airports

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...

With another day of general strikes against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Thursday 6 April, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted, but to a lesser extent than during previous strikes. As far as air travel is concerned, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) is not forecasting any disruption...

Since the beginning of 2023, Aéroports de Paris (ADP Group) and the Border Police (PAF) have entered a new era together: one of cooperation that aims to be both qualitative and quantitative. On the latter point, a new tool has been put in place, with a brand new...

Business travellers can expect major disruption to their journeys to and from London Heathrow airport at the end of the month. A pay dispute is due to lead to a ten-day strike. More than 1,400 security staff have voted in favour of the strike. It will begin on Friday 31 March, and will last...

After announcing an ambitious airport lounge strategy last year, Delta is rejuvenating and expanding its Delta Sky Club catalogue. The airline has just inaugurated a new lounge at Kansas City. The airport recently completed a major renovation project costing 1.5 billion dollars. "...

A black day for Lufthansa and Frankfurt airport. The German carrier and its hub were severely disrupted on Wednesday by a computer breakdown. This led to the suspension of most landings and the cancellation of many flights. In order to avoid any speculation linked to the geopolitical context, the two players involved quickly...

The results for 2019 are still a long way off for the major airports in South-East Asia. But all the region's hubs returned to growth last year, putting an end to the vertiginous fall in passenger traffic that they had experienced in 2021. On average, passenger traffic at these major airports rose by...

It's time to take stock at Caen-Carpiquet airport, whose management presented its 2022 results on 31 January. The Caen hub had a good year, welcoming no fewer than 301,395 passengers last year. Caen-Carpiquet therefore significantly exceeded the traffic forecast for 2021, with growth of almost 33%. Above all,...

The arrival of the tramway at Bordeaux Mérignac airport is becoming clearer. This 25 January marked the start of unladen trial runs. The aim is to inaugurate this new 5 km section, which will include as many new stations, in the spring. These are Mérignac Soleil, Chemin Long, Cadera Issartier, Caroline Aigle and...