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Boeing announced last week that it could suspend production of the 737 MAX if it cannot convince regulators that it has resolved all the problems affecting its model. Boeing has already announced that it faces additional costs of more than eight billion dollars linked to two accidents that killed 346 people....

According to flight statistics from OAG, one of the world leaders in the analysis of flight frequencies and airline networks, flight punctuality in Europe continues to deteriorate rapidly. Increasingly congested airports and worsening weather conditions due to the effects of climate change are to blame.

How is Air Caraïbes faring? Edmond Richard - Air Caraïbes is facing stiff competition between mainland France and the Caribbean, resulting in a major fare war, compounded by soaring oil prices. Against this backdrop, Air Caraïbes is holding up rather well. We carried...

What if a face could be both boarding pass and passport? That's the promise of facial recognition applied to air travel. This biometric device simply consists of matching the photo of an identity document with the face of the passenger captured as they pass through. Average operation time: six seconds....

Already partners in the Skyteam alliance, and sharing codes for the past fifteen years, Air France KLM and Air Europa intend to go even further. The two groups have decided to join forces in a joint venture, the project for which is now awaiting approval from the competition authorities, in this case the...

Emirates' decision was a fatal blow to the Airbus A380 programme, which will officially come to an end with the delivery of the last dozen aircraft of this type to the Dubai-based airline. At Air France, one of the A380's longest-standing airlines, with the first aircraft delivered in 2009, the first signs of disenchantment with the...

Nantes airport continues to grow in popularity, particularly for Transavia, which is opening more and more routes. Almost ten years after the inauguration of its Nantes base, the carrier will soon be serving 29 destinations in 14 countries. Next autumn, Transavia will be inaugurating two new routes, to business destinations in...

How do you view the recently announced ecotax? Paul Chiambaretto - There are several problematic aspects to this eco-tax. Starting with the amount, which seems fairly arbitrary and, above all, does not depend on the type of aircraft. It doesn't matter whether you're landing a highly polluting 25-year-old aircraft or a brand new one...

Almost ten years after introducing the horizontal seat-bed to the Japanese market, All Nippon Airways is unveiling its latest product innovations for business customers. On 11 July, the Japanese airline presented its two new front classes, designed with the architect Kengo Kuma. The business class, dubbed "The Room", aims to establish itself as...

Norwegian has just announced that it will be suspending two new transatlantic routes, Las Vegas-London Gatwick and Orlando-Stockholm Arlanda. The company has already announced that it has no intention of reinstating these routes in the near future. At the same time, ten routes will be transformed into seasonal routes operating only during the summer. These include several business routes such as Boston-Paris...

The decision was taken on Tuesday by French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne: an "ecotax" is to make its appearance, and is expected to raise around 180 million euros ($202 million) from 2020. The revenue would be used to fund daily transport in France, in particular the local rail network. The ecotax will be applied in...

After Los Angeles, Newark, Hartford, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle, seven US destinations inaugurated since 2015 and the integration of the IAG group, it is now the turn of Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minnesota) to join the Aer Lingus network. The Irish national airline now operates six flights a week there, and will even adopt a daily frequency from this month...

It's an investment that goes against the grain of what the American airline industry has been doing for over a decade. Delta Air Lines is investing in its economy class service, modestly dubbed the "main cabin". Better still, the carrier, partner of Air France-KLM in a joint venture on transatlantic routes and member of the Air France-KLM...

In the A320 neo family, there was already the Airbus A321neo, which redefined the standards of the Airbus A321 by offering fuel savings of 25 %. Then came the A321LR with its additional 15 % range, allowing flights between Paris and Montreal or the Persian Gulf, for example, with aircraft...

The race for in-flight Wi-Fi, which has been underway for several years now, has yet to choose a winner. But American Airlines has just won a milestone victory, claiming the title of the world's most connected airline. "American Airlines now offers its customers access to high-speed satellite Wi-Fi and...

The disappearance of AirBerlin at the end of 2017 was quickly offset by the rise of easyJet, Eurowings and others. In India, two months after the grounding of Jet Airways' 120 aircraft, no airline has yet managed to mitigate the effects of this disappearance - even if only partially. Jet Airways was...

Will regional business travellers one day have to choose between an SNCF train or... another TGV? This is the - barely caricatured - proposal put forward earlier this week by MPs François Ruffin (LFI) and Delphine Batho (Ecologie) during discussions on the Mobility Orientation Law (LOM). The aim would be to...

Eurowings is launching its revised Smart fare for short and medium-haul flights. Smart is the airline's intermediate fare between its Basic and Bizclass fares. Eurowings is thus responding to the needs of passengers using this class of travel who did not seem to find the services provided commensurate with the fare paid....

It's an open secret. Since the arrival of the TGV in France, France's domestic lines - particularly the radial lines linking Paris to the regions - have been seriously undermined. The erosion dates back to the introduction of the first TGV, but the development of the network since the 90s has helped to reduce the...

Air France will be cutting back on its domestic network. The company made the news official on 13 May, at the end of the Central Social and Economic Committee (CSEC) meeting. A total of 465 positions are affected by a voluntary redundancy plan to be implemented over less than two years, targeting the airline's domestic network. For...