airports

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...

Eurostar or no Eurostar, the air market between France and the UK continues to perform rather well. With 11.03 million passengers between the two countries, the France/UK route is the 7th largest air market and 6th if domestic traffic is excluded. In Europe, France ranks 5th, behind...

"The TGV was a drag on our growth for over a decade. But we're back on a growth tangent": Pascal Bigot, Director of Route Development at Montpellier airport, is decidedly optimistic. And he's right to be, because the airport's traffic lights are all flashing green. Last year,...

"We could never have imagined that we would have had to build an extension to Terminal 2, our hub, in just a decade. When we opened Terminal 2 in 2003, we carried eight million passengers. With our Star Alliance partners, we carried 27 million last year",...

Time is no object: travel professionals, who by definition have more experience of airports than the average traveller, are nevertheless prone to stress during their business trips. Booking.com, which is gaining ground in the business travel community, has devoted a study to these stress factors...

"Paris loves you": two months to the day after Valentine's Day, the managers of Paris airports are sending an unequivocal declaration of love to travellers from all over the world. This new slogan is accompanied by a new identity for the general public, as Paris Aéroport replaces Aéroports de Paris, while the "ADP Group"...

Who are Yotel's customers? Jo Berrington - They are mainly entrepreneurs, SME executives and people from the digital world who don't want to pay for unused space. Our airport hotels in Amsterdam Schiphol and London Heathrow and Gatwick have 250% occupancy! We sell the...

In March, Moxy opened a hotel near Munich airport. Located five minutes from the Bavarian hub, the hotel offers 252 very contemporary rooms and nine meeting rooms, in addition to the basics of Marriott's young, lifestyle brand: a large, bright and colourful lobby, 24-hour food and beverage service, a...

How are services from Brussels Airport to Zaventem now organised? While train traffic to the airport from the city has still not resumed - only taxis and private cars are allowed, as well as chartered coaches - the airlines are getting organised to cope with the gradual resumption of traffic...

Could the UK be Air France KLM's fourth largest market worldwide after France, the Netherlands and the United States? In any case, it is on the other side of the Channel that we should look to see the strongest growth in the French airline's medium-haul network, with an offer in...

The study recently unveiled by Liligo was carried out in 28 European Union countries, plus Russia and Switzerland. The travel search engine has drawn up various rankings, analysing country by country the free wi-fi offers available to travellers at airports. Among other things, it shows that...

In a few days' time, on 15 March to be exact, business travellers in Normandy will be able to take advantage of a new direct scheduled service between Caen-Carpiquet and Bordeaux, via a new Chalair flight lasting less than 1 hour 20 minutes. Two weeks later, it will be Antwerp's turn to join the list of business destinations linked by the airline to the airport...

In Paris (+3%) as in the provincial airports (+3.3%), the growth of French airports led to a record year last year: 181 million passengers were welcomed in 2015, according to the annual results of the Union des Aéroports Français. However, the industry association is calling for this performance to be "put into perspective", given the figures...