At the same time as Hyatt was announcing a partner change across the Atlantic, switching from American Airlines to Delta, IHG and Air India on the one hand, and Radisson and Finnair on the other, were announcing their new partnerships. Is it a reminder of its Nordic origins? The Radisson group,…

As the last few days have shown once again, air transport is at the mercy of natural hazards as well as technological or human failures. The eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia on Sunday 6 September disrupted Asian skies, certainly to a lesser extent than the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland had done and the most...

A change of direction for Hyatt's loyalty programme. The American group has just announced a long-term partnership with Delta Air Lines, which will allow members of both programmes to earn both World of Hyatt points and Delta SkyMiles. This coming together also brings an end to...

United unveiled, back-to-back on the 1st and 2nd of September, two digital innovations designed to streamline the journey for rushed travellers. The first relates to the management of flight disruptions, the second to waiting times between flights. Together, they target the same audience: frequent flyers accustomed to tight connections. The...

Manual or electric wheelchairs, walking frames, hoists, adapted sports equipment: this equipment accompanies the disabled traveller at every stage of their journey. For Megan Hines, chair of Air Canada’s Accessibility Advisory Committee, they are «an extension of our bodies» rather than extra baggage. This distinction is at the heart of...

The buyout of easyJet by Apollo Global Management opens a new chapter for one of Europe's leading low-cost airlines. Indeed, easyJet accepted the offer of approximately £5.7 billion (roughly €6.5 billion) made by the American fund Apollo on August 6th, following the withdrawal of its competitor Castlelake. The offer values each easyJet share at £7.15…

In turn, Australia is turning the page on the paper arrival card. The country is indeed speeding up the digitalization of its entry procedures by integrating a fully digital Australia Travel Declaration (ATD). As in most countries that have adopted electronic declarations, the system is designed to streamline checks...

Good news for the many travellers heading to Morocco for business or sunshine: boarding passes will – gradually – become standard in the country's major airports. The National Airports Office (ONDA), the public body that manages all the country's airports, announced this at the end of July...

Air Congo launched its first flight to a European airport at the beginning of July, inaugurating the Brussels-Kinshasa route. The national airline is already aiming higher with this announcement, officialised on X on August 1st: "We are proud to announce the opening of our new destination, Kinshasa – Paris, a connection that..."

We will have to wait until next November 20th to see easyJet connect Alsace with a new European destination – but bookings are already open. The low-cost airline announced on Thursday that it will be heading to Bristol for the winter. Two flights per week will be operated by easyJet, on Mondays and Fridays. Bristol thus becomes the eleventh destination…

This is a strong signal sent to business customers who regularly cross the Atlantic to reach Mexico: less than three months after its inauguration, the Paris CDG-Monterrey flight is taking on a new dimension. Aeromexico has just made official the transition from a seasonal flight to a year-round service. Barely has the page turned on a World Cup from which Monterrey...