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The ACI Europe 2023 Airport Connectivity Report shows that Europe is lagging behind in terms of traffic recovery. It also reveals how post-COVID recovery models are impacting the aviation market. And it also affects the passengers and communities for whom connectivity is key...

This is the first major makeover to be given to the North terminal departure lounge since it opened in... 1988! London Gatwick's management has pulled out all the stops for this vast renovation, which was officially launched on Tuesday but work actually began at the end of May. No less than...

Alaska Airlines is stepping up its initiatives aimed at business customers. The latest example: the airline has decided to connect its Mileage Plan frequent flyer programme to Clear Plus. Frequent flyers will be able to join this biometrics-based queue-cutting system at a reduced rate. Clear Plus is presented as a...

Relations between airlines and airports are rarely rosy. So while the airline association IATA was celebrating a return to juicy profits, its airport equivalent, the ACI, was lamenting the rise in air fares. Particularly in Asia. According to a study by the ACI Asia-Pacific on trends in air fares,...

Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has a sulphurous reputation. That of being the worst airport in Asia. Despite having four terminals - two of which are for international flights - the airport is completely saturated, offers a very mediocre quality of service and has been suffering regular power cuts since December. The most recent power cut occurred last week...

For many travellers, especially business travellers, this service could not be more practical: they no longer have to worry about their luggage and can move freely around the city before catching their plane. Since 5 June, the Accor group has been working with start-up Alltheway to make it possible to check in...

Air France, Air Liquide, Novotel, Sécuritas, Suez: these are just some of the 33 signatories of the alliance unveiled this week by the ADP Group. This "Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance" is designed to position the Paris airport at the forefront of the sector's environmental transformation. Justine Coutard explains the approach as follows: "With the creation of the Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance,...

With another day of strikes against pension reform scheduled for Tuesday 6 June, business travel in France is likely to be only slightly disrupted, with the exception of air travel. The French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to reduce the number of flights on many platforms....

Launched in 2017 under the name "The Private Suite", PS offers a premium alternative to airport terminals by advocating an exclusive travel experience, taking inspiration from luxury hospitality to enhance commercial flights. After Los Angeles, and with Atlanta to come this summer and Dallas Fort Worth next spring, we now know where...

Reconciling the filming of a blockbuster or the next hit series with the normal running of an international airport: it's not an impossible task... Provided you bring together a cast of specialists. This is the role of Paris Aéroport Studios, set up by the ADP Group. Here we meet Céline Bianchi, who is in charge of the project for the airport...

If the world of aviation is happy to invite itself into the world of cinema, the latter is happy to oblige... No matter how studious business travellers may be, who hasn't enjoyed painting a picture at 30,000 feet? All the more so since, in their race for excellence to attract premium customers, the airlines...

Interior. Cockpit. Night. The pilot turns to his co-pilot and announces that he has definitely lost control of the aircraft. It's a scenario that Boeing passengers will want to avoid during their transatlantic flight, especially if they suffer from a fear of flying. Fortunately, the long love affair between air travel and...

The study, entitled "Fierce Competitors, Fragile Foes", builds on a Frontier Economics study published earlier this year, which analyses recent and future developments in the European air transport industry. Both studies examine how competition between airports is working and how it is evolving, with competition between airports now strongly...

Brussels International Airport is once again flirting with a network of connections around the world close to what it was in 2019. This summer, no fewer than 175 direct destinations are served from Brussels Airport by 58 airlines. Three years ago, however, the airport had almost 200. The...

Strikes had an impact on air traffic levels in France in the first quarter. Admittedly, the latter remains positive, with travel demand extremely strong. However, it has lost some of its strength compared with the initial forecast trajectory. According to ADP Group statistics, traffic at the two Paris hubs, Roissy CDG and...

Beauvais, Ajaccio, Calvi as well as Paris-Orly, Bastia, Biarritz, Marseille, Montpellier and Nice. The first three will have managed to have passenger traffic above that of 2019. As for the other six airports on this list, they recorded a fall below the national average. In all, 14 airports in mainland France recorded...

Belgrade airport is thinking bigger: by the end of the year, the gateway to the Serbian capital will have a new, more modern and more practical look for travellers. Under the leadership of the Vinci Airports group, the hub has begun its transformation, as part of a project costing 732 million euros.

Beauvais airport, 90 km north of Paris, has to manage its success. The hub, set in the middle of the fields of the Picardy plain, is in fact the only French airport to have managed to exceed in 2022 the traffic of the key year 2019, the last before the Covid crisis. Last year, Beauvais was...

Hardly a week goes by without Amsterdam airport making the headlines. This time, it is the presentation of a new plan to reduce activity by the Royal Schiphol Group airport authority and a ruling by a Dutch court that have put the spotlight back on the Air France-KLM hub. On 3 April,...

Some observers sometimes doubt the legitimacy of Skytrax's World Airport Awards. But these rankings, which are based on votes cast by passengers around the world, give an idea of how the quality of service at airports and on airlines is evolving. On 15 March, the consultant published its survey...