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Transavia officially announced on Tuesday 13 February that it will be closing its Munich base from next winter. Munich was the first European base outside France and the Netherlands - its two home markets - for the low-cost airline, which announced in 2015 that it wanted to conquer Europe like Easyjet...

With 223.2 million passengers, German air transport is the third largest generator of traffic, after Great Britain (more than 260 million passengers) and Spain (230 million). This puts Germany ahead of Italy (160 million passengers) and France (154.5 million passengers). However, the growth in air traffic in Germany has not...

It was a predictable little revolution, but in 2016 the low-cost carrier Ryanair finally became Europe's leading airline with 116.8 million passengers, overtaking the Lufthansa group (Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian and Eurowings) with its 110 million passengers. The third carrier to reach the 100 million passenger mark in 2016 was the IAG group, made up of...

Among the new routes unveiled by easyJet on 9 February, several business routes are likely to attract the attention of business travellers. The opening of the Marseille-Geneva route, in particular, and the route linking Lille to Nantes could well appeal to this corporate clientele who are increasingly frequenting the airline's network. The first route will start on 28...

Digital innovation: that will be Brussels Airlines' good resolution for 2017. The airline has already put its new credo into practice, with the launch of a mobile application. This new tool, available free of charge on the App Store and Google Play, enables business travellers and holidaymakers to book their tickets, check their flights and...

What does Icelandair have in common with what it was in its early days? Birkir Hólm Guðnasson, CEO - Icelandair's mentality, its Icelandic spirit. We don't think that such and such a project is impossible or that we are small. We don't think like that. Our employees always say to themselves: "We can do it too...

Along with Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific is one of the models of successful Asian aviation. The Hong Kong-based airline has been an integral part of the aviation history of the British colony and then the financial metropolis. The carrier is one of the oldest in Asia, having celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016. The two carriers are models of management:...

It was described as one of the most ambitious in the Gulf, with one of the fastest growth rates on the planet. In the space of a decade, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad has gone from a company generating some 300 million dollars in revenue to an airline group worth more than 26 billion. In ten years, Etihad has...

Partners in a joint venture since 1 July 2016 and both members of the SkyTeam alliance, Air France and China Eastern Airlines have just strengthened their ties to help business travellers to China from France. Companies will now be able to take advantage of a joint contract, managed by the only...

How did traffic between France and Japan fare in 2016? Moriyuki Tanemura - From January to September, we recorded an increase of 45 % on the Paris-Tokyo route compared with the previous year. On this highly competitive route, the All Nippon Airways product remains a benchmark for business passengers. We are proud to be...

What strategy is Aer Lingus deploying to conquer the business travel market? Farida Chikhaoui - Aer Lingus offers daily flights to Dublin and Cork from Paris CDG, as well as flights from Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Rennes, Toulouse and Perpignan. From Dublin, our passengers can fly to ten destinations in America...

Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, travelled to Paris last week to inaugurate a brand new business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport. The inauguration was attended by Frank Goldanel, Director of Aéroports de Paris, and Abdullah Al Subaey, Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority...

At a press conference at the beginning of December, Didier Robert, President of the Réunion region, and Marie-Joseph Malé, CEO of Air Austral, congratulated each other on a historic event: for the first time in the island's history, a non-stop flight is about to link St Denis de la Réunion to the Chinese city of Guangzhou...

With 117 million passengers, an increase of 15% in traffic, Ryanair is still Europe's leading carrier. By way of comparison, easyJet came close to the 75 million passenger mark in 2016 - 74.45 million to be precise - thanks to a 6.6% increase in traffic. First and fifth largest airlines...

In 1947, when Australian carrier Qantas opened the "Kangaroo Route" between London and Sydney, it took four days and nine stopovers to reach the destination. In 2018, it will now take just 17 hours to reach Australia from Europe with the launch by Qantas of a non-stop service between London and...

In 1988 - just over 25 years ago - Nantes airport was handling just one million passengers. It wasn't until 2005 that the two million passenger mark was reached. Since then, in the space of a decade, Nantes has multiplied its traffic by 2.5. Last year, the airport managed by...

The agreement signed on Friday by Lufthansa and Etihad is a further step on the road to cooperation, even if it remains - for the time being - modest in scope. It simply provides for a code-share agreement on the Frankfurt-Abu Dhabi and Munich-Abu Dhabi routes (served by Etihad) and on the Frankfurt-Bogota and Frankfurt-Rio de Janeiro routes (served by...

A traveller's essential companion, luggage is nonetheless a burden when it comes to getting to a meeting or exploring the city between appointments. To enable business travellers to travel light, Turkish Airlines is launching a baggage transfer service. With Mini Port, the Turkish carrier takes care of bags between the airport...

A small patch of lawn, trees and flowerbeds whose shadows stretch out in the setting sun... You'd almost forget you were in the heart of one of the busiest airports in the world, in this case Singapore. This oasis is one of the few gardens dotted around the gigantic complex...

With its refocusing on its two hubs of Düsseldorf and Berlin Tegel, Airberlin has just announced the strengthening of its European routes. According to the airline's management, the increase in European routes is part of the airline's new strategy to position itself solely as a 'network' airline rather than a 'network' airline.