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The pier is brand new, painted in bright colours and interspersed with patios that bring a touch of greenery and coolness to a city, Toulouse in this case, where summers are often very hot. It was an essential investment, in fact a necessary one, as our low-cost traffic is booming," explains Philippe Crebassa, Chairman of...

EasyJet continues to make inroads with business travellers. The adaptation of its product to a clientele demanding flexibility, reliability and simplicity is reflected in the remarkable growth of its premium passengers. Between 2012 and 2018, the number of passengers travelling for business reasons rose from 10 million to more than 15 million, with the...

A strike by Transavia cabin crew will affect the low-cost airline's traffic until Sunday. However, disruption is expected to be limited, with management planning to operate 95% of its schedule on Friday. Nevertheless, this strike action is a wake-up call for the group...

The big manoeuvres have clearly begun within the new management of the Air France KLM group. Nearly a year after the appointment of Benjamin Smith as the group's new CEO, the reorganisation is beginning to deliver its first tangible results. In the space of 24 hours, the acquisition of 60 new Airbus aircraft...

At a time when 'the shame of flying' is becoming a fashionable phenomenon, and when some people are advocating banning certain domestic flights, easyJet has just launched its first Franco-French service from Montpellier. Since 29 July, the airline has been offering four flights a week to and from Paris-CDG, operating every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday....

Nantes airport continues to grow in popularity, particularly for Transavia, which is opening more and more routes. Almost ten years after the inauguration of its Nantes base, the carrier will soon be serving 29 destinations in 14 countries. Next autumn, Transavia will be inaugurating two new routes, to business destinations in...

Norwegian has just announced that it will be suspending two new transatlantic routes, Las Vegas-London Gatwick and Orlando-Stockholm Arlanda. The company has already announced that it has no intention of reinstating these routes in the near future. At the same time, ten routes will be transformed into seasonal routes operating only during the summer. These include several business routes such as Boston-Paris...

This is a real strategic defeat for the Lufthansa airline group, a defeat that its CEO, Carsten Spohr, now candidly concedes. Eurowings is losing money, a lot of money, and this is weighing heavily on the parent company's accounts. In the first quarter of 2019, the Lufthansa group lost some 342 million euros, while last year Eurowings lost...

Eurowings is launching its revised Smart fare for short and medium-haul flights. Smart is the airline's intermediate fare between its Basic and Bizclass fares. Eurowings is thus responding to the needs of passengers using this class of travel who did not seem to find the services provided commensurate with the fare paid....

Just 20 years ago, we could never have imagined that Europe's skies would be so competitive, a commercial war that has resulted in a plethora of services on offer. On the Paris-Rome route, for example, business travellers can choose between no fewer than five airlines: traditional carriers such as Air France and Alitalia, of course...

It should be one of the major achievements of the Bouteflika era, inaugurated by the President himself. The new terminal at Algiers Houari Boumediene airport was due to open its doors to the public on 26 February. Then, on the 24th, while in the midst of preparations for the event, employees of the Société de Gestion...

Wow Air's financial situation - like that of other long-haul low-cost carriers - had not augured well for several weeks. On 28 March, the final blow fell: the Icelandic airline is ceasing operations. The airline's website now displays a message entitled "Travel Alert", simply stating: "End of...

Founded in 2013, Hong Kong Express is well known to Asian passengers. The company operates a network of 25 destinations, in particular to Japan (11 cities), Thailand (4) and Korea (3). Hong Kong Express also serves Taichung in Taiwan, the Mariana Islands and Ningbo in China, Danang and Nha Trang in Vietnam, as well as...

easyJet's summer schedule is taking shape, with a host of sunny destinations. However, among the seven routes unveiled by the airline on Monday, there are a few new features likely to be of interest to business travellers. For the first time in easyJet's history, a domestic flight will be launched at Montpellier airport, with four weekly connections...

Laudamotion has confirmed that Ryanair has finalised its acquisition of 100% of the company's capital, becoming a de facto subsidiary of Ryanair Holdings. This event allows the Irish carrier to announce its plans for the future of the Vienna-based low-cost carrier. Laudamotion will increase its fleet from 19 to 25...

Germania stopped flying on the night of 4 to 5 February, forced into bankruptcy due to financial difficulties, including rising fuel prices, the fall of the euro against the dollar and an unusually high number of maintenance operations. Founded in 1986, the airline...

We thought they were poles apart. In fact, we are discovering that they can coexist, even to the point of envisaging close cooperation. Low-cost airlines have not only revolutionised air transport on point-to-point routes. They are now entering the long-haul arena with their own flights, and through partnership agreements...

At a time when some are threatening the widespread collapse of the long-haul low-cost model, Norwegian is taking the opposite view. The airline has just clarified its roadmap in terms of in-flight connectivity. The arrival of the first wi-fi equipped Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner last December kick-started a global drive. Norwegian promises...

During 2018, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recorded more than 4.3 billion air passengers. Compared with the previous year, this represents a 6.1 % increase in traffic. In terms of the number of flights, the United Nations agency recorded almost 38 million. In 2018, it was the Asia-Pacific market that...

Business travellers looking for low-cost accommodation near Paris-CDG airport will soon be able to take advantage of an easyHotel, under an agreement signed with the ADP group. Expected to open in 2020 just a stone's throw from the Aéroville shopping complex, this low-cost establishment will offer 209 rooms and a model similar to low-cost aviation...