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In November 2022, Paris-Beauvais airport welcomed the low-cost carrier easyJet with fanfare and trumpets, with the launch of flights to Lisbon. A trial balloon transformed in 2023 with the launch of flights to Milan Malpensa and Nice. In the end, the orange airline threw in the towel at the airport north of Paris. In the...

As we head back to school in 2024, the airlines are introducing a whole host of new services. And destinations in South-East Asia do not have the monopoly on major announcements - even if the return of direct flights from Paris to Manila or Kuala Lumpur is likely to be of interest to business travellers... who should be particularly interested...

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...

Regional carrier Volotea continues to expand its French network with new routes departing from 8 cities, including Paris. The French capital will once again benefit from two daily flights between Orly and Rodez. These flights start on 2 September. The largest number of new routes, however, are to Brest...

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,...

The easyJet offer at Bordeaux airport reached 33 destinations this summer with the addition of Athens to the carrier's catalogue. The carrier is now preparing for the winter season. It has just announced two new flights. A Bordeaux-Rabat flight is scheduled for 29 October. It will operate twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. As for...

Volotea is continuing its offensive in French airspace with the imminent arrival of a new flight from Montpellier. On Wednesday, the low-cost carrier announced the launch of a flight from Montpellier to Rennes. Expected to start in November, this new route will operate twice weekly. Flights are scheduled every Monday and Thursday, with the exception of...

It's a revolution at Southwest Airlines. For some 50 years, passengers boarding the low-cost airline's aircraft have sat wherever they wished. Or wherever there was still room. The first passengers to board were in fact the best served, with the others filling up as they went along...

Transavia, the Air France-KLM Group's low-cost airline, is offering even more ways to earn and spend Miles on flights within Europe and to the Mediterranean. Transavia France is now offering its Flying Blue member customers the opportunity to earn Miles on all fares - Basic, Plus and Max -,...

Faced with growing demand for TGV travel, which SNCF is struggling to meet, the rail company has decided to beef up its low-cost Ouigo product. By 2030, it should account for 30% of its high-speed offer, compared with 20% today. "To achieve this, we are going to increase the number of Ouigo TGV trains...

EasyJet is once again creating a buzz by announcing 60 new routes this winter. Half of which will link the UK to the rest of Europe and North Africa. Among the countless new routes is the launch of five new routes to French-speaking Europe. Starting with Basel-Mulhouse, which will benefit from 7 November from...

This is not the first time that Ryanair has closed a base in Europe. The process is always the same: after promising an airport a great deal in return for financial incentives, the Irish airline is always quick to close one of its bases as soon as the airport mentions a tax increase. Bordeaux is no exception...

This is a financial sleight of hand by Capital A, the holding company that owns AirAsia, but it will have an impact on the business of all the airlines. And in turn on its customers. Capital A has just approved the transfer of all its airline activities to a new entity: AirAsia Group Sdn Bhd ("AirAsia...

Passengers due to take Vueling flights in France in the next few weeks are likely to face problems due to a strike. The union representing the Spanish low-cost airline's French flight attendants has called a strike from 8 to 12 May. The reason for the strike is...

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Ouigo is giving its 38 low-cost TGVs a facelift. Already ultra-capacious, with capacity for 1,268 passengers - the equivalent of 6 B737-800 aircraft - they will soon be even more so. The interior refurbishment, scheduled to take place between 2025 and 2027, will make it possible to add a few more seats by doing away with the bench seats and...

Dubai was already linked to Marseille by Transavia. From winter onwards, this will also be the case for Toulouse. The airline will be offering two flights a week (Tuesday and Saturday) from Toulouse to the Emirate from 29 October. Dakar will be adding Lille and Nice to its French network. Transavia will offer two weekly frequencies...

Wizz Air had a rather good year in 2023. Passenger traffic for the Hungarian-born airline reached more than 60 million passengers in the fiscal year. And this trend is set to continue, with average aircraft load factors expected to reach 90% for the current year. Wizz Air has made a speciality...

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.

Vueling's network continues to shrink from one season to the next. The programme of the Spanish low-cost carrier, a subsidiary of IAG, is losing almost a dozen routes for the summer of 2024, down to 32 destinations served from the Orly base. The carrier is now well behind Transavia (more than...

When you're an airport, there's always a risk in linking up with Ryanair. The Irish carrier is certainly an undeniable factor in the growth and development of passenger traffic. Many regional airports are courting the low-cost carrier with subsidies. The latest to do so is Trieste airport in Italy,...