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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...

It's this week's bad news. Airports Association International (ACI) has just revised its traffic forecasts for 2020. And the picture is even bleaker. Airports Council International (ACI) World has published an updated model showing the worsening economic impact on the global airport industry. The predicted impacts and prolonged effects of...

What concrete physical measures will be taken to comply with health and social safety distances, and are they the same in France and Switzerland? Matthias Suhr - Our absolute priority is to protect the health of our passengers and employees by adapting our operating procedures appropriately. EuroAirport complies...

All passengers arriving in Austria must present a health certificate showing a negative result to the Covid 19 test (no more than 4 days old). Since Monday 4 May, passengers who so wish have been able to undergo a so-called "PCR" test directly at Vienna International Airport - quick and simple, and the result is...

Aéroport Marseille Provence (AMP) is a typical example of an airport company faced with a unique situation: a pandemic leading to the almost complete suspension of air transport. "If you want an idea of our activity, before the crisis we were carrying between 20,000 and 30,000 passengers a day. Today we are...

From the end of April, Etihad will be embarking on an unprecedented experiment in air transport health monitoring. Abu Dhabi airport, the airline's hub, will be equipped with self-service kiosks on which passengers' temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate will be measured....

After London City Airport, which closed its doors last week, it is now London Gatwick's turn to announce the closure of its North Terminal from 1 April. This terminal handled all the flights of the airlines easyJet, Emirates, Qatar Airways and Virgin Atlantic. The airport also operates a reduced schedule, from...

The Russian government is closing its airspace at 0:00 on Friday 27 March, allowing only flights by national carriers to repatriate Russian citizens stranded abroad. The announcement was made at a time when experts believe that Russia could experience an Italian-style scenario without strong quarantine measures. On Wednesday,...

Between 1 and 14 March, the estimated fall in passenger traffic and the number of aircraft movements accelerated at the Paris airports, according to ADP, with an estimated decline of 29 % for the combined traffic of the two airports. But the decline has since accelerated, with the authorities estimating that air traffic...