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Bad news for travellers and good news for airline finance directors. The difficulties inherent in purchasing aircraft spare parts (engines, for example) and delays in delivering aircraft mean that air fares are unlikely to fall significantly in Europe. With a very...

Whether you like Ryanair or not, the Irish ultra-low-cost carrier is Europe's leading airline: 197.1 million passengers carried in 2024, 94 bases in 37 European countries, 237 destinations and 610 aircraft. Its success is reflected in the load factor of its aircraft: 92% in the third quarter of its financial year...

Business hotels in Europe's major cities saw moderate growth in both prices and occupancy in 2024. These are the findings of the business hotel barometer, designed by research firm MKG in partnership with hotel reservation specialist CDS Groupe. For 2023, the same barometer showed...

No sooner had the Lufthansa Group's acquisition of a stake in ITA Airways been confirmed than the management teams of Lufthansa and ITA revealed the timetable for the next few weeks leading up to the integration of the Italian carrier. The first immediate measure is the equivalence granted to the frequent flyer programmes: the 36 million Miles & More members...

As 2024 draws to a close, the Vienna Tourist Board is particularly satisfied with the past year. The Austrian capital broke all visitor records, with 8.2 million arrivals and 18.9 million overnight stays. This represents an increase of 11% and 9% respectively. Undeniable proof of Vienna's appeal: last year, the airport...

LOT Polish Airlines is to return to Paris Orly, an airport it has served in the past. More precisely 35 years ago, since the carrier's last flights were to Warsaw in April 1990... The Polish national carrier will be landing daily from 31 March...

The Baltic States are clearly harbouring great ambitions to carve out a place for themselves on the international mobility scene. Riga airport is expecting a new terminal and a business district, RIX Airport City, by 2028. And the inauguration of the new Riga-Vilnius train line was celebrated a year ago. And as the year begins...

It is one of the last two gateways to Russia that is partly closed from Europe. And this will make access a little more difficult for travellers who need to get to Russia. Alongside Turkish Airines, Air Serbia remains one of the few airlines in Europe to offer flights to Russia.

With the launch of Air France holidays at the beginning of January, the national airline is hoping to win back some of the travellers who book via online travel agencies. Will it be able to attract this clientele with this offer? Launched in a test phase from the summer of 2024, Air France holidays is presented as a complete holiday offer, enriched with...

After three years of renovation work, Finlandia Hall celebrated its reopening on 4 January in Helsinki city centre. The building, designed by architect Alvar Aalto and inaugurated in the early 1970s, has undergone a complete makeover. The aim of the renovation plan is to double visitor numbers, which until now have hovered around...

"Que c'est triste Venise", sang Charles Aznavour. If the singer saw it as a sign of romance, his song is more topical than ever. It's the fault of over-tourism, which the authorities are now trying to curb... and which is denaturing many destinations. In the wake of Covid, the 'wanderlust' has revived tourism in a more...

Flightright is one of Europe's leading providers of compensation for passengers affected by flight disruptions. In the event of flight delays, cancellations or denied boarding, Flightright relies on the application of European Union regulation 261/2004 to enable passengers to obtain compensation and/or reimbursement from airlines. Flightright has already obtained more than...

It's going to be a busy summer for Transavia. The Air France subsidiary is preparing to add several routes - ten to be precise - from the main French airports to its catalogue. Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes and Lyon are all involved in this major offensive, which will begin on 30 March with the launch of the Orly-Amsterdam flight. The KLM hub will be...

For Javier Roig, Finnair's outgoing Director for France and Southern Europe, Finnair has demonstrated an uncommon vitality and resilience. "We've been through a number of crises over the past decade. Covid, of course, but above all the worst was the closure of Russian airspace to European airlines with the war over the...

This was the first time Sofia had hosted an international air transport conference. The brainchild of German aviation consultant DA! GmbH, Aviation-Event SOF 2024 highlighted the ambitions of the Bulgarian capital in the European air transport sector. European media were able to find out what the future holds for the Bulgarian capital's airport. And...

On 7 November, Volotea inaugurated two new flights from Brest Bretagne Airport to two business destinations: London and Strasbourg. The British capital will now be linked to Brest twice a week, every Thursday and Sunday. The schedule will change in April, with flights operated on Mondays and Thursdays.

The news is presented - as usual - as progress for the passenger. At a press conference organised by Ryanair in Dublin last week, the airline's CEO, Michael O'Leary, explained that he wanted to make online check-in compulsory. The Dublinlive.ie website reports that the Ryanair boss was quoted as saying:...

The life of a business traveller is not a smooth one. In any case, it is not immune to a few frustrations and other worries. The latest study published at the beginning of October by AirPlus bears witness to this. The specialist in travel expense solutions questioned 543 business travellers in nine European countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden,...

Where does Turkish Airlines stand today? Ömer Faruk Sönmez - It may not be sufficiently well known, but Turkish Airlines is the airline that today offers the most destinations in the world. We offer 349 destinations in 130 countries with our fleet of over 460 aircraft. We cover 90% of the...

Two major dates have shaped contemporary Slovakia: 1993 and the birth of a new independent nation, definitively separated from the Czech Republic, and 2004, just 20 years ago, the year the country officially joined the European Union. These two events turned the page on a post-war period that had lasted 40 years...