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Emirates continues to add new frequencies to its global network, with seat capacity up 31% year-on-year. With the introduction of its summer programme, the airline is boosting capacity, particularly in Asia and Australia. Europe and Africa are also benefiting from improved frequencies. Emirates "against the tide": 2...

Saudi Arabia is now clearly demonstrating its ambition to be the emerging and dominant destination in the Gulf over the next few years. Major tourism infrastructure projects have been announced one after the other, and now it's the turn of air transport. Last October, the government announced that it was working on the launch of a new national airline. It is already starting to take off.

Qatar Airways is returning to the ambitious annual growth targets it set every year before the Covid crisis. Fiscal year 2023-2024 will see the opening of seven new destinations around the world. France is one of the markets best served by the rise of Qatar Airways. It will...

Etihad Airways has just announced that it has been forced to suspend all online check-in for its flights. This suspension covers a period of nine days, from 4 to 12 March. The only exception: online check-in for passengers starting their journey from the Abu Dhabi hub will still be possible on 4 and 5 March....

To better serve Premium customers on Qatar Airways' three daily flights and on oneworld flights departing from Terminal 1, Qatar Airways has just reopened its spectacular first and business lounge. The return of this lounge is linked to the recent reopening of Terminal 1, after several years of works. Until now,...

Introduced on 1 August 2022 on the Paris-Dubai route, the 56-seat Premium Economy class on A380s has already had its day. It is no longer offered on the route to the Gulf emirate. This is due to the repositioning by Dubai Airlines of the A380s that used to fly between Paris CDG and Dubai...

It seems that the Airbus A380 has an above-average capacity for resilience... Regularly described as an endangered species, promised to be scrapped, the super-jumbo is now used to comebacks. Etihad recently announced the return to service of four A380s next summer. And now it's Emirates' turn...

We thought it had already been buried in the meanders of aviation history. But now the Airbus A380 is back in service all over the world. The latest airline to announce the return of the giant of the skies is Etihad Airways. Four of the airline's super-jumbos will be returning to service from...

Saudi Arabia's Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman has just announced the master plan for King Salman International Airport, Saudi Arabia's future air hub. The plan will strengthen Riyadh's position as a global logistics centre, boosting transport, trade and tourism, and should serve as a bridge between the East and the West...

Qatar Airways has just announced an increase in its flights to around ten destinations, the vast majority of which are in the Asia-Pacific region. This is good news for business travellers, as there is still a significant shortage of frequencies, particularly to Asia. For example, to Asia, OAG notes that, for the week of November 1, capacity was...

Emirates is continuing to launch its new Premium Economy class on more air routes. This offer is due to the fact that Dubai's national airline will have 85 of its A380s back in service by December. The temporary immobilisation of the fleet of very large aircraft during the covid pandemic has been put to good use...

British Airways and Qatar Airways have just completed their ambitious global partnership. A partnership that allows the two carriers to pool the vast majority of their network. And to offer connections on what both describe as "the world's greatest connectivity between countries". The two carriers now offer...

While the Qatar Airways Premium Lounge in Terminal 4 has just reopened to Qatar Airways 1st and Business Class passengers, the carrier has just inaugurated a second lounge. It is reserved for Privilege Club frequent flyers and those of the airline's partners in one world. The lounge offers...

Two billion dollars. This is the investment made official by Emirates on Friday as part of a new move upmarket. One of the most obvious embodiments of this investment will be the new Premium class. This was officially launched in Paris - but also in London Heathrow and Sydney - on August 1. "We...

Qatar Airways is one of the few airlines to have permanently offered flights to Australia, even during the harsh confinement of the country. Qatar even launched a new route to Brisbane in early 2020. The carrier carried more than 330,000 passengers between March 2020 and December 2021. Qatar Airways returns to...

The Premium Economy Class was launched at the beginning of the year on the Emirates network. But with too few aircraft, access to this new intermediate offer remained too occasional. So the official launch had to wait. It will finally begin on 1 June. And French business travellers will be among the first to benefit...

The range of services between Nice and the Middle East continues to expand. Following on from Emirates, Etihad and Gulf Air, Kuwait Airways will be flying to Nice from 15 June. The carrier will serve Nice twice a week every Wednesday and Sunday. [link-block prefix="Also to be read:" post="122119"] Nice is one of a series of...

This spring, 25 of these kiosks made their appearance in terminal 3 of the Dubai hub. These 25 Emirates-branded mobile check-in kiosks are designed to replace the fixed kiosks and reduce waiting times for business and leisure travellers. The kiosks will eventually be deployed in all check-in halls...

Nice airport will therefore - quite logically - be joining the club of summer destinations served by Etihad. On Monday, the airline announced the launch of this seasonal flight between Nice and Abu Dhabi on 15 June. Etihad will operate two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. The flights will be operated in...

Gulf Air is continuing to expand its intercontinental network in Europe, positioning itself as a "niche carrier". The national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain will be inaugurating four new destinations. These are Manchester, Milan, Nice and Rome. Only Milan will benefit from five weekly flights from 1 June onwards from...