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Benjamin Smith is clearly not enjoying the brand portfolio of the Air France KLM group, which he took over during the summer. Less than a month after closing the short-lived Joon parenthesis, the boss of the Franco-Dutch group is considering attacking HOP!, according to information published on 30 January by La Tribune. The subsidiary...

Senegal's aviation ambitions have been thwarted. For more than a decade, the country has wanted to establish itself as the hub of West Africa, but has had to contend with a variety of difficulties. First of all with its new airport, the construction and opening of which has been delayed several times. The hub, located 50 km from...

We thought they were poles apart. In fact, we are discovering that they can coexist, even to the point of envisaging close cooperation. Low-cost airlines have not only revolutionised air transport on point-to-point routes. They are now entering the long-haul arena with their own flights, and through partnership agreements...

How would you sum up 2018, in France and globally? Paul Verhagen - We set new records! In particular, we carried 200,000 passengers between Paris and Mexico City, which corresponds to an increase of around 10% compared with the previous year. As for the load factor, it remains stable...

6.5 billion pounds, or 7.4 billion euros: that's how much British Airways has been spending over the past year on renovating its travel products, a transformation which began last year. From 1 February, passengers in Premium Economy will benefit from new menus exclusive to new products. Up until now, the...

September 17 will mark a milestone in the long history of LOT Polish Airlines. The airline, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, will launch its first flight to New Delhi. Its three-class Boeing 787 Dreamliner will take off from Terminal 3 at Warsaw airport, with five flights a week. "The flight...

Business travel between France and Moscow is definitely on a roll. And Marseille in particular. Almost a month after announcing an expanded programme between Paris and Moscow - and just a few days after Aeroflot unveiled its plans for Marseille - Aigle Azur has just outlined its ambitions for the route linking the Cité Phocéenne to...

Business travellers on the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) network now have a choice of three classes for their business trips. Since 1 January, the airline has introduced its Premium Economy class on all its medium-haul and domestic flights. This intermediary class - between Economy and Premium Economy...

The new United Polaris lounge will open on 12 January in Los Angeles, in terminal 7, between gates 73 and 75A. This is the fifth Polaris lounge in the United network, after Chicago, Newark, Houston and San Francisco. At LAX, the lounge covers more than 1,100 m², guaranteeing no less than...

Joon's future has been on hold for some weeks, even months. It is now sealed. Since his arrival at the head of Air France KLM, Benjamin Smith had made no secret of his doubts about this hybrid airline with its ambiguous positioning. For many observers, Joon was doomed to disappear or evolve. The disappearance of the...

Despite strikes and disruptions in governance, 2018 seems to have been a good year overall for the Air France KLM group. For the first time in its history, it even passed the symbolic 100 million passenger mark. In total, there were 101.4 million passengers in 2018, compared with...

French and European business travel buyers can rest easy: on the face of it, they should be relatively unaffected by fare increases in the airline sector over the coming months. This is one of the conclusions to be drawn from the Air Monitor 2019 report just published by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). According to the GBT and...

On 2 June, Brussels Airlines will be leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport, which the airline has been serving for some fifteen years now. However, the Lufthansa Group carrier is not deserting the Russian capital. Quite the contrary: it intends to bring business travellers closer to their final destination by transferring its operations to Sheremetyevo International Airport,...

From 1 June, Aeroflot will be operating no fewer than five weekly services between Marseille Provence and Moscow-Cheremetievo. The flight schedule includes services every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and tickets are now on sale. "We are particularly pleased to welcome Aeroflot, Russia's leading airline", says Jean-Louis Besson, CEO of Aeroflot.

During 2018, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recorded more than 4.3 billion air passengers. Compared with the previous year, this represents a 6.1 % increase in traffic. In terms of the number of flights, the United Nations agency recorded almost 38 million. In 2018, it was the Asia-Pacific market that...

Will business travellers one day miss the envelope carefully prepared by their assistant containing the step-by-step roadmap of their trip, including plane tickets and hotel reservations? In any case, this famous envelope will soon no longer exist. Because the assistant in question will be virtual. Intelligent agents, chatbots, robotic concierges... Artificial intelligence,...

Flightright has just unveiled its aviation review for 2018. The passenger rights specialist has ranked airports and airlines according to their punctuality and the number of flights cancelled between January and November. Among the 100 airlines with the most flights from France, Eastern Airways,...

Rumours very often have a basis in truth. And the rumour that has been circulating for a few weeks about the possible closure of Joon, Air France's hybrid subsidiary, seems to have found its way into the airline itself. It has to be said that Joon has yet to prove its worth, after just one year...

Since 4 December, business travellers from the Air Canada network and Star Alliance partners have had access to a new dedicated area at LaGuardia airport in New York. The Canadian airline is the first to inaugurate an airport lounge in the new Terminal B. This "Maple Leaf" lounge, with its...

CWT recently announced its intention to develop its airline booking service accessible on mobile from myCWT. Tested at the beginning of 2017, this service has been on the market since the second quarter of 2018 and will soon be available to travellers in many countries, including France, the United States and the United Kingdom. This...