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A business trip with your hands in your pockets, or almost... That's what the new partnership between Swiss and AirPortr, a digital platform providing intelligent baggage management solutions, is all about. The Lufthansa Group airline is offering a new "AirPortr option", via which passengers can request their baggage to be collected...

The reopening of Canada to inoculated European visitors represents an opportunity for Canadian airlines. In particular, they see the possibility of offering more international routes from Quebec. In fact, France has been particularly well looked after by Air Canada. Last weekend, the national airline resumed its flights to the West Indies from...

Present in Paris for the IFTM Top Resa trade fair, Air Austral Chairman Marie-Joseph Malé does not usually express himself much. However, he outlined the foreseeable trend that Air Austral is set to follow in the coming months. "We're on an upward trend, after a year and a half of a rebounding pandemic", he explains....

Admittedly, we are still a long way from getting back to pre-pandemic traffic levels, with experts agreeing that we will have to wait until 2024 to see performances similar to 2019. However, since the summer of 2021, there has been a slight upturn in traffic, which seems to be confirmed month by month for the time being. This summer, both Europe and France...

Good news for business travellers who regularly fly between Paris and Clermont-Ferrand: from 2 November, Amelia will be resuming the schedule it introduced shortly before the crisis. The French carrier will be operating the same schedule, with two daily flights on weekdays and one on Sundays. The...

ITA has just taken off, with ambitions to become the benchmark airline on the Italian peninsula. It is starting its activity with a limited network and a compact fleet compared to what Alitalia was before the pandemic. For its debut, ITA serves 44 destinations on 59 routes, including the...

A week ago, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published the results of a survey. Carried out among 4,700 people in 11 countries in September, the survey shows that passengers are generally weary of the restrictions still in force on air travel. But there is one important point concerning vaccination. It is true that...

The new season for business travel is well and truly upon us: during the first week of September, one in four travellers boarding an easyJet flight did so for business reasons, according to data published on 6 October by the airline. This is equivalent to the ratio prior to the health crisis...

The crisis must have seemed very long to the teams at Brussels Airlines, which was particularly weakened for many months by this period of turbulence. Nailed to the tarmac for months, the airline's aircraft are gradually returning to service, gradually expanding the network. The winter programme unveiled on 30 September confirms this renewed ambition,...

Inaugurated in mid-July, following a £1 billion (€1.16 billion) construction phase, Manchester Airport's new Terminal 2 is now home to more than a dozen carriers. The two latest arrivals are none other than Air France and KLM, who join other major players,...

This is confirmed almost daily. Air travel in Europe is picking up with the acceleration of vaccination. Travellers in possession of the precious sesame that is a vaccination are increasingly authorised to travel. This is good news for Finnair, whose traffic in Helsinki is largely made up of...

From the outset, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) intended the Travel Pass to be interoperable with other solutions on the market. This compatibility is proving its worth, as the European Union's digital certificate and the UK's NHS COVID Pass can now be used in conjunction with...

It's a modest return, but a return all the same. Since 20 August, Canadian carrier Westjet has been offering a weekly flight between Calgary - the capital of the province of Alberta - and Paris CDG. Every Sunday until the end of October, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner will fly between the two cities. The Westjet Dreamliner offers...

Faced with a regulatory framework that is confusing to say the least, the business travel industry is getting organised to offer passengers a little visibility. Such is the case with Air France, which has announced the launch of a new, free and optional service called Ready to Fly. Already being tested by the airline since June, it has now been extended to...

Following in the footsteps of Air France, Delta, La Compagnie and United, French Bee will be arriving on the Paris-New York route this summer. The low-cost carrier will link Orly to Newark Liberty International airport in New York with three direct flights a week in July. From August, it will operate four direct flights a week on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays....

270 aircraft ordered: a symbolic event for an air transport industry shaken by the covid pandemic over the past year. This gigantic order comes this time from the United States and is signed by United Airlines. As part of its "United Next" programme - a programme to modernise the carrier over the next decade - the company has...

In these unprecedented times, when compromise - hybrids - are becoming the norm, the temptation of the intermediate class is making itself felt among certain airlines. After KLM, which announced at the end of 2020 the arrival of a new premium economy for 2022, Swiss has just unveiled its new product. This fourth class, which is already open to bookings,...

If you had to describe Lufthansa's long-haul leisure strategy, "erratic" would certainly be the most appropriate word. For almost a decade, the German carrier has been trying to capture a long-haul market, either point-to-point or described as 'leisure'. However, these routes are not 'premium' enough for the airline to operate them...

The current difficulties faced by CSA, the Czech national carrier, appear to be an excellent opportunity for the Lufthansa group, which has decided to open a new Eurowings base in Prague. It will be the airline's tenth base in Europe. One man's loss is another man's gain... Czech national carrier CSA is struggling...

Following the announcement of the easing of travel restrictions to and from France on 9 June, La Compagnie has resumed its scheduled flights between Paris Orly and New York. The first Paris-Newark flights took place on 12 June, with two frequencies per week. However, the carrier is stepping up the pace with...