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China Southern's departure from the Skyteam alliance could appear to be a non-event, with codeshare agreements retained and recognition of frequent flyer programmes maintained. This is because the Chinese airline, which wanted to regain complete commercial freedom, has not in fact severed all links with its former alliance partners. Quite the contrary, in fact. It is continuing...

It's time to take stock of air travel. Air Indemnité has taken the plunge, putting a figure on the disruption to flights to and from French airports in 2019. To begin 2020 with a touch of optimism, we welcome the positive findings of this study. Starting with the...

Where does Airbus stand today? François Caudron - Airbus has been in existence for 50 years. It's been a remarkable journey, because 50 years is not a long time! We were just a concept, but today we are the leader in single-aisle aircraft, with a short-haul market share of 60 %. And on long-haul routes, we fluctuate between 45 % and...

Haneda airport has one major advantage: it is located just 30 minutes by public transport from the heart of Tokyo, compared with over an hour for the Narita hub. This advantage is also supported by the local authorities, as the Japanese government is helping Haneda to grow by freeing up air slots. The recent award of...

Air travel is becoming more intuitive, with passengers taking greater control of technology and offering more à la carte products. According to various surveys carried out among passengers, this reflects their desire for a faster, less intrusive and partially automated service. Both airlines and airports are responding...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key part of Air Canada's strategy, with the airline launching a series of initiatives to shape the future of the services it provides to more than 50 million passengers each year. "Mega data and AI are now an integral part of our business," said Calin Rovinescu, president...

Since 18 December, a new tool has been in operation at Osaka International Airport. This "Pocketalk", designed by Sourcenext, is a real-time automatic translation system for All Nippon Airways teams. 200 devices of this type will soon be deployed in around fifty Japanese airports, with a view to simplifying...

Faced with the collapse in tourism in 2003-2004 as a result of the avian influenza epidemic (SARS) - which hit Hong Kong and Singapore particularly hard - Singapore Airlines decided to cancel services to half a dozen cities, including Brussels, Madrid and Vienna airports in Europe. While Madrid and Vienna will still have to...

What is your assessment of the first year of this governance alongside Benjamin Smith? Anne Rigail - With Ben Smith, a climate of trust has been established with our employees and our social partners. His knowledge of the business has greatly facilitated relations with all our staff, who are now proud to have a management team that knows their business...

For Air France-KLM passengers doing business in South-East Asia, there has until now been the Skyteam alliance to cover this part of the world, thanks to cooperation agreements with alliance members Garuda Indonesia and Vietnam Airlines. From the end of December, passengers will benefit from a new alternative thanks to the signature of a new agreement with...

The information leaked through the House of Representatives in the US Congress. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released documents showing that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted in its first report, following the two 2018 accidents, that the...

It's all very well for airlines to complain about a mediocre economic climate, over-taxation of their business or the environmental threat posed by the "flight shaming" movement. But the fact remains that they have been making profits for a decade. With profits forecast at 29.3 billion for 2020, the airline industry is set to record its 11th consecutive profit....

For more than a decade now, South African Airways has suffered from "haphazard" management. The state-owned airline, plagued by scandals, has been exposed to strikes by its staff, the latest episode of which last November precipitated a situation of near-bankruptcy. Since 2004, no fewer than six CEOs have succeeded one another at the head of...

That was thirty years ago, and what was then the Orly West terminal was home to Lufthansa flights to Germany, among others, while Hungarian Malev's planes took off for Budapest from Orly Sud. Lufthansa moved to Roissy at the end of the 80s, Malev has disappeared. From next summer, the planes...

While the Cathay group is generally the first name that springs to mind when you think of air transport in Hong Kong - the airline carries 75% of the territory's passengers - another carrier has managed to carve out a place for itself in the metropolis over the last decade: Hong Kong Airlines. The company born...

Volotea launched its first flight to Lyon in April 2018 and already serves Prague all year round, as well as Venice for the past few weeks. The niche regional airline also offers routes to Cagliari in Sardinia, Palma de Mallorca, Palermo, Split and Valencia in high season. The announcement to base an Airbus A319 at...

Business travellers accustomed to transiting via the Astana hub for their trips to Central Asia are going to have to rethink their flight plans. Five years after its arrival on the Paris-Astana route, the Kazakh airline has decided to transfer its operations from the current administrative capital to the historic centre of Kazakhstan: Almaty. In June...

The restructuring plan recently presented by the national carrier Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), which took effect in November, smacks of déjà vu. The country's main airline is on its last legs, and its new chairman, Evgeny Dykhne, announced at the end of October that he would be forced to...

Norwegian Air, which is restructuring its transatlantic services around major hubs in Europe and the United States, has just announced the launch of flights from Paris and Rome to Chicago, as well as a Rome-Denver route. On the CDG-Chicago O'Hare route, the low-cost carrier will begin flights on 1 May, operating up to five rotations a week...

How long has United Airlines been committed to sustainable development? Maria Race - We've been working on biofuel projects since 2009, but before that we had already initiated the switch to electric power for our ground equipment, particularly at Houston airport, where their share has reached 75%. Some of our...