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The ADP group, which manages the Paris airports, has revised its traffic forecasts for 2020 downwards. The second wave of the covid pandemic sweeping across Europe is expected to result in a fall in passenger traffic of between 65% and 70% for the whole of 2020. Previous forecasts were still betting...

Since Thursday 22 October, Marseille Provence airport has been the first French hub to be equipped with the new antigen tests, which promise to provide passengers with the results in less than 20 minutes. Officials at the Marseille hub say that this trial phase will be rapidly followed by official deployment. This is scheduled for Monday 26...

At a recent seminar, Dave Thomson, Skyscanner's senior technology expert, sketched out what travel could be like in the post-Covid era. The expert predicts an increase in contactless technology, scanner identification, pre-booked security checks, health kiosks, disinfection robots and even...

Available only on the Apple App Store for the time being, Check & Fly should soon be available on Android smartphones. The app allows airports to communicate to passengers the measures they should expect, helping them to comply with health and safety requirements. "The resumption of air travel will depend on the confidence...

The images seem to belong to another era. And yet it was only a year ago... At the time, airline advertisements showed business travellers relaxing at the bar in an airport lounge, flight attendants transforming an armchair into a comfortable bed. Since then, a disaster has struck the air transport industry and...

When it comes to planning a trip, travellers today have two major concerns. Could borders suddenly close during the trip? Or could the ticket finally be cancelled for lack of passengers? Fortunately, the Paris Orly-Berlin Tegel flight offered by easyJet on 11 August will not be one of them. Back on 23 July, the British low-cost carrier confirmed...

A biometric journey from home to the plane: that's the promise of Mona, the new high-tech travel companion offered by Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport. Thanks to this free 100 % service, travellers will be able to pass through the various airport checkpoints, from baggage drop-off to boarding, without any physical contact, simply by presenting their faces...

This is the information that the Eurocontrol agency reveals every week. For several weeks now, Amsterdam Schiphol has been the airport with the highest number of aircraft movements in Europe. On Wednesday 26 August, the Dutch hub recorded 772 aircraft movements, up 2% on the week of 12 August. Amsterdam thus overtakes...

2020 will go down as one of the most difficult years for Strasbourg airport. After the COVID crisis, which halted all traffic for two months with the exception of medical, freight and repatriation flights, Strasbourg is now faced with the restructuring of the Air France group, with the cessation of flights in the near future...

Air France is gaining momentum at Orly by resuming services to Nice as well as Biarritz and Montpellier. On the latter two routes, however, it will have to rely on the return of EasyJet. This August, EasyJet is launching a regular service between Paris airport and Biarritz and Montpellier. The decision...

Lufthansa's Airport Express service has been around for decades. As far back as the 1980s, Lufthansa innovated by running Deutsche Bundesbahn trains from Düsseldorf, Cologne and the former federal capital Bonn, as well as from Stuttgart, to the mainline station at Frankfurt airport. The trains were painted in Lufthansa colours...

Transavia had the honour of reopening the ball at Orly. 13 years after its very first flight - already to Porto - and above all 13 weeks after the closure of the Paris airport, the French airline took off for the Portuguese airport, and relaunched the machine to the south of Paris. For the occasion, as for a...

It's time for Lyon airport to start operating again, with the gradual reopening of flights to business and leisure destinations. Since 8 June, Air France has resumed domestic flights to Nantes, Bordeaux and Toulouse, in addition to the KLM flight to the Amsterdam hub. The Air France group...

Gulf airlines have been brooding over the health crisis, with global air traffic at a virtual standstill for the past three months. The region has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, with traffic essentially based on transfer passengers. In Dubai, the world's leading airport in terms of traffic...

Enabling air transport to take off again on the basis of globally harmonised rules. This is the objective of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which has just unveiled its recommendations in the "Takeoff" report, produced after consultation with numerous stakeholders including the WHO, Airports Council International (ACI) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). So...

The Prime Minister's speech on 28 May kick-started a vast recovery movement in French airspace. In the wake of these announcements - and in particular the lifting of the 100 km restriction on travel - the ADP group made official the date of 26 June for the reopening...

While the government has just unveiled the details of the second phase of deconfinement - and the return to mobility in France and then Europe - Nice airport is doing the sums. And at a time when many players in the travel industry are counting their losses and waves of redundancies, this is yet another...

While the airline industry has been in the doldrums for many weeks, good news from airport operators is rare enough to merit a mention. On Tuesday, the ADP Group congratulated itself on the encouraging performance of the two Paris hubs, following the publication of the Skytrax 2020 rankings. Indeed, Paris...

The process of decontamination is gathering pace in Europe, with many EU countries announcing the gradual lifting of the restrictions that had brought travel to a complete standstill for more than two months. Italy announced the return of travellers on 3 June, the first country not to ask for certificates of non-contamination, contenting itself with a declaration...

More and more health measures are being taken in the airline industry, both to curb the Covid-19 pandemic and to reassure travellers. A few days ago, Air France launched systematic screening of passengers before boarding, using infrared thermometers. And back in April, Etihad Airways announced that it was testing a new technology...