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Arriving from Delhi and connecting to Seattle? Why not take a break to admire the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre? Air France and Extime Travel have just launched Paris Stopover, a new offer designed to transform layovers at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport into genuine tourist stays. Designed and operated by Extime Travel,...

Approved in 2015 by the National Assembly of Vietnam, with construction beginning in 2021, Long Thanh International Airport, which will serve Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), will finally open its doors on December 1st, 2026. Located 40 km east of the southern Vietnamese metropolis, the new hub will gradually become the main international gateway to Ho...

Western Sydney International Airport will open its doors for the IATA winter season, starting at the end of October. For now, four airlines have confirmed the launch of flights from what will become the Australian metropolis's second airport. However, this is a minimal programme for an infrastructure that is intended to support the airport of...

CDG Express is picking up the pace. Following the connection of the tracks and the remote control centre last weekend, the company has just unveiled the fares that will apply to passengers travelling between Gare de l'Est and Roissy-CDG Airport from 28 March 2027. It will cost...

It took 11 years for the terminal to welcome its first passengers and aircraft. A duration that, in fact, corresponded to the planning and which Fraport did not fail to proudly highlight. Indeed, it's a far cry from the dithering and delays of Berlin Brandenburg International Airport; or the construction of the...

For two to three years now, Strasbourg Airport has been showing signs of recovery, emerging from the shadow that the nearby platforms of Basel-Mulhouse and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden still cast over air traffic in the city. The airport of the Alsatian and European capital benefits partly from the tremendous traffic growth generated by Volotea. The carrier...

Despite the return of spring, the Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport will be in quasi-hibernation from April 15th to May 20th. The reason? The closure of the airport platform's main runway for a deep renovation, forcing management to drastically reduce the number of flights during these five weeks. Only the runway…

It will be the next major European country to have a fully-fledged high-speed rail network. Poland has finally moved from the planning phase to the actual implementation of its future network. At the end of last year, the government launched a call for tenders for the construction of its new high-speed...

4.4 million passengers passed through Brussels Airport in 2025. On the face of it, this is not too unfavourable a result, since traffic growth was 3.3 % compared with 2024. However, the airport authorities explain that this growth is lower than expected. This was due to seven nationwide industrial actions, which cost...

The future of African air transport will be built 40 km south of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. This is where the future Bishoftu International Airport (BIA) will be built, the hub of Ethiopian Airlines, already Africa's leading airline with 19 million passengers and 150 destinations. The hub will be built...

Aer Lingus is preparing to turn the page in Manchester. The Irish airline has confirmed that it will be ceasing long-haul operations from the British airport, a major European hub. Manchester is expected to welcome more than 32 million passengers by 2025, and is linked to around ten cities in...

Ethiopian Airlines will continue its expansion in France in 2026. The Ethiopian carrier will be serving Lyon airport. But with one of the shortest stopovers on offer: Geneva. The only real hub airline in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopian Airlines will be offering three flights a week from...

During the winter season, the EuroAirport is linked by 24 airlines to 88 destinations in 33 countries. The network is mainly focused on the European continent and North Africa. With the notable exception of Dubai and Tel Aviv in the Near and Middle East. The new timetable is valid until 28 March 2026. New routes...

According to the latest figures released by Marseille airport, summer traffic did not reach last year's record levels due to external events in July. The air traffic controllers' strike and the huge fires around the airport led to the cancellation of almost 400 flights. But the airport also points out that...

Seoul's Incheon airport is a gigantic infrastructure that welcomed more than 71.16 million passengers last year. This can make travellers feel lost in the vastness of the halls. And the logical decision by Korean Air to integrate a guide to its hub into its application. Based on the public Open API...

After Warsaw shot down 19 Russian drones over its territory with the support of NATO aircraft, additional security measures have been adopted by the civil aviation authorities. At the request of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command, a restricted zone has been active since Wednesday evening in the part of Warsaw...

As guest of honour at IFTM 2025, the Dominican Republic is asserting its ambitions to further enhance its attractiveness in terms of business and leisure tourism. In July 2024, VINCI Airports made official an investment of some thirty million dollars to modernise the infrastructure of Santo Domingo airport: Las Americas (AILA). A year later, in August...

Good news after a decade of waiting. The new Long Than mega-airport serving Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding region is nearing completion. The hub, 40 km from the old Saigon, will officially open its doors on 19 December 2025. The transfer of flights should begin in the first few months of 2026, once the...

It's time for the business travel industry to take stock. Toulouse airport has just published its figures for the second quarter. And as might be expected, the closure of the easyJet base has not been without consequences for the Toulouse hub... Between 1 April and 30 June, Toulouse-Blagnac airport recorded...

Marseille Provence airport is breaking new ground by introducing an intuitive voice assistant based on artificial intelligence. The result is a dozen "conversational agents", in the form of human-sized signs. They are located in strategic areas of the terminal, to answer passengers' practical questions: "Where is the gate?