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In the end, it took Qatar two years to fully absorb the shock of the blockade launched in June 2017 by its neighbours - essentially Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. This measure resulted in a total ban on Qatar-registered airlines - essentially Qatar Airways...

Machine translation is clearly high on the list of airline flight plans for 2020. A few days after the deployment of the Pocketalk tool to All Nippon Airways' teams, and while British Airways is preparing to launch its Bill robot, also equipped with a translation system, American Airlines is working on a...

Haneda airport has one major advantage: it is located just 30 minutes by public transport from the heart of Tokyo, compared with over an hour for the Narita hub. This advantage is also supported by the local authorities, as the Japanese government is helping Haneda to grow by freeing up air slots. The recent award of...

Air travel is becoming more intuitive, with passengers taking greater control of technology and offering more à la carte products. According to various surveys carried out among passengers, this reflects their desire for a faster, less intrusive and partially automated service. Both airlines and airports are responding...

British Airways' new recruit, Bill, will make his debut at London Heathrow airport in early 2020. This autonomous robot, equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), a geolocation system and 360-degree sensors, will roam around Terminal 5, guiding travellers to their final destination...

Faced with the collapse in tourism in 2003-2004 as a result of the avian influenza epidemic (SARS) - which hit Hong Kong and Singapore particularly hard - Singapore Airlines decided to cancel services to half a dozen cities, including Brussels, Madrid and Vienna airports in Europe. While Madrid and Vienna will still have to...

That was thirty years ago, and what was then the Orly West terminal was home to Lufthansa flights to Germany, among others, while Hungarian Malev's planes took off for Budapest from Orly Sud. Lufthansa moved to Roissy at the end of the 80s, Malev has disappeared. From next summer, the planes...

Since Thursday, Skyteam business travellers have been able to enjoy the new lounge inaugurated by the alliance at the new Istanbul airport. Located in the west wing of the hub, on level H, this 582 m² lounge has a capacity of more than 145 seats. The SkyTeam lounge - whose architectural design has been...

It's time to breathe a sigh of relief: the authorities in charge of London Heathrow airport are finally going to implement a plan that will provide a direct rail link across the whole of Great Britain to Europe's leading air hub. The inertia that has prevailed until now in the development of new rail lines can be explained by the...

This will soon be a reality. A few days ago, Transavia France announced that it would be basing two Boeing 737s in Montpellier next spring. A judicious choice, since Montpellier is the last major French city not to be a base for a low-cost airline, while the airport is being...

For a long time, Luxembourg Findel airport remained dormant, content with its traffic of businessmen from the financial world and European institutions, while at weekends, charter flights took mainly German holidaymakers to the sun. Between 1997 and 2010, passenger traffic fluctuated between 1.2 and 1.6 million. And yet...

Condor has set itself the target of driving German tourists to the beaches of the Var region and escorting business travellers from Toulon to Germany's financial capital on their return, with the launch of a new Toulon-Frankfurt flight on 20 May. This new route will operate until 23 October 2020 with three flights a week, every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Milan-Linate is once again ready to welcome passengers for the IATA winter season. The Milan hub, generally favoured by business travellers as it is only 20 minutes from the centre of the Lombardy metropolis, had closed its doors for three months due to the refurbishment of the runway and the modernisation of the...

Lufthansa is clearly paying particular attention to the French regions. Already present on the Nantes-Munich, Bordeaux-Frankfurt and Marseille-Zurich routes, the German group is pursuing this decentralised approach with the forthcoming opening of a flight between Rennes and Frankfurt. "We are convinced that there is a major dynamic in the French regions, where we offer two thirds of our services.

The corridors of the FFB (Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg) airport authority, which manages Berlin's airports, were probably full of smiles at the beginning of October. The Airport Supervisory Board has just approved the allocation of airlines to the future BER complex. The airport will in fact comprise three terminals: Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3 and Terminal...

Asian airports, long benchmarks for service and capacity, are increasingly suffering from congestion. In Bangkok and Jakarta, the authorities are busy developing new terminals or expanding existing ones, while in Ho Chi Minh City work continues on the brand new airport. But it is Manila that should...

An arrivals hall is to be built on the site of the former cargo terminal at La Réunion Roland Garros airport. Built perpendicular to the current terminal, which will be used solely for departures, the hall will increase the airport's capacity from 2.3 to 3.2 million passengers. Work is due to start in 2020...

A few weeks after Iberia announced a partnership with the Spanish start-up Bag on Board, Manchester airport is now focusing on a practical service for travellers: home baggage collection. The Mancunian platform has just unveiled a partnership with Airportr, enabling it to offer a baggage check-in service...

The Circle, the new zone dedicated to business tourism at Zurich airport, is due to open its doors in September 2020: a sort of small town covering an area of 180,000 m², with restaurants, brand-name shops, art galleries and even an outpatient centre at Zurich University Hospital....

According to the airport association ACI, total passenger growth in Europe amounted to 2.2% in July, marking the smallest increase in traffic since the start of the year. In June, traffic was still up by 4.7%. Freight traffic, an even more revealing indicator of economic activity, once again fell...