airports

The year 2017 marked the return in force of British Airways to French skies. After a remarkable comeback at Nantes airport after a nine-year absence, the airline landed in Montpellier on 3 May. Business travellers in the Languedoc region had not seen a BA aircraft land for ten...

Since Tuesday 2 May, Helsinki airport has entered a new era: Finnair is trialling a new facial recognition service until 23 May. This full-scale test is being carried out in partnership with Finavia, the Finnish airport management body, and Futurice, the supplier of the technology being tested. Facial recognition...

Of course, passengers departing from or arriving at Paris CDG will have to wait until 2019 to walk through the door of the Innside by Melia, but the project began to take shape with the laying of the foundation stone on Thursday 20 April. An important day for the Spanish group Melia...

Jet Airways is clarifying its European ambitions: the Indian airline has just confirmed that it will be flying to Chennai from Paris on 29 October. Tickets have been on sale since 20 April, and we already know that Air France and Delta Air Lines will be codeshare partners on these routes. Five flights will be operated each week...

The decision was taken at the end of last week. Emirates, the largest carrier in the Gulf, is to reduce its capacity to the United States significantly. Five routes will be affected by capacity reductions. In an announcement published last Wednesday, the airline said it was reducing the number of flights from the month of...

The growth of Toronto Pearson International Airport should be bolstered by both a dynamic open skies strategy and a policy of welcoming foreigners to Canada. As the country's leading hub, with 44.3 million passengers a year, Toronto Pearson International is now envisaging itself as a 'mega hub', the equivalent of Dubai for...

From this Tuesday 11 April, the new "Terminal 1 Hall B" welcomes its first passengers. The low-cost carriers - in this case easyJet, Transavia, Air Arabia and Pegasus - are getting their first taste of this new space, the opening of which marks the start of a vast development plan that will last several months. In fact, the major works are not expected to be completed before...

A few weeks ago, OAG, a company that analyses all global air transport data, presented its annual rankings of airlines and airports in terms of punctuality. The comparison is based on some 54 million flights over the whole of 2016. For the airports, OAG used as criteria the hubs whose...

The 2017 version of the Aéroports de Lyon mobile application has just been unveiled. Available on iPhone and Android, it allows travellers to scan their boarding pass via their smartphone to display real-time flight status information. The new mobile tool also uses the traveller's geolocation to show him or her where his or her...

Riding the wave of collaboration, a new mobile tool aims to create links between business travellers. The Ayruu application now lets you see where you are on the plane using the "Seat Map" function, so you can identify your neighbours and get in touch with them based on potential affinities. The Messenger section also allows you to...

"Welcoming customers the French way": this is Air France's ambition at the inauguration of the airline's new lounge in Terminal 2G at Paris CDG airport. This made in France welcome, whose key words will be "high quality, attention and pleasure", aims to combine "comfort, chic and creativity", according to the airline's...

With the opening of Pentahotels Paris CDG in June, is your brand aiming to give the airport hotel industry a facelift? Alastair Thomann - Next to airports, travellers often find products that are old and boring. The operators, because these establishments are doing very well and what's more, demand is constantly increasing...

Transavia officially announced on Tuesday 13 February that it will be closing its Munich base from next winter. Munich was the first European base outside France and the Netherlands - its two home markets - for the low-cost airline, which announced in 2015 that it wanted to conquer Europe like Easyjet...

With 223.2 million passengers, German air transport is the third largest generator of traffic, after Great Britain (more than 260 million passengers) and Spain (230 million). This puts Germany ahead of Italy (160 million passengers) and France (154.5 million passengers). However, the growth in air traffic in Germany has not...

Among the new routes unveiled by easyJet on 9 February, several business routes are likely to attract the attention of business travellers. The opening of the Marseille-Geneva route, in particular, and the route linking Lille to Nantes could well appeal to this corporate clientele who are increasingly frequenting the airline's network. The first route will start on 28...

Amsterdam Schiphol aims to be a Leading Digital Airport by 2018. To this end, after testing new security scanners, a multilingual robot to guide passengers through connecting flights and, more recently, a control system that allows passengers to leave computers and liquids in their hand luggage,...

Along with Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific is one of the models of successful Asian aviation. The Hong Kong-based airline has been an integral part of the aviation history of the British colony and then the financial metropolis. The carrier is one of the oldest in Asia, having celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016. The two carriers are models of management:...

Who could have imagined a few years ago that a low-cost carrier would add a helicopter transfer service to its range of services? Yet this is the latest news from easyJet on the French market. It is the official announcement of an agreement with Monacair for the...

What strategy is Aer Lingus deploying to conquer the business travel market? Farida Chikhaoui - Aer Lingus offers daily flights to Dublin and Cork from Paris CDG, as well as flights from Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Rennes, Toulouse and Perpignan. From Dublin, our passengers can fly to ten destinations in America...

Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, travelled to Paris last week to inaugurate a brand new business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport. The inauguration was attended by Frank Goldanel, Director of Aéroports de Paris, and Abdullah Al Subaey, Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority...