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Kevin Speed is promising a revolution in high-speed rail travel with its project for low-cost TGV trains that should be running on the Paris-Lille, Paris-Strasbourg and Paris-Lyon routes by 2028. Through its commercial offer, called Illisto, the rail start-up intends to offer a kind of high-speed RER with 16 journeys per hour.

This summer, easyJet will be linking Nice airport to 46 destinations, including four unveiled this week by the airline. Following in the footsteps of Bordeaux, Nice airport will benefit from a brand new service to Athens. The Greek capital will be served from Nice from 28 May, with two flights a week. These flights will...

The Air France group's low-cost subsidiary, Transavia, will be stepping up its services from the French regions to the Mediterranean basin and North Africa for the summer holidays. The additional flights will be offered from Montpellier, Nantes and Nice airports. Transavia France will operate two weekly frequencies on all the new routes to...

"This is a massive expansion of our operations on transcontinental and international routes. This is part of our objective to conquer routes with few flights or that are simply too expensive". These were the words of Josh Flyr, Frontier Airlines' vice-president of network and operations, on 23 January at the presentation...

2024 could see the creation of a mega-airline on the Asian continent, a player that would be the equivalent of a few American or Chinese behemoths. This is what the CEO of Capital A Bhd, Tony Fernandes, revealed earlier this week. Capital A Bhd is the holding company that brings together - in a nutshell - all the airlines...

The second largest carrier at Toulouse airport in terms of market share, easyJet is continuing to expand its presence. This is demonstrated by the announcement on 20 December of three new routes operated exclusively by the airline from the Blagnac hub. Alongside the inauguration of a flight to Zadar in Croatia, easyJet is targeting two leading business hubs...

Volotea has just announced the opening of its 20th base in Europe and its 9th in France, in Brest. This base will be operational from April 2024. The airline will base an Airbus A320 aircraft there, with a programme of around twenty destinations, including 13 new routes. Among the new routes, Volotea has already announced new services to Athens,...

26 cities and destinations. This is the service offered by the Spanish regional airline Volotea from Strasbourg airport, which has established itself as the "national airline" of the Alsace metropolis. The Eurometropolis, once the stronghold of Air France, is now closely associated with the regional carrier. This will finally give it the European coverage it so coveted. Because...

From 2 June 2024, Norwegian will offer scheduled flights between Basel-Mulhouse Airport and Oslo, as well as to Copenhagen. Initially, both routes will be served twice a week. Oslo will be served twice, every Thursday and Sunday. Frequencies to Copenhagen will be every Monday and Sunday.

At the end of October, Eurowings, Lufthansa's simplified services subsidiary, introduced a new service for customers with a myEurowings account. Called "Flex Light", it offers a one-off, no-fee change of flight reservation up to 40 minutes before departure. Since 26 October 2023, this option has been automatically integrated into the...

This Tuesday 31 October, easyJet is inaugurating three new routes from Paris CDG. A daily flight will now be operated to Birmingham. The service to Rabat, with four flights a week, should also position itself in the business travel segment. As for the Paris-Agadir flight, it will be operated twice a week, every Tuesday...

EasyJet has become the first airline in the world to sign a contract with Airbus for its carbon reduction initiative. Available as part of Airbus' Carbon Capture offering, the technology uses Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) to provide airlines with carbon-neutral air...

Norse Atlantic is weaving its transatlantic web. On Monday, the airline launched two new transatlantic flights from Miami. The low-cost carrier now links Florida to London, with four flights a week. An additional flight will be added during the peak winter season. At the same time, Norse Atlantic has also inaugurated...

From 1 May 2024, the low-cost carrier Norse Atlantic will operate on the Paris CDG-Los Angeles route. Flights will operate from Monday to Sunday, with the exception of Tuesday. This flight will give passengers the greatest possible flexibility on this new route. The flight will leave Paris-CDG at 4.15pm and arrive in Los...

The six routes unveiled this week by easyJet bring to 17 the catalogue of new additions to the airline's winter programme. Some of the new routes will be of interest to business customers. Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Nantes: easyJet's new routes Grenoble airport will be linked once a week to London Southend airport, where...

In an interview with the weekly magazine L'Obs, French Transport Minister Clément Beaune talks about plans to impose a minimum fare on airlines within the European Union. The aim is to "combat social and environmental dumping". And to encourage rail travel, which is considered to be more environmentally friendly. A €10 flight? Unknown...

Its aircraft, emblazoned with an emblem reminiscent of traditional gingham fabrics, are increasingly present in France, particularly on cross-border routes, but also more and more at Orly. But also more and more at Orly. 11 years after its arrival in France, the Catalan airline Volotea has turned in a remarkable performance. It is the number one airline in France in terms of...

79 out of 112 routes where the plane is cheaper than the train. This is the surprising finding of a Greenpeace study that compared air and rail in Europe. And this at a time when the European Union and national authorities are constantly hammering home the need to favour rail over air. But in...

The summers come and go, but the problems remain the same in Europe's skies. Many airports continue to operate on a just-in-time basis due to congested airspace. What's more, repeated strikes by air traffic controllers in several countries are adding to the difficulties. For example, easyJet has just announced that it has cut 1,700 jobs...

Transavia is about to take a new step in its international development. The Air France subsidiary has just made official its forthcoming arrival in Dubai. And it is business travellers from the South-East who will benefit from this new destination. Transavia plans to fly to Dubai from Lyon from 29 October. Two days later...