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As it celebrates its 70th anniversary, Scandinavian Airlines is not the kind of airline to look to the past. On the contrary, it has just announced an ambitious plan to modernise its short- and medium-haul fleet, with an investment of over 50 million euros (SEK 500 million). This vast overhaul will include the introduction of a...

American airlines are now rivalling each other in the quality of the products they offer business travellers. After United, which last June presented its highly innovative Polaris cabin, it is now Delta's turn to unveil its new business class. With a unique suite concept, this is the first business cabin to offer a separate cabin for business...

The refreshing thing about the English language is that effective, 'impactful', even terribly marketing neologisms flourish all year round. In the hit parade of new start-ups in the business travel category, bleisure has featured prominently for several months now, if not a few years. This clever contraction of 'business' and 'leisure' sums up the mix in eight letters...

Last year, when Finnair brought the Airbus A350XWB into service, it was the first Scandinavian airline to offer its passengers the possibility of surfing the Internet. The airline took the opportunity to announce that it was going to equip its entire fleet of long-haul aircraft with WiFi. And the gamble paid off, as from...

Were you surprised by the results of the study on bleisure that Transavia has just published? Hervé Kozar - Yes, we were surprised by the results, which are very instructive. Business travellers from small companies and start-ups have adopted a different behaviour. When I mentioned bleisure, I was thinking of the...

Business travellers may regularly ply the corridors of airports, but they are no less exposed to the various hassles that accompany air travel. Quite the contrary, in fact. From access to the terminal to arrival at your destination, there are a number of anxiety-inducing stages, which a study published by Liligo attempts to decipher. The travel search engine...

Have the Cassandras cried out louder than the rest? Following the vote on 23 June confirming the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, many analysts were predicting a drop in air traffic to the country due to the expected economic uncertainties and a wave of panic among investors. ForwardKeys, an independent...

With 1.83 million passengers a year, Salzburg is Austria's second busiest airport, behind Vienna. The hub, located just a few kilometres from the border with Upper Bavaria, is set to quickly reach the two million passenger mark thanks to the creation of a Eurowings base. The arrival of the low-cost carrier will boost traffic...

First there was the Scandinavia-Thailand route, with Norwegian Air - which serves Bangkok from Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm; then Cologne-Bangkok and Cologne-Phuket with Germany's Eurowings. Next year, it will be the turn of Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, to take the plunge and land in Athens. Lee Lik Hsin, CEO of Budget Aviation Holdings...

It was a crazy, almost surreal dream, but one that reflected the extravagance of a bygone era. In the 1970s, Playboy boss Hugh Hefner travelled the world in his private jet, a DC9. Scandinavian leather armchairs, an elliptical bed covered in Tasmanian possum skins, a shower: the cabin was more reminiscent of a...

Since Jet Airways relocated its European hub to Amsterdam last March, Belgian business travellers have had no direct options for reaching the Indian market and its economic opportunities. Brussels Airlines is set to fill this gap from March, with the launch of a new flight...

The vast investment plan (US$3 billion) undertaken by American Airlines to improve the passenger experience continues to bear fruit for business travellers. The airline has just unveiled the new look of the Arrivals lounge, which now welcomes travellers to Terminal 3 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.

Oman Air will soon be offering daily services between Paris and Muscat. The airline has just made official the densification of its French catalogue, which will result in an increase of 29% in its offer in terms of capacity compared to 2015. The addition of a seventh weekly flight will start on 30 October. Business travellers will then be able to leave the airport...

"Passenger demand is losing momentum as terrorism and economic uncertainty take their toll on traffic" is the title of the report published on 4 August by the International Air Transport Association. According to the statistics released on the occasion by IATA, the trend remains upwards, with demand during the month...

British Airways' Boeing 747-400s, which are on average 20 years old, have been given a new lease of life, now offering the same standards of comfort as the airline's Airbus A380s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners. "The iconic Boeing 747 remains an important part of our fleet, and one that many of our customers love," said...

According to statistics released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), the first half of 2016 saw a 6.2% increase in the number of passengers on the international routes of the association's member airlines. This represents a total of 144 million passengers and a load factor of 77.9%, up very slightly on the same period last year.

Air France KLM maintained its growth in the first half of 2016, carrying 38.62 million passengers, an increase of 2% compared with the same period in 2015. Capacity - expressed in available seat kilometres (ASK)...

The shareholders of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America have approved the merger of the two airlines announced last April. With this hurdle cleared, the two airlines are expected to formally confirm their merger in the fourth quarter of this year. The new entity will offer 1,200 daily departures from its hubs in Seattle, Anchorage and Portland, to which will now be added those of...

Thai Airways International seems to be over its period in the wilderness. The Thai airline has confirmed the expansion of its intercontinental network with the resumption of certain routes abandoned during its restructuring in 2013 and 2014. The national carrier has announced that it will be returning to Moscow from Bangkok from...

AirBerlin, Germany's second largest airline after Lufthansa, continues to struggle to return to profit. The German business daily Handelsblatt has reported that Lufthansa is ready to buy back air routes from its rival and allocate them to its low-cost subsidiary Eurowings. According to Handelsblatt, Lufthansa has contacted the shareholder of Airberlin, the Emirates airline...