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Etihad put on a show on 1 May at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, unveiling its new business class. It will be fitted on Boeing 787 Dreamliners, three of which will join the fleet in the third quarter of 2023, marking the arrival of this new Business class. It is in fact a...

The year 2022 marked an improvement in business for Airbus and Boeing. The two aircraft manufacturers have just published figures showing an increase in deliveries and orders for last year. These figures show that the recovery in global air transport is real. Airbus did better than its American counterpart. The European aircraft manufacturer...

Air India has often made the headlines in recent years. Unfortunately, in most cases, for negative reasons. A difficult period that the company would like to consign to history since its acquisition by the powerful Tata conglomerate. Tata's acquisition put an end to 69 years of...

Faced with longer flight times than the vast majority of airlines, Air New Zealand logically pays particular attention to the rest of its passengers. "New Zealand's geographical location puts us in a unique position to be at the forefront of the very long-haul travel experience", says...

Neither Paris nor Frankfurt in continental Europe. Australian carrier Qantas has finally chosen Rome as its sole destination in the European Union. A city that will be added to its existing service from London Heathrow. Rome was chosen because of the strong demand from the Australian diaspora for flights to and from Australia. And also because...

In these unprecedented times, when compromise - hybrids - are becoming the norm, the temptation of the intermediate class is making itself felt among certain airlines. After KLM, which announced at the end of 2020 the arrival of a new premium economy for 2022, Swiss has just unveiled its new product. This fourth class, which is already open to bookings,...

On 25 June 2021, Qatar Airways introduced its latest aircraft, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner between Doha and Milan. This route offers the latest version of the carrier's business class, the Business Class Suite. Out of a total of 311 seats, Qatar Airways is offering 30 Business Class Suites on the B787-9s. The aircraft will connect Doha...

The two news items on the future of supersonic travel could not be more contradictory. On 24 May this year, the American aircraft manufacturer Aerion ceased operations. The company had been working for several years on the development of a new supersonic jet. With 12 seats and flying at Mach 1.4 (1,610 km/h), it was intended to create...

United Airlines grounded 24 of its Boeing 777s on Sunday after an engine on one of its aircraft caught fire in flight. The engine sent debris flying over a suburb north of Denver at the weekend. The disaster, which caused no casualties, involved a...

The consecutive crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people. The cause was faulty computer navigation programmes. This led to the suspension and total flight ban on the latest model from the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Nearly two years will have passed since...

As part of its Etihad Greenliner initiative, the Emirati airline formed a strategic partnership with Boeing at the end of 2019. It is now continuing tests with the aircraft manufacturer to accelerate the technological development of a safer and more eco-responsible commercial aircraft. The ecoDemonstrator programme will use a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner as a test bed...

The information leaked through the House of Representatives in the US Congress. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released documents showing that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted in its first report, following the two 2018 accidents, that the...

What if tomorrow's aircraft were not as we know it today, i.e. with a tubular fuselage, wings stretched like birds' and jet engines fuelled by paraffin? Admittedly, that's a long way off, as most of the projects are still in the engineers' computers. But we're almost there. Last June, KLM and...

Lufthansa currently relies on a heterogeneous fleet, particularly on its long-haul routes, which fluctuate between Boeing 747s and Airbus A350s, or even MD-11s for its freight flights. The company is therefore planning to rationalise the entire fleet of wide-body aircraft used by the group's airlines. The aim is to reduce the number of different types of long-haul aircraft...

Boeing announced last week that it could suspend production of the 737 MAX if it cannot convince regulators that it has resolved all the problems affecting its model. Boeing has already announced that it faces additional costs of more than eight billion dollars linked to two accidents that killed 346 people....

Almost ten years after introducing the horizontal seat-bed to the Japanese market, All Nippon Airways is unveiling its latest product innovations for business customers. On 11 July, the Japanese airline presented its two new front classes, designed with the architect Kengo Kuma. The business class, dubbed "The Room", aims to establish itself as...

Norwegian has just announced that it will be suspending two new transatlantic routes, Las Vegas-London Gatwick and Orlando-Stockholm Arlanda. The company has already announced that it has no intention of reinstating these routes in the near future. At the same time, ten routes will be transformed into seasonal routes operating only during the summer. These include several business routes such as Boston-Paris...

Since Tuesday, French business travellers have been able to board the most modern aircraft in the United Airlines fleet. The Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner took to the skies on the Paris CDG - New York (Newark) route, underlining the strategic importance of Paris airport for the airline, which now serves six transatlantic destinations via the Paris-Charles de Gaulle...

Boeing for one, Airbus for the other: there's movement in air transport in the French Pacific with the delivery of new aircraft for the two carriers, Air Tahiti Nui and Aircalin. Air Tahiti Nui is in fact the first to put into service the first of its four Boeing 787-900s, which...

The Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed a few minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing 157 people. A Boeing 737 MAX 8, the latest model in the famous 737 family. This accident is reminiscent of another, that of Lion Air, which last autumn also saw a brand new B737 MAX 8...