Europe

Le Bourget airport rounded off its centenary year in style, taking first place in the ranking of Europe's busiest airports for business aviation. With a total of 51,186 private jet movements, the Paris region airport was well ahead of Geneva (35,484) and Nice-Côte d'Azur (31,474) in the Top 20 published...

Air fares on low-cost carriers are on the rise, according to a survey by the Deutsche Zentrum for Luftverkehr und Raumfahrt-DLR (German Centre for Air Transport and Aerospace) published in December. According to prices calculated in autumn 2014, average fares for a trip on a low-cost airline fluctuated between €70 and €140....

It cost almost 44.5 million euros - 50 million dollars - to transform one of the icons of the Paris hotel industry. This week, the Hilton Paris Opéra officially unveiled the new face of a building inaugurated more than 120 years ago, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition. "We are delighted to...

Just a few months after joining American Express Business Travel (GBT), Guillaume Col had his baptism of fire under the EVP banner on Thursday. The new Managing Director and Vice President for France, Belgium and the Netherlands was able to call on the support of a number of key players, including...

The inauguration of the Ring Rail Line will be a milestone in the history of Helsinki airport. This new link between the Finnish gateway and the capital will be inaugurated this summer, as Ville Haapasaari has just confirmed. The director of Helsinki Airport is already talking about the most significant improvement for over 15 years... Since the new...

The monthly Tendanciel report, which replaces the monthly Civil Aviation Observatory, was published on 26 December by the DGAC. It shows a slight increase in air traffic (+2.1%) for November, "generally one of the lowest months for air transport", as the report points out. On a year-to-date basis...

The SNPNC and UNAC cabin crew will kick off strike action at 00:01 on 25 December, with the real impact expected from 26 December. EasyJet points out that "as the company will not be operating any flights on 25 December, no passengers will be affected by this strike...

By winning new slots at Orly, easyJet is playing a new card for its business customers. The airline is preparing to offer daily connections between two major business hubs, with the launch of the Orly-Hamburg route on 29 March 2015. "This new route will enhance the network from Orly...

New recognition and new resources: that's what the €2 million recently raised from business angels represents, and it should help SnapCar to develop in the chauffeur-driven car market. A number of big names in the business travel industry have signed up as business angels for SnapCar.

Of course, Rothko's abstraction is best remembered for its fields of colour... Combinations of fir green and blood red or ultramarine blue, navy blue and vibrant yellow, dirty greys and whites, deep blacks... a whole festival of bright or powdery colours obtained by superimposing several colours...

Rome is devoting a major retrospective to Hans Memling, a major artist of the second half of the 15th century who became the most important painter in Bruges after the death of his Brussels master, Rogier van der Weyden. At the time, the city of Flanders was a major cultural and financial centre, and commissions were pouring in...

Opened on 23 November, the Appart'City Strasbourg Aéroport will offer 100 flats in Entzheim, south-west of Strasbourg. Business travellers will be able to reach Strasbourg city centre in 15 minutes from the new hotel. [gallery exclude="38923"]

According to American Express Meetings & Events, the market equation for 2015 is "Do more with less". The events branch of the business travel agency has published its "Global Meetings Forecast 2015" study, which anticipates a further fall in budgets in Europe (0.4%), while pointing out that the decline was more marked...

Based on the principle that "it's not always easy to find the balance between not standing in line for ages and just missing your plane", Kayak took out the stopwatch and scrutinised Europe's biggest airports. The result: with an average walking time of 3 minutes between...

Did you expect such a large turnout for the European Business Travel Convention? Mike McCormick - You can't take anything for granted in this business... We were quite optimistic about the success of this event, but it required a huge amount of work on the part of the teams to achieve this...

The renovation project presented by Nice Côte d'Azur Airport management on 14 November will be carried out in two stages. The first stage, which began in January 2015, will involve Terminal 1, followed by the transformation of Terminal 2. The first is due to be completed in May 2016, the second twelve months...

Can we already consider this European Convention a success? Hans-Ingo Biehl - Yes, we think so. It's a great platform for people to meet. Our partnership with the GBTA has enabled us to set up this meeting point for the various players in the market. We are...

In addition to the flights to Amsterdam from Nice and Toulouse - already made official last October - easyJet unveiled on Friday an upgraded 2015 schedule from French airports. Bordeaux-Glasgow, Lyon-Crakow and Marseille-Manchester are just some of the new routes the airline will be serving next year. These new developments will bring to...

"The cheapest airport transfers on the market": this is the ambitious promise made by the new SnapCar Classic range, which boasts a Paris-Orly journey for 29 euros, and more generally fares 25% lower than other available offers. "Previously more popular with corporate executives and senior managers, SnapCar...

The TER and Intercités networks in the provinces are likely to be the most directly affected by the strike, due to start at 7pm on Monday. In its Sunday forecast, the SNCF expects traffic to be almost normal, stressing that "alternative modes of transport are planned on routes where there are still some risks...