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In an ever-challenging health context, reassuring customers about the quality of the protocols and barrier measures put in place has become a priority. In this context, Bureau Veritas is becoming a key partner for the tourism industry, in particular with its "Restart Your Business with BV" service offering. Already associated with the Accor hotel group for...

According to the Russian press, on 14 July Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin received Vitaly Saveliev, CEO of Aeroflot, to hear the airline group's new strategic plan, which runs until 2023. The plan is highly ambitious, with Aeroflot set to record annual traffic of 130 million passengers by 2023.

Why is JAL resuming flights to France at a time when Japan has not reopened its borders and it is advisable to avoid Tokyo, which has been hit by a new wave of infections? What markets is the company targeting? Gilles Binard - The resumption of our commercial flights on the Paris-Tokyo route began on 1st...

On 9 July, Austrian Airlines unveiled its summer schedule, which will run until the end of October. The Austrian airline - which currently operates at 20% of capacity - will be ramping up its operations, particularly from September onwards. Over the next few weeks, capacity is set to double, to 40% from...

Like all airlines worldwide, Air Austral has had to reduce its scheduled operations for three months due to the Covid-19 epidemic. During this period, however, the carrier maintained a twice-weekly air bridge with Paris, organised repatriation and emergency health flights, and continued to operate its scheduled flights...

Over the past few days, there has been renewed excitement in Australia about the resurgence of cases of COVID 19. From 7,461 cases of infection on 21 June - a relatively low figure all things considered - on 2 July the number of infected people topped the 8,000 mark, and by the evening of 7 July had reached...

Slowly but surely, the routine of business travel and its obligatory points of passage are regaining their rights. Admittedly, the routine has changed, you now have to come forward masked, and access procedures have evolved, but little by little business travellers are regaining access to these premium offers, which tend to reduce the impact of a busy flight schedule....

The Air France group's restructuring plan today confirms the closure of some of its domestic routes, in order to meet the target of reducing capacity on the French domestic network by 40% by the end of 2021. This was one of the conditions laid down by the French government for financial support totalling seven billion euros, of which...

LOT Polish Airlines reopened its European routes on 1 July, connecting Brussels and Nice but not Paris. Why is this? Yann Saint Sorny - It may seem surprising that we are taking over the Nice-Warsaw route with 4 flights a week rather than our Paris route. In fact, this route is part of the...

The return to a certain normality means greater visibility for Europe's airlines. The Lufthansa Group - which includes Lufthansa Passage, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss - has decided to publish a summer schedule valid until 24 October, the date on which the new timetable comes into force...

Transavia had the honour of reopening the ball at Orly. 13 years after its very first flight - already to Porto - and above all 13 weeks after the closure of the Paris airport, the French airline took off for the Portuguese airport, and relaunched the machine to the south of Paris. For the occasion, as for a...

26 June will mark the reopening of Orly airport, which has been closed since the end of March. Terminal 3 will welcome 130 daily flights instead of the 650 flights on the platform as a whole. Services will be provided to Corsica, a dozen Schengen countries including Portugal and Greece, as well as the French overseas territories, i.e. the...

After less than two years in business, the health crisis has had the better of a new airline, the young Level Europe. The European low-cost airline, part of the IAG group, had set up its base at Vienna airport - a very attractive location for low-cost airlines - before opening a new base in Amsterdam. Its operations had ceased...

Known for its sense of efficiency, Singapore is the hub of the business world in South-East Asia, particularly in terms of finance and international trade. The city, which has no territory other than its metropolis, is more dependent than its neighbours in the region on its relations with the outside world. With the crisis...

What type of traffic is Delta Air Lines expecting on the Paris-New York JFK flight, with entry restrictions still in place? Béatrice de Rotalier - We expect a mix of different types of travellers on this flight, including mainly business and essential travellers. Maintaining the...

Air France is stepping up a gear as summer approaches. The airline has set a target of 150 destinations connected this summer, representing 80% of its network. However, the programme will logically remain limited: at the end of the month, 20% of the usual capacity will be operational. The ratio will reach 35% in July, and 40%...

They are absolutely furious and ready to take the government to court. In a recent opinion piece, British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair, the three biggest players in British air transport, expressed their anger at the measure taken by Boris Johnson's government to introduce compulsory quarantine...

Contrary to the measures to reopen the market, which signal the gradual end of the health crisis, the United States is preparing to impose a new restriction on China. This measure is not based on epidemiological precautions, but responds above all to a political logic, in an increasingly tense diplomatic context between Washington and Beijing....

According to the consulting firm OAG, which analyses and publishes the schedules of all the world's airlines, the beginning of June saw a genuine increase in capacity for the first time in three months. This trend confirms the predictions of aviation experts, who were forecasting the start of growth at this time of year....

Enabling air transport to take off again on the basis of globally harmonised rules. This is the objective of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which has just unveiled its recommendations in the "Takeoff" report, produced after consultation with numerous stakeholders including the WHO, Airports Council International (ACI) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). So...