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How do you feel about developments in the airline industry? Sergio Colella - The desire to start travelling again is there. I've just come back from two or three trips to Europe and for the first time I've seen queues at airports. I have to say that it's quite pleasing...

The first weekend in June was a feverish time at British airports. With the announcement by Boris Johnson's government that Portugal had been placed on the 'amber' list, thousands of British passengers rushed home. In order to avoid a mandatory 10-day quarantine... Apart from this temporary fever...

Travellers in the south-east of France have been eagerly awaiting the return of the Emirates colours to the tarmacs of Nice and Lyon. Now they finally know: on Tuesday, the airline unveiled its schedule for the resumption of flights, which will be based on the relaxation of entry conditions, sparing vaccinated travellers from the United Arab Emirates the...

Before the covid pandemic, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport was linked to some 120 destinations in 44 countries around the world. It was also the airport - outside Paris - with the highest number of long-haul flights. The airport now hopes to quickly regain this status. The 2021 summer schedule seems to support this recovery strategy. The...

American Airlines has just taken possession of a new terminal for its regional routes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, including 14 boarding gates. The new 22,500 m² facility can handle several thousand passengers a day. Designed in cooperation with the airport authorities, the terminal has a capacity of 850 seats. Coming soon...

On 8 April, Alaska Airlines made official its intention to open a new airport lounge at its San Francisco hub (SFO) by next summer. Located in Terminal 2, the lounge will replace the former American Airlines Admirals Club lounge. "So many people are dreaming of travelling this year, so we want to open...

This is a historic recovery plan, rivalled only by Roosevelt's New Deal after the Great Depression. Or the Marshall Plan, the US aid package for Europe after the Second World War. US President Joe Biden's 'American Jobs Plan' provides for a budget of 2,000 billion dollars...

American Airlines has just announced a series of tests deployed at its Dallas Fort Worth hub, with a common denominator: the contactless passenger journey. The airline intends to change the airport experience in order to regain the trust of travellers: "While fewer customers have travelled over the past year, our...

With passenger traffic in 2020 only a third of what it was in 2019 (70 million in 2020 compared with 214 million in 2019), France's airports are gearing up to win back the market. According to Thomas Juin, Chairman of the Union des Aéroports...

We suspected it, but the Union of French Airports (UAF) has confirmed it. 2020 will have seen a collapse in traffic on a scale hitherto unknown in the history of French air transport. Last year, French airports welcomed 70.045 million passengers, a fall of 67.3% compared with 2019. The number of flights reached 898...

2020 will have had devastating effects on European air transport, including that of the United Kingdom. The results of IAG and the major UK airports, published last week, give a very clear idea of the extent of the damage. If we start with IAG - the holding company bringing together British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus -...

The losses incurred by air travel in Great Britain as a result of the pandemic are forcing London Heathrow airport authorities to go after passengers' wallets. On Sunday 28 February, the airport authority announced that departing passengers will now have to pay a supplement of £8.90 (€10.30). This measure, which the airport hopes will be temporary, will enable...

No real surprises on the financial results for French air transport. 2020 has been confirmed as the worst year ever for Air France-KLM. The bi-national tandem suffered a historic loss of 7.1 billion euros. By way of comparison, the biggest loss recorded by the group in the 2009-2010 financial year was "only" 1.6 billion euros....

Driven by the new health context, airlines are speeding up their move towards contactless travel. The latest example comes from Madrid airport, where Iberia recently launched a trial phase with Inetum, Thales, airport operator AENA and the Spanish Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI). The airline...

What does the Affinidi Unifier project involve? Nicholas Foo - As you can imagine, these days everyone wants to open up their borders to boost the economy, but no one really knows how... In Singapore, passenger volumes have fallen to 98 %. And as in other countries, the recovery depends on the reopening of the...

Construction of a new terminal began in Stuttgart, the Federal Administrative Court gave the final go-ahead for work on the new Munich airport, and Lufthansa began training its first female airline pilots. The year was 1986, and German air transport was entering a phase of rapid development. Until 2020. The year 1986...

A major surprise in Asia: the region's busiest international airport in 2020 will now be Seoul Incheon in Korea. The hub has dethroned Hong Kong, which is now probably the fourth, if not the fifth busiest international airport on the continent. The first figures for Asia's airports come on...

At a time when Parisian transport - and in particular services to Orly and Paris-CDG airports - does not always get a good press, RATP has chosen Orlyval to introduce a "world first in LCD": four intelligent windows have been installed on one of the shuttles since 26 January, with the other seven Orlyval trains due to be...

Munich is Germany's second-largest airport, with almost 48 million passengers in 2019. Its growth has been exponential, with passenger traffic up by almost 40% between 2010 and 2019. This growth has been supported by Lufthansa, which has made Munich its second hub. The airport is regularly...

Biometrics, contactless applications, self check-in: the pandemic is accelerating the digitalisation of the passenger journey in planes and airports. Robots and biometrics for the post-covid era Contactless technology, biometrics, robots: spurred on by the pandemic, the digitalisation of the passenger journey is gathering pace (13 October 2020). Digital technology to the rescue of passengers The ACI (Airports...