Europe

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...

This is often a headache for business travellers who are premium members of an airline frequent flyer programme. All it takes is for the airline to change alliance for the benefits within that alliance to disappear. This time, Star Alliance has decided to anticipate the disappearance of premium members of SAS Scandinavian's frequent flyer programme...

Relations between Aegean and Volotea have just been strengthened. The two carriers had already signed an agreement to market flights between Athens and Thessaloniki to some fifteen European destinations (including Paris-CDG and Nice). Now, the partnership is also financial. On 3 September, Aegean announced an investment of €25 million...

Something is not quite right for European airlines flying to China. The wake-up call came at the beginning of August with the announcement by British Airways that its London Heathrow-Beijing route would be suspended on 26 October. The airline had resumed this route in June 2023 with four frequencies per week....

It was a very popular product in the 80s and 90s in the United States: an air pass, which, depending on the package chosen, allowed you to buy 5 to 12 plane tickets in advance, valid for a given period but regardless of the destination. The idea has now been taken up by ultra-low-cost carrier Wizz Air. The Hungarian airline,...

ACI Europe, the trade association for European airports, has published its air traffic report for June and the first half of 2024. It shows that the continent's airports have finally shaken off the trauma of Covid. Passenger traffic at European airports rose by +9% in the first half of the year.

On 2 July 2024, the Association of European Airports (ACI Europe) published its report on the connectivity of the airport industry in Europe. The report, unveiled at ACI Europe's 34th Annual Conference and General Meeting, uses connectivity indices created by SEO Amsterdam Economics and offers the most comprehensive tool for assessing and...

And the desire increases as the effect draws closer. With less than a month to go before the opening of the Olympic Games and the cohort of visitors expected for the occasion, Parisian hotels continue to fill up. According to the CDS and MKG reservations observatory, on a panel of nearly 250 hotels studied, the number of reservations...

Finnair has completed the transformation of its product both on the ground and in the air. The airline has completed the installation of its new travel classes on its entire fleet of long-haul aircraft. The €200 million investment has enabled its aircraft to be equipped with a new Business Class seat, a new Premium Economy cabin,...

A single train ticket for a rail journey across the whole of Europe. This will be possible from the end of the year with the official launch of OSDM, the Open Sales and Distribution Model, a unified online ticket sales system for 22 railway companies. By the end of 2024, six railway companies - SNCF, CFF, Deutsche Bahn, ÖBB,...

163 new air routes inaugurated by low-cost airlines for this new IATA summer season in Europe: demand for travel is strong and low-cost air transport, which is more flexible than traditional airlines, is responding. According to a study by the consultant Air Service One, some fifteen low-cost airlines have opened new routes this summer.

SAS Scandinavian Airlines this week announced a change in its commercial strategy following the arrival of new shareholders. In future, the shareholding will be made up of the Danish State and Air France-KLM in association with investors Castlelake and Lind Invest. By joining Air France-KLM, SAS is naturally leaving Star Alliance to join SkyTeam. The...

The Aviation-Event 2024 CLJ conference was held in the middle of the Cluj Napoca airport expansion site in Romania. The conference brought together a large number of airport managers, particularly from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, as well as airlines and air transport specialists. Cluj Napoca airport is a perfect example of the sector's growth...

The landing of the Tribe brand at Milan Malpensa airport, the debut of Mercure in Albania, in Tirana, the Ibis brand which continues to spread its establishments in France, the United Kingdom and Romania: the Accor group continues to develop its portfolio of premium, mid-range and economy brands across Europe. All the more so since...

Paris and London in the lead: the traditional powerhouses of the European hotel industry have regained their full appeal to travellers, whether they are tourists passing through or business travellers on the move. In these two cities, as in many others across France and Europe, the combination of these two customer groups is driving up the...

More than a demonstration of resilience, a real performance. At its annual conference, In Extenso Tourisme, Culture et Hôtellerie drew up a positive assessment of 2023 for the French hotel industry. With occupancy continuing to grow (+3%) and average prices still on the rise (+7%) - the latter essentially linked to the increase in the...

This February - but also in April and May 2024 - Finnair is collecting data on the average weight of customers and their hand luggage. The operation will only take place on flights departing from Helsinki airport. This anonymous data is then used to optimise the balance of the aircraft. Customer volunteers and their baggage...