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Wide benches made up of 'boudins' of various sizes, relaxing armchairs, games tables and a fountain. All lit up by designer street lamps and enlivened by sculptures whose shapes evoke the architecture of the Pompidou Centre. Since 14 April, a unique boarding lounge has been open to passengers in terminal 2G at...

This spring, 25 of these kiosks made their appearance in terminal 3 of the Dubai hub. These 25 Emirates-branded mobile check-in kiosks are designed to replace the fixed kiosks and reduce waiting times for business and leisure travellers. The kiosks will eventually be deployed in all check-in halls...

This might be anecdotal if Manchester were not the UK's largest regional airport. In 2019, before the Covid pandemic, Manchester welcomed 29.37 million passengers. Twice as many as Nice airport, France's largest regional airport. The airport has flights to around a hundred destinations, including around twenty intercontinental destinations. During...

Basel/Mulhouse EuroAirport, the third-largest airport in Switzerland and the leading airport in eastern France, is once again offering more than 90 direct destinations in its timetable for the summer 2022 season (valid until 29 October). The range includes destinations in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Morocco, Egypt, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Portugal...

London City Airport, a favourite with many business travellers because of its proximity to the City, is getting back on track with the return of its "core target". On 21 March, the London hub published some encouraging results on the road to pre-Covid normality. One of the key indicators was...

214 million, 70 million and 90.7 million. These are the figures for passenger traffic at French airports between 2019 and 2021. After plummeting in 2020, the number of passengers using France's airports has confirmed its upturn. But it remains relatively small in scale compared with the dip between 2019 and 2021....

Nice airport will therefore - quite logically - be joining the club of summer destinations served by Etihad. On Monday, the airline announced the launch of this seasonal flight between Nice and Abu Dhabi on 15 June. Etihad will operate two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. The flights will be operated in...

"The most modern international hub in South America" is how ADP describes the new terminal inaugurated on 26 February in Santiago de Chile. The French group was in charge of this vast project - its cost is the highest in the history of concessions...

29.1 million passengers in its terminals by 2021. Dubai International Airport (DXB) has seen some recovery over the past year, although growth remains disappointing. As elsewhere in the world, air traffic at the Middle East's leading hub had to contend with successive waves of the pandemic. Above all, the airport was...

"Resolutely confident", "Results beyond our forecasts": on the occasion of the publication of the 2021 results, the management of Caen airport sent out "positive vibes" to an aviation market that is emerging from a particularly gloomy period. It has to be said that the Normandy hub has indeed bounced back...

What are the key points of the Air Transport IT Insights 2021 report published by SITA? Sergio Colella - This report shows that Covid is playing a role in accelerating digitalisation. We see this in our everyday lives, and inevitably in the air transport sector. For almost ten years now, we have been interviewing...

We console ourselves as best we can. Recently, Channel News Asia was singing the praises of Singapore Changi airport. It has to be said that CNA is an emanation of the Singaporean government. So it's only fair that the channel should support an institution like Changi. CNA headlined the story...

Germany's 28 commercial airports welcomed just over 78.7 million passengers in 2021, the second year of the pandemic. The German Airports Association ADV considers this a success - even if the 2021 figures are still a long way off the record set in 2019. German airport traffic is still...

While speculation is rife over ITA's capital, the Italian airline is working to enhance the travel experience for its business customers. This is illustrated by the opening of the "Piazza di Spagna" lounges at Rome Fiumicino airport and the "Piazza della Scala" at Milan Linate, announced on 19 January. The latter has taken up residence...

According to figures released on 17 January by the ADP Group, total traffic at all the airports managed by the ADP Group rose by 37.2 % in 2021, with 160.0 million passengers handled. This represents 45.6 % of the Group's traffic for 2019. However, the results at...

Air traffic at Geneva Cointrin continued to be affected by the Covid 19 pandemic in 2021. Geneva Airport welcomed 5.92 million passengers in 2021, compared with 5.60 million in 2020. This is 5.8% more than in 2020 but 67% less passenger traffic than in 2019. That year, the airport...

A fine result despite the restrictions that continued to hit the air transport industry in 2021. That's how we can describe the performance of Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Qatar. The airport is the second largest hub in the Middle East behind eternal rival Dubai. In 2021, HIA recorded an increase of 41.37% in traffic...

An upturn, but no flamboyant figures for 2021. That's how you might characterise last year's traffic figures at Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport, one of the very first hubs in Europe to report results. In 2020, the airport welcomed just over 9 million passengers. Including 5.6 million...

ACI Europe, the European airports association, has published the first preliminary data on the impact of the Omicron variant on European passenger traffic. Following South Africa's public announcement of the new variant to the WHO, it is estimated that in the 3-week period that followed (weeks 47 to 49), passenger traffic in...

The reopening of the United States to European travellers in 2022 should generate a strong flow of traffic between the two continents. This is the gamble being taken by most of the airlines serving this strategic route. This is particularly true of British Airways. The British carrier operates its transatlantic routes as part of a joint venture,...