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Since July, Paris is the fifth destination to welcome an Etihad A380 after London, Melbourne, New York and Sydney. The introduction of the A380 on the Abu Dhabi-Paris route will make it possible to offer a seamless end-to-end product between France and Australia, for example. Above all, it will introduce new products...

Business travellers can gradually return to their normal routines. And airlines are regaining a little peace of mind... Etihad, Emirates and Turkish Airlines are no longer affected by the electronics ban imposed by the US authorities on 21 March. In practical terms, this means that business travellers leaving for the United States can now take their...

It was a full flight ahead of schedule - and a very auspicious one at that - that flew from Paris to Beirut on Monday in the colours of Aigle Azur. 131 passengers had a front row seat for the airline's first flight to Lebanon. Aigle Azur is preparing to operate this route all year round from...

The summer period is often very quiet, sometimes too quiet. Fortunately, Qatar Airways is no slouch when it comes to news: a few days after its bid to acquire a stake in American Airlines, and against a backdrop of turbulent diplomatic relations with its Gulf neighbours, the Doha-based carrier is making its presence felt this week on the French market...

For a while there was a rush, but now it's a bit of a letdown. The political opening between the United States and Cuba was followed by the launch of a multitude of routes between the two countries. Except that the market has not lived up to expectations. As a result, after reaching a peak of 165,000 seats per...

Three years after launching its in-flight connectivity offer, JAL is now offering free access to all travellers, on its domestic network only. In the skies over Japan, all flights operated by JAL and its subsidiary JTA (Japan Transocean Air) have been covered since 20 June, provided of course...

Qatar Airways has been banned not only from serving Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, but also from overflying their airspace. As a result, flights to the west of Doha are now problematic. The ban on overflying these countries is forcing the airline to...

In 2003, Concorde made its last flight. Too expensive, too fuel-hungry... in short, a has-been in the age of superjumbos like the A380, despite its eminently glamorous appearance. Twenty years on, will supersonic aircraft come back into fashion? That's what Boom Technology is thinking with its X-B1 aircraft project. Its first test flight is scheduled for...

After Montpellier and Nantes, British Airways is preparing to make another comeback in Isère. The Grenoble - London route will resume service from 2 December 2017, as announced by British Airways this week. This weekly flight will operate every Saturday to Heathrow terminal 5. This new route aims to...

On Friday, Jet Airways confirmed the growing importance of its codeshare agreements with Air France, KLM and Delta. This codeshare now covers 27 destinations via Paris, 43 via Amsterdam, and 34 other airports in North America. The Indian airline was already code-sharing with Air France on flights between...

Here's a press release that's likely to cause quite a stir. In seven terse lines, sent to the media on Thursday afternoon, Qatar Airways unveils its capital-intensive ambitions targeting American Airlines. The Doha-based airline says it "sees a strong investment opportunity in American Airlines". The press release continues: "Qatar Airways believes in the fundamentals of American Airlines and...

For a long time, Tony Fernandes, CEO of the AirAsia Group, has dreamed of offering passengers the possibility of flying on an AirAsia product from end to end, from America, Europe or, of course, Asia. With the opening of a new route to Hawaii from Kuala Lumpur - with a stopover in Japan - for the long-haul subsidiary AirAsia...

El Al is giving itself the means to fulfil its ambitions: it will cost the airline more than a billion euros ($1.25 billion) to buy the sixteen Boeing 787-9s for which the order was confirmed in mid-June. This is an opportunity for the Israeli carrier to rethink its product for business travellers, and to enter the market...

For its first participation at Viva Technology, this spring's technology event, Air France has thought big. The airline took over a 400 m² space at Porte de Versailles, bringing together 32 projects and start-ups in a rather eclectic "Future of Travel lab". This was an opportunity to present the main thrusts of...

Since Saturday, Air Canada Rouge has been serving Marseille-Provence airport with three flights a week. Until 14 October, business travellers from Marseille can fly to Montreal on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, departing at 1.45pm. Return flights leave Montreal at 9.15pm every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. They arrive at Marseille-Provence airport...

From 29 October until 24 March, Singapore Airlines will be adding three weekly flights to its Paris catalogue. The airline will then be offering no fewer than ten flights between Paris CDG and Singapore. The new routes are scheduled every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. [caption id="attachment_61737" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Singapore Airlines flight times...

Nantes, Biarritz, Faro, Naples and Venice: these are the destinations that Easyjet is adding to its list of destinations from Lille-Lesquin airport this weekend. These new routes could well be of interest to business customers, especially as the airline plans to maintain them throughout the year. On the domestic network, operations...

What business traveller has never had to deal with a meeting that goes on for too long, an interviewer who goes overtime, or more generally a last-minute change in schedule? To deal with these unforeseen events and guarantee greater flexibility for our business travellers, Air France has enhanced its Flex offer by adding the "After Show" option ....

It's called "TF-NEO", belongs to the Airbus A320neo family, and took its first steps at Zaventem airport on 2 June: it's official, Wow Air has launched its new Brussels-Reykjavik flight, continuing its rise in the European market. This new route is immediately adopting its...

No sooner said than done: just over two months after announcing its intention to enter the long-haul low-cost race, the IAG group has kept its word, and on schedule. On Thursday 1 June, Level made its first flight from the Barcelona hub. The aircraft, a brand new Airbus A330-200, left the...