airports

Things are - at last - getting back to normal at Europe's airports. At least, that's the message from Schiphol's management. Amsterdam airport will soon be lifting the restrictions that still cap its traffic. With the start of the summer season on 26 March, the Dutch hub will no longer be setting any limits...

2022 has been a year of recovery for air transport around the world, and particularly in Europe. But, at the same time, it will also have been the year of chaos in air transport management. Staff shortages, strikes and adverse weather conditions will have particularly affected passengers on...

Panic in American skies. On Tuesday night, the Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM) broke down. A major failure, which forced the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to cancel all take-offs from American airports for several hours. "The FAA ordered...

A tweet from Fnaut Ile-de-France, the transport users' association, has once again put the spotlight on the Orly TGV station project. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, also "liked" the tweet. Unlike previous projects, which placed the station as close as possible to or even underneath the southern Paris airport,...

What are the Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur Group's priorities for 2023? What objectives in terms of passenger traffic or airlines present in Nice? Franck Goldnadel - The Group's priority is to support the upturn in air traffic at all our hubs, while taking environmental issues into account. The...

Travelling by plane also means having to put up with the inconvenience of security rules for hand luggage checks. The requirement to limit liquid containers to 100 ml and to remove all electronic devices from hand luggage seems unavoidable. And yet... In Japan, for example, it has been a long time since...

Two lounges, two atmospheres: while Delta Air Lines is tightening the conditions of access to its Sky Club catalogue, Star Alliance is gradually opening the doors of its lounges to passengers of all classes. And for the first time in Europe. After Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, it is now the turn of...

Barely open to the public, the recently renovated Terminal 1 at Roissy Charles de Gaulle is temporarily hosting the operations of Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific. Since 8 December, the Chinese carrier's aircraft have been landing and departing from this terminal. Passengers will now check in at Hall 1 of Terminal...

London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow: these are the airports that will be affected by the Border Force agents' strike. The strike begins on 23 December and will last for eight days. December 27 should not be affected. According to Cirium data relayed by Reuters, these are...

There is, of course, the symbolic dimension. That of the reopening of a legendary terminal - it will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2024 - at a major hub, after almost three years of closure due to a health crisis. There is also, from the point of view of passengers, a very pragmatic importance: that of access to...

From major international hubs to smaller hubs, the decarbonisation drive at French airports is mobilising the entire industry. So much so that international bodies are now hailing the exemplary role played by French airports, as was the case at the fourth annual congress of French airports &...

Following on from the SNCF, which recently announced a major photovoltaic electricity purchase contract, the ADP group has just seen the materialisation of an agreement signed in February 2020 with producer Urbasolar and GazelEnergie, an electricity supplier specialising in the aggregation of renewable energies. While the contract provided for the creation of three photovoltaic solar farms, the...

Oil prices have risen by 50% in the space of a year, salaries have been revised upwards in the face of inflation, and the dollar - the sector's currency of exchange - has appreciated by 40% against the euro: like all economic players, the air transport sector is experiencing strong pressure on its production costs. "Faced with...

Beauvais Tillé considers itself to be the "third Paris airport", despite its rather considerable distance - the hub is 77km from Paris itself. With no dedicated rail transport, the airport is accessible by shuttle bus from Porte Maillot. The journey generally takes 1 hour 15 minutes or more. So what are the advantages of...

Biometrics is nothing new at Dubai airport. Innovative by nature, the hub has already deployed this technology in terminal 3 to offer a seamless travel experience for Emirates passengers. However, on condition that they are residents of the United Arab Emirates or nationals of countries belonging to the United Nations Cooperation Council (UNCC), the...

After a test phase starting in July 2021, the SNCF is today launching its new "Train + Plane" (ex-TGVAIR) digital ticket in partnership with twelve airlines, including Air France, which has already switched to this solution since last summer and sold 40,000 tickets. The new service is designed to be entirely digital and does not require...

The gradual lifting of restrictions on Hong Kong over the last few months has led to a resumption of air traffic to and from the Chinese metropolis. It remains modest, of course. The airport's official figures for October show traffic of 755,000 passengers. An increase of 447.9% compared with October 2021. But only...

Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg has just announced its winter season. The hub on the borders of Alsace, German-speaking Switzerland and the Black Forest will offer a network to 70 destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The timetable, valid until 25 March 2023, includes a number of new features. Starting with easyJet. The...

Copenhagen will thus become the fortieth destination served by easyJet from Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. The airline made the new route official on Wednesday, and it is expected to be available in summer 2023. On the occasion, easyJet stressed that this year it was celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Nice base, and the progress made since its arrival on the Côte d'Azur.

Air traffic in France continues to improve, according to the latest statistics from the DGAC covering the period January-August. The number of passengers in mainland France in August represented 87.5% of its 2019 traffic level and 77.1% cumulatively since January. This translates into traffic of 94...