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With each passing day, the death toll from coronavirus infection in China rises. But the next major victim could be... an airline. Bloomberg reported last week that China will be stepping up to the plate to help its air transport sector, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. The Chinese...

EUROPE In Italy, on the morning of 25 February, the airports of Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Bergamo and Venice remained open to air traffic, despite the peak in the number of Covid-19 cases detected last weekend. Security measures have been in place at Italy's main airports since the end of January, including a ban on...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has done its sums. The outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is expected to have a severe impact on aviation activity worldwide, with the epicentre of the crisis obviously being in Asia. The initial assessment of the impact of COVID-19 shows a potential loss of 13 % in passenger demand...

According to the airline group, no fewer than 700 flights will be withdrawn from Singapore Airlines and its regional subsidiary Silk Air between March and the end of May. As the City-State is one of the cities most affected by the coronavirus, with 81 cases recorded as of 18 February, the...

A surprising statement was made following Air Italy's shareholders' meeting on 11 February. At 2.30pm, a press release announced that Air Italy, formerly Meridiana, had gone into liquidation. When it was set up in February 2018, the future seemed to be looking bright for this a 49% company in the hands of the powerful Qatar Airways. The strategy...

The coronavirus has claimed another victim, this time in Hong Kong, where airlines are reviewing their global services and even temporarily suspending flights. The aim is to cope with a sharp fall in demand. Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, for example, has made drastic cuts to the number of...

While France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is recommending that French nationals postpone all non-urgent travel to China, which airlines are still flying to the world's second largest economy? More than 30 airlines have suspended their services to the People's Republic. Of these...

Air transport is one of the most fragmented industries on the planet. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) lists nearly 800 airlines worldwide. This is a staggering figure when compared with the automotive industry, a highly concentrated sector with 90 % of the market share in the...

The decision by the Chinese authorities on Tuesday morning to advise the population to stop travelling abroad will have extremely negative consequences for the economy, with the tourism industry obviously in the front row. In 2018, the number of Chinese travelling abroad reached 149 million, compared with 10.5 million in 2000....

The aviation news was recently shaken up by a Reuters report announcing that the Air France-KLM group had expressed its intention to take a 49% stake in Malaysia Airlines, while Japan Airlines was to become the second largest foreign minority shareholder by taking a 25% stake in the airline, with the remaining shares being held by...

In the spring of 2019, Air Tahiti Nui was at a turning point in its history. At that time, the carrier took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9, a new work tool which was to enable it to face up to a competitive environment which was, to say the least, highly charged... Less than a year later, it has to be said that the airline has...

Ben Smith was quick to announce the colour of his appointment: his presidency will be marked by a move upmarket in Air France's offer, in particular to match the image of luxury and elegance conveyed by the French flag. This is the rationale behind the deployment of Business on the domestic network...

It took fifteen months of preparation to finally achieve this result: from 1 April 2020, passengers travelling on the national carrier Royal Air Maroc will benefit from the power of the oneworld alliance. On that date, the Moroccan carrier will be integrated into the alliance which includes IAG, American Airlines, Cathay and others.

The Lufthansa group has decided to work in close partnership with Google Cloud to optimise its operational performance. Passengers are regularly confronted with unforeseen events: flight delays, the need to rebook following missed connections, or extreme weather conditions. All of which can disrupt...

Air France's move upmarket is now being extended to destinations in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean region. Over the course of the year, the airline will be gradually rolling out new travel cabins on the 10 Boeing 777-300s mainly destined for this network. The first aircraft equipped with these cabins took to the skies on 15...

The latest data from ForwardKeys, a firm which analyses the development of global air traffic by working on the capacity of flights in service, flight searches and more than 17 million booking transactions per day, reveals that in 2019, the growth in the number of international air journeys rose by 4.5...

Airlines are making their mark at CES, the technology event held every year in Las Vegas. For this 2020 edition, American Airlines has just announced the launch of an automatic translation service. In the same vein, Delta has played the technology card, with a number of major assets. The CEO of...

This is a predictable consequence of the renewed tension between the United States and Iran. Air transport in the Gulf is now affected by the military escalation between the two countries. Several airlines, including Air France, China Airlines, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Qantas, have announced that they will not be flying over the potential conflict zone represented by Iran.

Machine translation is clearly high on the list of airline flight plans for 2020. A few days after the deployment of the Pocketalk tool to All Nippon Airways' teams, and while British Airways is preparing to launch its Bill robot, also equipped with a translation system, American Airlines is working on a...

Today, there are only two major airlines in the American West: Alaska Airlines, with its hub in Seattle, and Hawaiian Airlines, with its main base in Honolulu. The only other airline based on the West Coast, Virgin America, was finally absorbed by Alaska at the beginning of 2018. Alaska Airlines, now the seventh largest...