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Until now, airlines still serving the Thai capital had to fly empty or only with repatriated Thai passengers. However, they were authorised to carry departing passengers. Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Emirates, Etihad, Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways can once again carry passengers to Bangkok. Since Friday 16...

At a recent seminar, Dave Thomson, Skyscanner's senior technology expert, sketched out what travel could be like in the post-Covid era. The expert predicts an increase in contactless technology, scanner identification, pre-booked security checks, health kiosks, disinfection robots and even...

Available only on the Apple App Store for the time being, Check & Fly should soon be available on Android smartphones. The app allows airports to communicate to passengers the measures they should expect, helping them to comply with health and safety requirements. "The resumption of air travel will depend on the confidence...

The images seem to belong to another era. And yet it was only a year ago... At the time, airline advertisements showed business travellers relaxing at the bar in an airport lounge, flight attendants transforming an armchair into a comfortable bed. Since then, a disaster has struck the air transport industry and...

Just thirty years ago, in October 1990, ANA took off for the first time from Tokyo's Narita airport, bound for Paris CDG. It also made a few stopovers in Moscow, Stockholm and Vienna. Since then, the French catalogue has been greatly expanded, from two weekly flights to a daily service, now operated from...

As of 30 September, Poland is once again allowing flights to France. This about-turn by the Polish government was justified by the Minister for Infrastructure, Marcin Horała. In a message, the Minister explained that the flight ban had in fact had very little impact on the number of contaminations in Poland....

Fewer than a dozen Asian cities will have direct flights to Paris this winter. That's what you see when you look closely at the airlines' winter schedules. What's more, these schedules are only forecasts, given the evolution of the pandemic and the conditions of entry into the countries concerned. The...

-6.1% in Western Europe, -12.3% for Central and Eastern Europe: the figures compiled by the consultant OAG are indisputable. Airline capacity around the world is falling, and Europe is particularly hard hit. According to OAG, while airlines were planning a total of 59 million seats for the week of...

In a world battered by the coronavirus pandemic, there are still places where a certain optimism reigns. Such is the case at Addis Ababa airport, the capital of Ethiopia. On 28 August, Ethiopian Airlines officially inaugurated the expansion of Terminal 2, its international hub. Few travellers...

This is the information that the Eurocontrol agency reveals every week. For several weeks now, Amsterdam Schiphol has been the airport with the highest number of aircraft movements in Europe. On Wednesday 26 August, the Dutch hub recorded 772 aircraft movements, up 2% on the week of 12 August. Amsterdam thus overtakes...

The uncertainty surrounding the resumption of air traffic due to the persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing Finnair to suspend a number of its international routes. However, the airline has set a deadline for these suspensions: March 31, the date on which the summer timetable officially begins...

Both countries have confirmed that they will be operating special flights until at least 10 September. Air France is offering up to three daily flights between Paris CDG and Casablanca, two daily flights to Marrakech and one or two daily flights to Rabat. For its part, Royal Air Maroc is continuing to operate up to two daily flights from Paris to...

Korean Air will be operating a watered-down network for the IATA winter season. The season begins on 25 October and runs until 27 March 2021. The carrier's network will represent barely 30% of its usual destinations, i.e. thirty international routes instead of 104 for the same period in 2019/2020. Paris-CDG...

Brussels Airlines is introducing five new fare classes from 18 August. These fares are valid for all flights on or after September 1. The new fares will be familiar to passengers who are used to flying under the Lufthansa banner. The five fares will be open...

Singapore Airlines resumed flights between Paris and Singapore in mid-July. Since last month, the carrier has been landing on the tarmac at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle twice a week with Airbus A350-900XWB aircraft. The airline had suspended its flights since March with the...

2020 will go down as one of the most difficult years for Strasbourg airport. After the COVID crisis, which halted all traffic for two months with the exception of medical, freight and repatriation flights, Strasbourg is now faced with the restructuring of the Air France group, with the cessation of flights in the near future...

For OAG, the 28th week of traffic under the covid-19 effect saw a further increase in air capacity worldwide, albeit at a slower pace than initially forecast. OAG recorded 57.5 million weekly seats for the week of 27 July, i.e. around 48% of last year's capacity....

In mid-July, Air Tahiti resumed its scheduled flights between mainland France and French Polynesia. These flights take a different route, as they now transit via Vancouver. Mathieu Bechonnet, Executive Vice President of Air Tahiti Nui, explains the particular challenges facing the airline. Air Tahiti Nui has just resumed its...

Lufthansa's Airport Express service has been around for decades. As far back as the 1980s, Lufthansa innovated by running Deutsche Bundesbahn trains from Düsseldorf, Cologne and the former federal capital Bonn, as well as from Stuttgart, to the mainline station at Frankfurt airport. The trains were painted in Lufthansa colours...