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While Madrid remains Spain's most important hub, with all the intercontinental routes operated by the national carrier Iberia, Barcelona has gradually closed the gap with the Castilian airport. Barcelona is now flirting with 40 million passengers a year, while Madrid recorded almost 47 million passengers in 2015. This represents a...

It's become a regular occurrence: Atlanta's unrivalled position as the world's busiest airport has once again been confirmed, according to the 2015 rankings published by Airports Council International (ACI). Delta's hub has even consolidated its leadership, with passenger numbers up sharply (+5.51TP3Q) on the previous year....

Business travellers may regularly ply the corridors of airports, but they are no less exposed to the various hassles that accompany air travel. Quite the contrary, in fact. From access to the terminal to arrival at your destination, there are a number of anxiety-inducing stages, which a study published by Liligo attempts to decipher. The travel search engine...

Air traffic is depressed at Nice, France's second busiest airport after Paris, with just over 12 million passengers a year. This summer, the Côte d'Azur hub is linked to 107 destinations in 37 countries by 62 airlines. Between January and July Nice recorded growth of 4.7%, with more than 7.2 million...

Have the Cassandras cried out louder than the rest? Following the vote on 23 June confirming the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, many analysts were predicting a drop in air traffic to the country due to the expected economic uncertainties and a wave of panic among investors. ForwardKeys, an independent...

Jakarta Soekarno Hatta received almost 54 million passengers in 2015, in terminals designed to handle only 27 million passengers: a hellish situation for more than a decade, which the local authorities only really got to grips with three or four years ago. Opened in the early 1980s, the airport has...

The vast investment plan (US$3 billion) undertaken by American Airlines to improve the passenger experience continues to bear fruit for business travellers. The airline has just unveiled the new look of the Arrivals lounge, which now welcomes travellers to Terminal 3 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.

Supporters of the case for a third runway at London Heathrow, Europe's biggest airport in terms of passenger numbers and also one of the most congested on the continent, may have found some unwitting support with Brexit. What do the British people's recent decision to turn their backs on the European Union and the planned expansion of Heathrow have in common?

On Tuesday 19 July, Toronto airport management, in partnership with the Canadian security services and the US border protection and security service, launched Project Advance, which will speed up immigration formalities with pre-screening to the United States. Toronto is one of the main gateways to the...

Until now, Switzerland has been one of the few countries at the heart of the European continent not to belong to the European Union. On the other hand, the Helvetic Confederation is aware of its dependence on the EU, as the country shares common borders with four EU countries, not to mention economic exchanges with the EU. In 2014, 55%...

The attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport in June, followed by the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July, could seriously undermine the position of Turkish Airlines and its airport as a major European hub. The army's unsuccessful attempt to seize power led to the closure of a number of...

Business travellers, who are in the majority on the France-Luxembourg route, will soon have a new flight option for their business trips. easyJet has just announced the opening of a new flight from Lyon to Luxembourg airport. Three flights a week will be operated all year round from 1 November, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The...

Atatürk airport, some fifteen kilometres from Istanbul city centre, was hit by a triple suicide bombing on 28 June (9pm Paris time, 10pm local time). At least 41 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the departures hall of the international terminal. The Istanbul hub nevertheless resumed operations as soon as...

On 17 June, Lyon became Air Canada's third French destination, after Paris and Nice. The airline now connects Montreal-Trudeau and Lyon Saint-Exupéry airports with five flights a week during the summer season - every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - and plans to reduce its schedule...

The airport is often perceived as a stress zone, due to time constraints or security checks. A study published last April by Booking.com ranked the fear of missing a flight as the main anxiety experienced by travellers (36%) during their journeys. A new study, this time carried out by Priority Pass, puts the...

Air France is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Paris-New York route by inaugurating a new flight to JFK this Monday 6 June, departing from Orly airport. Departure from Paris airport is at 11.20am, arriving at New York-JFK at 1.25pm. On the return journey, passengers will leave JFK at 6.25pm, and fly to Paris...

Aeroflot has been offering a new route between Moscow and Lyon since June. Four flights a week are operated by the Russian airline between Sheremetyevo and Saint Exupéry airports, with departures scheduled every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The route is operated by an Airbus A320 configured in two classes:...

Air traffic between France and Germany remains a major route in the European Union, with 3.51 million passengers carried in 2015. From Germany, the number of passengers boarded at the 25 main commercial airports reached 108.2 million in 2015, an increase of 3.7% compared with 2014. German statistics actually separate...

In just over a month's time, on 14 June to be exact, Nantes will have never seemed so close to Brussels. That's when Brussels Airlines will begin operations to Loire Atlantique airport, with twelve flights a week. The Belgian airline will therefore be offering two daily flights, with the exception of weekends. Travellers...

Copenhagen, London-Gatwick, Prague, Santander, Venice, Vienna and, from September, Naples - Vueling is making no secret of its ambitions from Paris. These six new destinations have been launched successively over the last few days from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. "Our level of commitment in France has been confirmed with our...