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Autonomous vehicles are not just for Uber and other American giants. The investments made in this field by All Nippon Airways (ANA) over the last few months bear witness to this. After an initial phase of tests in February 2018, the Japanese airline has begun experimenting with an autonomous bus on its...

The day of 14 January brought a new dimension to the American "shutdown", the result of the tug-of-war between President Trump and the Democrat-majority House of Representatives over funding for the famous "wall" at the border with Mexico. There is still a total impasse over this funding, leading to the closure of federal government departments, including...

These figures can make you dizzy: growth in excess of 51 %, 93,000 additional passengers, to be put into perspective in relation to overall traffic for the year, i.e. 274,011 passengers: Caen-Carpiquet airport has just completed a high-flying year in 2018. According to the figures released on 14 January, Hop...

Until 8pm this Tuesday 15 January, a strike by security staff at Frankfurt airport will block the German hub. "Passengers departing from Frankfurt will not be able to pass through the legally required security checks and get to their flights. We therefore strongly advise all passengers arriving from Frankfurt...

The new United Polaris lounge will open on 12 January in Los Angeles, in terminal 7, between gates 73 and 75A. This is the fifth Polaris lounge in the United network, after Chicago, Newark, Houston and San Francisco. At LAX, the lounge covers more than 1,100 m², guaranteeing no less than...

Munich airport is planning to improve its welcome for business travellers by offering them new meeting areas known as MeetingCabs: soundproofed cabins measuring 8 m², equipped with adapted furniture, electrical sockets and Internet connections, and capable of accommodating up to four people. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="130429"] MeetingCabs are available for a minimum period of...

On 2 June, Brussels Airlines will be leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport, which the airline has been serving for some fifteen years now. However, the Lufthansa Group carrier is not deserting the Russian capital. Quite the contrary: it intends to bring business travellers closer to their final destination by transferring its operations to Sheremetyevo International Airport,...

Following on from Lyon-Saint Exupéry, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport has now posted record results. Last year, the airport welcomed 13.85 million passengers, representing traffic growth of 4.1 %. This is the eighth consecutive year that the Côte d'Azur hub has improved its performance. However, the Nice hub scheduled fewer flights...

With a record 11 million passengers handled in 2018, Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport has recorded spectacular growth of 25% in three years. Last year, the Lyon hub broke the symbolic 10 million passenger mark for the first time. [caption id="attachment_81911" align="aligncenter" width="670"] Another record year...

Istanbul's new airport, "Istanbul New Airport", will finally open its doors on March 3, with all the airlines transferring flights from the existing Ataturk airport, as the airport authority recently announced to the Turkish press. This is the third time that the grand infrastructure has seen its opening to traffic postponed. So...

Star Alliance business travellers should have access to a new lounge in terminal 1 at Guangzhou airport from 2019. This is one of the main conclusions to be drawn from the agreement officialized at the end of December between the managers of the airline alliance and those of the Chinese airport. In the long term, this strengthened cooperation should also...

The new terminal project is taking shape at London City airport, which is particularly well suited to business customers because of its strategic location close to the city centre and the City. Officials at the London hub have just unveiled the first computer-generated images of the various areas - check-in, security, baggage, lounges -...

The announced arrivals of Hainan Airlines on the Paris-Chongqing and Paris-Shenzhen routes and Xiamen Airlines on the Paris-Fuzhou route confirm the key role played by the French capital for traffic to China. There are many reasons why Chinese airlines are interested in Paris. The first of these - which has nothing to do...

Flightright has just unveiled its aviation review for 2018. The passenger rights specialist has ranked airports and airlines according to their punctuality and the number of flights cancelled between January and November. Among the 100 airlines with the most flights from France, Eastern Airways,...

On 17 December, Air France launched a new service designed to simplify the journey for business travellers wishing to use public transport to get to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. A baggage check-in counter has been set up at Paris-Nord station, next to track 3, opposite the SNCF shop. Open to...

Since 15 December, business travellers have been able to travel directly to Nice airport on line 2 of the tramway from Magnan station in the city centre. On 14 December, the city inaugurated part of the West-East tramway line, linking Grand Arénas to Nice-Côte d'Azur airport. In particular, it serves...

Business travellers looking for low-cost accommodation near Paris-CDG airport will soon be able to take advantage of an easyHotel, under an agreement signed with the ADP group. Expected to open in 2020 just a stone's throw from the Aéroville shopping complex, this low-cost establishment will offer 209 rooms and a model similar to low-cost aviation...

JAKARTA High standards for Jakarta's Terminal 3 For years, Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport, one of the largest hubs in South-East Asia with 65 million passengers, had to route all its traffic through two terminals, with a combined capacity of 25 million passengers. This will continue until the opening of...

After announcing the installation of its seventh French base at Nantes airport, easyJet is now setting out its ambitions. The airline has just announced the forthcoming opening of eight new routes from Nantes. From 31 March, there will be three flights a week to Rome Fiumicino and two flights a week to Nantes.

Since 4 December, business travellers from the Air Canada network and Star Alliance partners have had access to a new dedicated area at LaGuardia airport in New York. The Canadian airline is the first to inaugurate an airport lounge in the new Terminal B. This "Maple Leaf" lounge, with its...