airports

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...

Finishing off a bottle of water in a hurry, removing a laptop and a transparent toiletry bag and carefully arranging them in separate bins: this is the daily routine for business travellers faced with more or less chaotic airport checks. But if recent reports are anything to go by, the scene should soon be disappearing from British territory...

On the face of it, this is a clear-cut ranking, marked by the unchallenged domination of Milan and London: that of the most expensive business destinations to reach the city centre by taxi from the airport. According to a study published by AirMundo, Milan and London airports monopolise the European top 5, with, in order: Milan Bergamo (105...

From 20 August, shops, catering areas and airline lounges at San Francisco International Airport will have to stop selling water in plastic bottles, the first step in a major initiative by the US airport to reduce single-use plastics as much as possible. The initiative is part of a commitment...

Designed to relieve congestion at the existing Beijing Capital airport, the new Daxing international airport is due to open its doors at the end of September and welcome its first flights in October. Carrying the IATA code PKX, the new airport will above all be the hub for the China Eastern and China Southern airlines. China Eastern has announced the transfer of its...

In line with the IATA recommendations set out in its Resolution 753, Air France has decided to go down the road of RFID chips, with a view to improving baggage management, which is often a problem for business travellers. The airline announced on 29 July that it intends to use this new format to tag baggage...

According to flight statistics from OAG, one of the world leaders in the analysis of flight frequencies and airline networks, flight punctuality in Europe continues to deteriorate rapidly. Increasingly congested airports and worsening weather conditions due to the effects of climate change are to blame.

Lille airport, which began its transformation at the end of 2018, is going to have to close its doors. The renovation of the main runway leaves those in charge of the Lille hub with no other option: "during an incompressible 39-hour phase, we are forced to suspend flight activities on our hub,...

What if a face could be both boarding pass and passport? That's the promise of facial recognition applied to air travel. This biometric device simply consists of matching the photo of an identity document with the face of the passenger captured as they pass through. Average operation time: six seconds....