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These flights will be a bit like flying in a private club. British Airways is launching a series of flights exclusively for members of its Executive Club frequent flyer programme. 100% of the seats offered can only be paid for with "avios", points collected on the airline through its FFP. The first...

Royal Air Maroc is expecting an excellent summer season as travel conditions normalise. The Moroccan national carrier says it is experiencing "strong demand for its flights, in a buoyant context marked by a good recovery in business and tourist travel". RAM's ramp-up over the summer is reflected...

The Arabian Travel Market is definitely going business class. Alongside the presentation of a new Business cabin by Etihad, flydubai also made a name for itself at the Dubai show. On 1 May, the airline also unveiled a new Business cabin. The Business Suite will feature a brand new seat designed by Safran Seats and JPA Design,...

In the face of increasingly fierce competition, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways are stepping up their joint services from New York. The two carriers are offering their "Northeast Alliance" from the three New York airports of JFK, La Guardia and Newark. The La Guardia hub, however, is the first to benefit from the new...

The airline easyJet has commissioned a report from travel experts outlining what travel might be like in 50 years' time, in 2070. The report, entitled "easyJet 2070: the travel report of the future", was written by a group of leading academics and futurists, including Professor Birgitte Andersen...

As the French market prepares for the warmer weather, Transavia is looking ahead to the winter season. Air France's low-cost subsidiary announced a number of new services on Wednesday. And business travellers will benefit from a reinforced offer on the France-Senegal route. From 31 October, Transavia will be operating on the Bordeaux-Dakar route. Two new...

If there is one airline in the world that is particularly suffering from a hostile political and economic environment, it is Finnair. The Finnish airline had built its success on a niche positioning, linking Europe and Asia. But three years of Covid have affected traffic in Asia. Not least because of the bans on...

Are we heading for the demise of another national airline? There is every reason to believe so in Malta. The management of Air Malta has been a disaster for over a decade. Several local newspapers have reported senior government officials talking about a likely refusal by the European Union to provide further aid...

Refinement and conviviality: this is the promise made by Swiss to mark the reopening of its non-Schengen lounge at Zurich airport. Located in the airport's transit zone in terminal D, the redesigned lounge covers 650 m². Enough space to subdivide the lounge...

Since 26 March, KLM has also been on summer time with a new flight schedule. Nantes is one of the destinations benefiting from this reorganisation. Building on the success of its winter service to Amsterdam, Nantes airport has been selected for the summer programme. Three daily flights will be operated...

Since 26 March, Norse Atlantic has officially been a new option for business travellers on the Paris-New York route. Despite a turbulent social climate, with repeated strikes in France, the UK and Germany, Norse Atlantic has officially celebrated its first flight between Paris-CDG and JFK....

2022 ended rather well for US airlines. According to statistics from the US Department of Transportation (DOT), US carriers carried 853 million passengers, compared with 658 million the previous year. This represents a year-on-year increase of 30%, equivalent to 194 million more passengers. With this result, the...

There was already Lufthansa, and there was also Eurowings. And now a third German airline, a subsidiary of the group, is taking shape at Munich airport: City Airlines. The project, launched in May 2022, includes 40 Airbus A319 aircraft for this airline, which will operate point-to-point services from the capital...

Air France is returning to a similar schedule of services this summer as in 2019. The airline is responding to strong passenger demand and will be offering up to 835 flights a day to 191 destinations in 89 countries from the end of March. This development particularly concerns long-haul, with 85 destinations. The reopening of...

JetBlue's ambitions for Paris are taking shape. After ticking off Charles de Gaulle on its roadmap at the end of last year, the American airline has just launched ticket sales. It has also announced its arrival in France. JetBlue will be landing in Paris on 29 June. That's just under...

Continuing its fleet and network expansion strategy, Oman Air has unveiled its summer schedule for 2023. The programme includes significant frequency increases on existing routes and the addition of four destinations, all in the Indian sub-continent. The new frequencies and destinations represent an increase of 60 % in the number of...

Brussels Airlines closed 2022 with a loss of 74.1 million euros. However, this represents an improvement of 115 million euros on the previous year. With a more competitive structure, Brussels Airlines is looking to the future with greater optimism. The company is therefore resuming growth in the fleet and recruitment. If the...

The Lufthansa group is looking for renewal. Following in the footsteps of its eponymous airline, which recently presented the Allegris project, it is now Swiss's turn to adorn itself in new finery. The Swiss Senses collection was unveiled at the beginning of March. Aimed at the long-haul network, it will cover three classes of travel: the...

The countdown is on for Norse Atlantic's arrival on the French market. At the end of the month, on 26 March to be exact, the new low-cost airline will land at Paris-CDG airport. It will operate a daily service to New York JFK. But it is on the other side of the Channel that Norse...

Canada's skies are turning to facial recognition. And it is the national carrier Air Canada that is leading the way with this innovation, designed to make the passenger experience smoother. The airline unveiled this pilot project on 21 February. For the time being, the experiment is limited to Vancouver International Airport. And it does not concern...