Algeria

Volotea is clearly counting on connections between France and Algeria. And what better place than the capital to assert this ambition, especially from a leading airport for the business, leisure and affinity markets? The inauguration of a flight from Marseille to Algiers is the logical next step in the company's expansion...

It's certainly not easy to get a foothold in Algeria, whatever your business or nationality. That's what the directors of the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad, must think. As early as November 2024, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier had announced the launch of four weekly flights to the Algerian capital. The carrier had...

Since 21 October, Air Algérie has been offering a new route to N'Djamena in Chad, with a stopover in Douala. The carrier offers two frequencies per week. The Chadian authorities have granted the carrier "fifth freedom rights". This allows it to carry passengers from N'Djamena...

As we head back to school in 2024, the airlines are introducing a whole host of new services. And destinations in South-East Asia do not have the monopoly on major announcements - even if the return of direct flights from Paris to Manila or Kuala Lumpur is likely to be of interest to business travellers... who should be particularly interested...

The improvement in diplomatic relations is having a positive effect on air travel: the national airline Air Algérie has just announced the resumption of its flights to Madrid following the re-establishment of relations between Algeria and Spain. Algeria had decided to suspend its relations following the Spanish Prime Minister's support for the autonomy plan of the autonomous region of...

Air Algérie is continuing to expand, with the airline aiming to serve more than 60 destinations over the next few years. The carrier has recently strengthened its presence on the African continent. At the end of September, Air Algérie inaugurated two weekly flights to Johannesburg. Last March, the carrier had already returned to Libreville in Gabon. The carrier...

This will be the longest route in Air Algérie's network in Africa. On 21 September, the Algerian national carrier will inaugurate its first non-stop service to South Africa. The carrier will be offering two weekly flights, every Thursday and Saturday, to Johannesburg. The two-class flights will...

Strasbourg is a little closer to Algeria during the summer period. Until the end of August, Air France's low-cost subsidiary Transavia will be offering three weekly flights from the Alsatian capital to Algeria. On 4 July, the carrier inaugurated two flights a week to Algiers. The flights take place on Tuesdays and...

Over the last few days, several airlines have revealed their increased ambitions for the France-Algeria route. Transavia is the latest to step up its offer in this strategic market - for business, leisure and affinity customers - and will soon be offering more than 50 flights a week. From Paris...

The Algerian national carrier Air Algérie will finally be renewing its fleet of aircraft. This renewal had been suspended indefinitely by the government in 2020 with the health crisis. This is therefore a first for the airline since the pandemic. The previous fleet renewal took place in 2016, when Air Algérie...

From 8 April, the tarmac at Paris-CDG airport will see more of the shimmering livery of low-cost carrier Volotea. The Spanish airline, based in Barcelona, will be launching up to four flights a week linking the French capital with Verona in Italy. Verona is an important base for Volotea, which serves some twenty destinations, including...

ASL Airlines is resuming services to Algeria. These services were suspended during the covid-19 crisis. ASL Airlines France has just announced that the Algerian authorities have approved the resumption of the airline's scheduled flights between France and Algeria. The carrier resumed its service between Paris Charles de Gaulle and...

Algeria has just announced that it will be reopening its borders to international travellers from 1 June. However, according to the authorities, this will be a gradual reopening. The borders had been hermetically sealed since March 2020 because of the Covid pandemic. Only a few repatriation flights were able to operate during this period. According to the text...

There's a whiff of the 1970s about air services between France and Algeria. A time when Air France shared with its counterpart Air Algérie the monopoly of air links between the two countries. Today, the situation is virtually the same as it was 50 years ago. Following the redistribution...

At the beginning of December, Regus opened its third Algerian address in Sétif, nestling on the 16th floor of the Park Mall, a 10-minute walk from the station and a 20-minute drive from the international airport. This 671 m² business centre comprises 41 private offices, 120 workstations, a coworking space...

It was certain that Aigle Azur's France-Algeria network would whet the appetites of the competition. Now it's done: at the beginning of the week, Transavia CEO Nathalie Stubler confirmed on various radio stations that the airline was interested in taking over a dozen routes operated by Aigle Azur. The low-cost carrier operates...

With the suspension of Aigle Azur flights, one particularly important route for the French market has suddenly been deprived of a third of its seat capacity: the route between France and Algeria. According to the DGAC's annual statistics, traffic between the two countries accounted for 4,555,767 passengers in 2018, a figure...

It should be one of the major achievements of the Bouteflika era, inaugurated by the President himself. The new terminal at Algiers Houari Boumediene airport was due to open its doors to the public on 26 February. Then, on the 24th, while in the midst of preparations for the event, employees of the Société de Gestion...

Africa is a continent of possibilities for the business tourism industry. In the same way as the hotel and air transport industries, coworking and, more broadly, shared workspaces are booming. As the sector leader with 3,300 sites around the world, Regus is logically taking part in this boom, and...

With a subsoil rich in oil and, above all, gas, and growing economic resources, the 2000s got off to a good start for Algeria and its 40 million inhabitants. Until 2015, hydrocarbons ensured the country's growing prosperity and stability, enabling it to pay off its foreign debt and build up solid financial reserves....