airports

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...

Traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol airport rose last year by 18% compared with 2022. But there is still a long way to go to get back to the figures achieved prior to the health crisis, especially in a highly sensitive political context. For several months now, the KLM hub has been torn between its quest...

London Gatwick is going electric with the inauguration of an Electric Forecourt station under the Gridserve banner. Electric vehicles will now have access to 30 large and low-power chargers, powered entirely by net zero emission energy. In addition to these contactless payment terminals, the site on the southern bypass of the southern terminal...

Bad weather has taken its toll on Brest airport. The control tower at the airport, the second largest in Brittany with over 900,000 passengers expected by 2023, was struck by lightning on 30 December during storm Geraldine. Since Sunday, air traffic has been...

As 2023 draws to a close, Flightright is taking stock of the disruption experienced by business and leisure travellers when travelling in Europe. And the findings are clear for the passenger compensation specialist: "2023 has been a particularly complicated period for European travellers, marked by...

We'll have to make do. Passengers whose flights were due to leave or land in Paris between 7pm and midnight on 26 July 2024 will have to review their flight plans. Either by postponing their journey, arriving earlier or landing elsewhere. In fact, the DGAC, the French civil aviation authority, has...

A direct metro link to Paris-CDG from your office at La Défense is a promise that should be of interest to more than one business traveller... On 22 November, Valérie Pécresse's announcement made it even more concrete. On Wednesday, the Chairwoman of the Île-de-France Region and Île-de-France Mobilités unveiled the project for the...

It's the eternal controversy over the rise in air fares and those responsible for it. For IATA, the international air transport association, the picture is somewhat Manichean. The good guys are the airlines, which are limiting their fare increases to well below inflation. The bad guys are the airports, which are indulging in shameless fee increases. IATA:...

The French model, which now bans short-haul flights where there is a viable alternative of less than 2? hours by train, is finding new emulators. Spain also wants to ban short-haul flights on domestic routes. Here too, on condition that there is a train alternative of less than 2.5...