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At the end of last week, Emirates confirmed its return to the French regions for its winter timetable, which begins on 25 October. From December 2, it will be offering four weekly frequencies by Boeing 777-300ER to Lyon instead of the daily flight it operated last year. To Nice, Emirates will be relaunching its...

Transavia, Air France's low-cost subsidiary, will be starting its first domestic routes from Orly and Nantes this autumn. On 2 November, Air France's low-cost subsidiary Transavia will take over the Paris Orly-Biarritz route, offering up to three daily frequencies. It will also be taking over four routes from Nantes-Atlantique, offering thirty weekly frequencies....

Toulouse is home to a new convention centre, MEETT, with 95,000 m² of modular space suitable for events of all sizes. Since September 3, the MEETT exhibition and convention centre has welcomed its first visitors and exhibitors for the Motorhome Show and the Vivre Nature Show, in Toulouse.

The total transport package amounts to just over 11 billion euros and will help to speed up France's ecological transition. Prime Minister Jean Castex has specified that this package will help to renovate the railways, build new railway bridges, bring back night trains and...

The United Kingdom's sudden decision to re-introduce compulsory quarantine for travellers to several European Union countries within a matter of hours has further dampened hopes of a return to normal traffic flows. The decision was justified by the upsurge in cases of coronavirus in certain parts of these countries. The UK's Department for...

It was an election with the flavour of a plebiscite. With a turnout of 82.63% and 90.37% in favour, the SNPL, the majority union of Air France pilots, finally validated on 12 August the plan to reorganise the domestic network proposed by the management of the Air France-KLM group, after months of negotiations....

Ecological awareness and the Covid-19 crisis have had at least one positive effect on Europe's railways: the return of night trains. A fine revenge for a mode of transport that seemed doomed 20 years ago. The SNCF in France, the FS in Italy...

Over the past month, France has seen a steady rise in the number of cases of covid-19 on its territory. A situation that has the authorities worried. As early as July, an upsurge in contamination due to the arrival of tourists led to the compulsory wearing of masks in the open air in seaside resorts such as Argeles, Biscarosse, Cancale, Honfleur,...

"The shock to our industry is unprecedented and unprecedentedly violent". Sébastien Bazin, CEO of Accor, can't help but notice the impact of the pandemic on tourism in general, and on his hotel group in particular. Indeed, for the first half of the year, revenue per room (RevPAR) fell by...

COVID-19 weighed heavily on the Air France-KLM group's results in the first half of 2020. The number of passengers carried collapsed (-62% in the first half of 2020) while capacity fell by 53% for the group (including -89% in the second quarter alone). [link-block prefix="See also:" post="90597"] The losses are therefore...

Air France is gaining momentum at Orly by resuming services to Nice as well as Biarritz and Montpellier. On the latter two routes, however, it will have to rely on the return of EasyJet. This August, EasyJet is launching a regular service between Paris airport and Biarritz and Montpellier. The decision...

The date for the reopening of the Hôtel Barrière Le Westminster in Le Touquet is now known. This jewel in the crown of the Hauts-de-France seaside resort will reopen its doors on 25 September following a major renovation programme which began in December last year. Although the work was initially scheduled to last six months, it has taken a little longer in...

In the same way as Japan Airlines (JAL), which relaunched its Paris service on 1 July, All Nippon Airways (ANA) will be resuming its Paris-Tokyo route. From 1 August, the Japanese carrier will initially offer two weekly flights on Wednesdays and Saturdays. While the timetables will be the same as before...

How did Adagio cope with the period of confinement? Karim Malak - Just over 70% of our aparthotels closed during this period. On a positive note, this also means that 30 % of our residences continued to operate. In towns where we have several establishments, we were unable to...

The Air France group's restructuring plan today confirms the closure of some of its domestic routes, in order to meet the target of reducing capacity on the French domestic network by 40% by the end of 2021. This was one of the conditions laid down by the French government for financial support totalling seven billion euros, of which...

26 June will mark the reopening of Orly airport, which has been closed since the end of March. Terminal 3 will welcome 130 daily flights instead of the 650 flights on the platform as a whole. Services will be provided to Corsica, a dozen Schengen countries including Portugal and Greece, as well as the French overseas territories, i.e. the...

SNCF and Spanish rail operator Renfe have announced the reintroduction of high-speed services between France and Spain on 1 July. From that date onwards, two trains a day will run in each direction from Paris and Marseille to Figueras, Girona and Barcelona, with other French cities...

Will the new phase of decontamination announced on Sunday by the French President speed up the recovery of your hotels? Franck Gervais - Today, half of our hotels in France are open. And we're reopening at a significant rate, with 70% of our hotels worldwide expected to have opened by the end of the year.

Three weeks after decontamination, do you already feel that business is picking up? Olivier Cohn - It's still rather tentative, but a momentum is building. The recovery is gathering pace week by week. Admittedly, we are still a long way from the booking levels recorded in 2019, since we are only 45% away from what we were doing last year...

It's time for Lyon airport to start operating again, with the gradual reopening of flights to business and leisure destinations. Since 8 June, Air France has resumed domestic flights to Nantes, Bordeaux and Toulouse, in addition to the KLM flight to the Amsterdam hub. The Air France group...