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(Article updated on 28/02) Azul is Brazil's third largest airline on domestic routes, accounting for 25% of all airlines in the country. It is now turning its attention to the international market. From its base at Sao Paulo Viracopos International (Campinas), the carrier flies to Florida, Uruguay and...

Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. These are the two new destinations that Delta Air Lines will be launching next winter from New York JFK. These routes will also connect with Delta's network to Europe. American airlines close to Covid forward performance The flight to Buenos Aires will start on...

The Meloni government had made no secret of its hostility to Air France-KLM taking a stake in ITA, the successor airline to Alitalia. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government considered the rival proposal from the Lufthansa group to be more credible. An initial agreement between Lufthansa and ITA is expected by mid-March...

Singapore Airlines' Business Class is getting a new lease of life when it comes to connectivity. The airline announced on 1 February that it was opening up free and unlimited access to passengers travelling in Busines Class. This also applies to PPS Club members. Until now, the connectivity offered to these passengers was limited to 100 MB....

Flybe or not flybe? That's no longer the question since the British airline ceased operations. Before the covid crisis, Flybe was the UK's largest regional carrier. It was even the main carrier to Birmingham, Belfast City Airport, Exeter and Southampton. During its glory years, Flybe operated...

After London, Oslo and Berlin, and now Paris, Norse Atlantic's European network is taking shape week by week. And it's adding more business destinations in the process. The latest announcement, Rome Fiumicino airport, was made official by the low-cost carrier on 24 January. Norse Atlantic Airways arrives at Paris-CDG, Delta leaves for Nice...

While the future of Italian carrier ITA Airways may be moving away from the Air France fold, another key player in French tourism, Accor, is forging closer links with the transalpine carrier. From 26 January, the two airlines' frequent flyer programmes will offer a two-way conversion service. Under this scheme, all points...

The lifting of travel restrictions and the resumption of business traffic are encouraging Asian airlines to resume their flights to Europe. Many of them had disappeared with the outbreak of the Covid virus. Japanese carrier ANA has just announced that it is continuing to rebuild its international network. The airline is taking over the...

Business travellers in Marseille will soon be able to fly direct to a new European business destination. Air Serbia will be positioning itself on the Marseille-Belgrade route. The Serbian national airline - in which Etihad has a 18% stake - has scheduled its arrival at Marseille airport for 20 May. Marseille...

As air transport began to recover in April 2022 with the gradual reopening of borders, many experts were sounding the alarm about traffic management. Because of the pandemic, airports and airlines were downsizing due to the halt in activity. Whether through lack of foresight or over-optimism, the sector has not...

ITA Airways is continuing its intercontinental expansion. After setting out at the end of the year to conquer New Delhi, and with new routes opening up in the United States, in Washington and San Francisco, the Italian carrier is now setting its sights on Latin America. Already present in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, ITA Airways will link Rome Fiumicino to Rio de Janeiro...

"At work, at home and everywhere in between, connectivity is essential to everyday life, and a trip on Delta should be no different": this is the credo of Ed Bastian, CEO of the American company, speaking at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. An ambition...

What direction would you like to give the FNAM as its new Chairman? Pascal de Izaguirre - Broadly speaking, the airline industry is facing two main challenges today: a geopolitical and economic crisis, and the necessary ecological transition. I'm going to work hard to ensure that the FNAM is in a position to come up with credible solutions to...

Lufthansa will continue to densify its network in summer 2023 by adding seven destinations in Europe from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs. In total, the German airline will offer more than 205 destinations worldwide, almost as many as before the coronavirus pandemic. With 5,200 weekly frequencies, the number of routes from...

The Delta Sky Club is experiencing record attendance this year. Faced with lounges that are often packed to the rafters, Delta has decided to change some of the conditions of access to the Clubs. This measure will take effect from 2023. Delta explains that it wants to preserve the exclusivity of its lounges. "It is extremely important to us that the Sky...

Modernising their fleets with more fuel-efficient aircraft on the one hand, and supplying SAF, or sustainable aviation fuel, on the other: airlines are currently relying on these two pillars to accelerate their decarbonisation. But the sector has a third lever as part of its energy transition: the advent of a new, more sustainable form of...

A few days after seeing its carbon emission reduction targets validated by the SBTi initiative - i.e. -30% by 2030 - , Air France-KLM is continuing its momentum with the announcement of an order for sustainable aviation fuel from TotalEnergies, adding to previous orders placed at the end of October with Neste and DG...

As recently announced, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will continue to expand its services next summer, offering its customers a wide and varied range of flights. The company's top priority remains the stability of its services. Swiss plans to offer around 85 % of 2019 capacity by summer 2023. From Geneva, Swiss will expand its...

After London, Berlin and its Oslo base, Paris will soon become the fourth destination linked to New York by Norse Atlantic. The young low-cost airline has just made it official on Wednesday that tickets will go on sale, and has specified that it will take off from Paris-CDG. The first Paris-New York flight will therefore take place on 26 March 2023, a little...

It is thanks to the joint venture set up with Delta - and validated last September - that LATAM will be able to increase its power in the US market. An offensive symbolised by the announcement at the end of November of a Sao Paulo-Los Angeles flight, even though the two business centres are not currently connected by a direct link. LATAM...