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With 9.5 million passengers expected by 2023, Milan Linate is one of the first major airports in Europe to become 100% biometric for passenger identity checks. In cooperation with French aeronautical equipment supplier Thales and Swiss security firm Dormakaba, Milan's airport management company SEA has just launched the first biometric...

ACI Europe, the organisation of European airports, has just published its air traffic report for March and the first quarter of 2024. With the upturn in traffic trends, the association has revised its passenger traffic forecast for 2024 as a whole. Passenger traffic for European airports has...

Updated on 25 April at 10am. Will the strike that was due to paralyse French skies on Thursday 25 April be as extensive as announced? The SNCTA (Syndicat National des Contrôleurs du Trafic Aérien - National Union of Air Traffic Controllers) had in fact called for a 24-hour strike, in protest at a new version of a protocol deemed "unacceptable"...

A year, or even the equivalent of two years' rainfall in less than a day: the torrential rains that hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman yesterday have caused massive flooding in many Gulf countries. In Dubai, while schools will remain closed until the end of the week,...

For almost ten years now, Nannybag has been giving its users peace of mind when travelling anywhere in the world, thanks to its collaborative luggage storage service provided by partner retailers. Now the start-up is offering a new option, this time for air passengers. It has joined forces with Safe Bag, a leading...

Toulouse-Blagnac recorded more than 7.8 million passengers in 2023, an increase of 11%. However, this figure is still almost 19% lower than 2019, which recorded 9.6 million passengers. Bruno Balerdi explains why... Toulouse airport is experiencing a slower recovery than other French airports. What are the...

Dossier written by Florian Guillemin and Arnaud Deltenre 1 April traditionally provides an opportunity to stimulate everyone's creativity when it comes to fake news. But sometimes reality is more than fiction. On Saint Hugh's Day, it's tempting to look back at these often zany, sometimes dramatic, but all very real misfires.

Less than 1%! This is the proportion of passengers at Orly and Roissy airports who waited more than 45 minutes to pass through border police controls. A good result just revealed by the Direction de la Police aux Frontières in cooperation with the ADP Group. The...

The traffic figures for French airports in 2023 have been coming out one after the other since the beginning of February. Often through triumphant press releases, based on an upturn in traffic that continued last year. This is confirmed by the Union des Aéroports Français (UAF) in its annual report. Last year, the...

Airports Council International (ACI) and Amadeus have announced their verdict, ranking the world's best airports by region and by traffic category. Rome-Fiumicino and Barcelona-El Prat stand out among the 'big carriers' on the Old Continent (more than 40 million passengers a year). As for the hubs...

Last July, OK Mobility made its debut in France with the opening of its first branch at Nice airport. Since then, the rental company has also set up in Lyon, and is now tackling a third business destination: Bordeaux. A new OK Store has just opened at the airport, in the presence of local managers....

This summer, easyJet will be linking Nice airport to 46 destinations, including four unveiled this week by the airline. Following in the footsteps of Bordeaux, Nice airport will benefit from a brand new service to Athens. The Greek capital will be served from Nice from 28 May, with two flights a week. These flights will...

Bordeaux airport is looking to the future. In October, work will begin on the Bordeaux hub as part of a five-year project. "Our new-found investment capacity will enable us to upgrade our infrastructure to the highest European standards, while continuing on our path towards becoming a world leader in air transport.

Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse will soon have another airport with intercontinental connections from France and Switzerland. Despite the economic potential of its catchment area (Alsace, Baden-Württemberg and the Basel region), Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse has not offered any intercontinental services for over two decades. The airport handles more than 8 million passengers a year...

Another warning strike by the Verdi union in Germany. This time it will affect Lufthansa ground staff at five German airports - and not the least. The hubs affected include Frankfurt and Munich, as well as Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. For Verdi, the proposals put forward by Lufthansa's...

Last June, the ADP group inaugurated the Paris-Orly environmental alliance, bringing together 33 signatories under the banner of more sustainable aviation. This time, it's at Le Bourget that the operator is setting itself apart, again with an eco-responsible approach. This ambition led ADP to team up with a major player: Dassault Aviation, and its subsidiary...

The respite in German transport was short-lived. No sooner had the strike at Deutsche Bahn ended on Monday evening than other branches began to strike. The VERDI union has announced a strike at German airports on 1 February. The strike will affect virtually every airport in the country. In...

As with the vast majority of airports in Europe, Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse, the largest in the Grand-East region and also Switzerland's third-largest airport, continued to return to traffic levels more in line with its importance. Last year, the airport recorded passenger traffic of "only" 11%, below its record...

France's major airports continued to show signs of recovery in 2023, according to the first figures published by the various hub managers in France. However, some airports continued to post lower performances than in 2019. This is the case at Paris-CDG, Lyon and Toulouse. But others, such as Beauvais, Marseille, Nice and...

Comparison is not reason for Europe's main airports, which are still looking nostalgically at the 2019 statistics. On the road to recovery, these international hubs are making progress, and prefer to look to the figures for 2022 for a more flattering benchmark. With 79 million and 59.4 million passengers respectively...