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Jet Airways will soon be offering three direct daily flights from London Heathrow to Mumbai airport. The Indian carrier will be adding a third service on 29 October. This new flight will leave the British capital at 3.30pm and reach Mumbai at 5.55am local time. The return flight will leave...

"I want to complete AirAsia's presence in Asia". With these words, Tony Fernandes, CEO of the AirAsia group, justifies the two joint ventures signed in April and May respectively with Vietnamese and Chinese partners. For Vietnam, it's an old story of love and disappointment. AirAsia was thinking of setting up a subsidiary in Vietnam,...

Latin American air transport is in fine fettle. The Association of Latin American and Caribbean Airlines (ALTA) has reported that growth in passenger traffic last year was 7.1%, or 126.44 million passengers, excluding Brazilian domestic routes. On Intra-Latin American routes, growth was even as high as 7.4%, for a rate of...

Cathay Pacific is strengthening its position in Spain. As the Hong Kong airline prepares to launch a seasonal service between Hong Kong and Barcelona in July - operated with its brand new Airbus A350-900 - in addition to its four weekly flights to Madrid, Cathay Pacific has joined forces with Iberia to offer connections to...

Have the Gulf companies taken notice of the latest ICCA rankings, which crowned Paris as the world's meetings capital? The fact remains that the French capital is attracting increased attention. A few days after the announcement by Emirates that it is to install a two-class A380 at Roissy and thus increase its capacity, it is Etihad's turn to announce new ambitions. The...

The new Icelandair Saga Lounge has opened its doors. It now awaits business travellers on the top floor of Keflavík airport, the Icelandic airline's hub. This new business travel spot occupies a total surface area of 1,400 m². Icelandair has therefore doubled the space dedicated to business travellers to Iceland,...

A few days after announcing its retreat from the US market, by reducing frequencies at several American airports, Emirates is doing the opposite in Paris. The Dubai-based airline will be expanding its French catalogue by increasing capacity to and from Paris. To achieve this, Emirates will be installing its A380...

Will European business travellers have to leave their laptops in the hold when travelling to the United States on business? This is the threat that has been hanging over the business travel sector for the past few hours, as the "laptop ban" is set to be extended to the rest of Europe. This ban on portable PCs and other electronic devices with a...

More passengers, fewer baggage errors: that's the positive assessment that can be drawn from the report published by SITA, which scrutinised baggage handling in the airline sector for the 2016 financial year. The specialist in IT solutions and communication services for the airline industry has published its traditional Baggage Report. The report shows that...

The year 2017 marked the return in force of British Airways to French skies. After a remarkable comeback at Nantes airport after a nine-year absence, the airline landed in Montpellier on 3 May. Business travellers in the Languedoc region had not seen a BA aircraft land for ten...

Since Tuesday 2 May, Helsinki airport has entered a new era: Finnair is trialling a new facial recognition service until 23 May. This full-scale test is being carried out in partnership with Finavia, the Finnish airport management body, and Futurice, the supplier of the technology being tested. Facial recognition...

Jet Airways is clarifying its European ambitions: the Indian airline has just confirmed that it will be flying to Chennai from Paris on 29 October. Tickets have been on sale since 20 April, and we already know that Air France and Delta Air Lines will be codeshare partners on these routes. Five flights will be operated each week...

67%: this is the percentage of employees who voted against the proposed turnaround of the national airline Alitalia, in a vote held on Monday. 6,816 of the company's employees voted against and 3,206 in favour of the turnaround plan, which provided for a restructuring of the short/medium-haul network, the departure of 980 ground staff and...

The widespread use of mobile devices - smartphones, tablets, laptops - will have, and is already having, a definite impact on the in-flight entertainment offered by airlines. In its annual survey of passengers' high-tech habits, SITA, a specialist in technologies for the airline industry, showed that in 2016, almost half of all passengers...

The decision was taken at the end of last week. Emirates, the largest carrier in the Gulf, is to reduce its capacity to the United States significantly. Five routes will be affected by capacity reductions. In an announcement published last Wednesday, the airline said it was reducing the number of flights from the month of...

Announced last October, Iberia's Premium Economy concept is now a reality. The airline brought together its partners and the media on 20 April in Madrid to present the first aircraft equipped with the new cabin, an Airbus A340/600. Four other Airbus aircraft will be fitted with the new equipment during the Iberian carrier's summer operations....

On 18 April, Air India and SNCF announced the signature of a bimodal partnership, which will enable the Indian carrier to join the TGV AIR network. In practical terms, this means that both business and leisure travellers will have access to a pre- and post-carriage service to one of the 77 destinations served by the airline from...

Has EasyJet become an alternative to traditional airlines for business travellers? Sébastien Calmejane - For the new generation of corporate travellers, low cost is no longer a taboo, and the figures prove it. On departure from France, the share of traffic for business reasons has reached 24 %. Some routes are even setting records in this area.

The 'direct connect' sales policy adopted by the Lufthansa group in September 2015 is being emulated. Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has decided to adopt the same model, unveiling on 14 April the introduction of a new fee on bookings made through a GDS (Global Distribution Systems). ever-increasing GDS costs...

The news has been expected for several months now. It remains subject to validation by the regulatory authorities. But it is now official: Air France KLM and Singapore Airlines will be sharing codes. The agreement is due to come into force in a few days' time, on 27 April to be exact. It will cover around ten destinations in France and Europe...