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Vueling has confirmed its growth at its Orly base this summer. The low-cost airline, a subsidiary of the IAG group, has significantly increased its presence with the recovery of Air France slots at the airport. It is now the second largest international carrier from the Paris hub. It follows Transavia (75 destinations) and remains far...

The Air France group is pursuing its strategy of expanding Transavia. On Tuesday, the airline announced that it had inherited three new business routes. Starting on 27 March, two domestic routes will be operated from Orly airport. Transavia will then connect Pau and Perpignan. The first destination will be...

Two aircraft based, 35 destinations this winter and for the summer 2022 season. Ryanair has become a major player in air transport in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The investment for this new base, opened in November, amounted to 200 million dollars. The carrier has added 17 new destinations to its existing network...

Volotea is preparing for the arrival of summer with the announcement of new flights from Nantes airport. While the destinations unveiled on 22 December are mainly aimed at leisure customers, business travellers in Nantes will be able to take advantage of a new route to a European capital. The low-cost airline is planning to fly to Rome. There will be two flights per...

From 8 April, the tarmac at Paris-CDG airport will see more of the shimmering livery of low-cost carrier Volotea. The Spanish airline, based in Barcelona, will be launching up to four flights a week linking the French capital with Verona in Italy. Verona is an important base for Volotea, which serves some twenty destinations, including...

London-Gatwick, the British capital's second airport with over 46 million passengers in 2019, has always been associated with the national carrier British Airways. Even though since the 2000s the British carrier has gradually lost ground to its low-cost rival easyJet, it has remained a structuring element of the hub...

The slots released by Air France have had a positive effect on Vueling. Thanks to its 18 new daily frequencies, the IAG low-cost subsidiary will be opening 32 routes from Orly this November. This makes it the de facto second largest international carrier at the hub, just behind Transavia and ahead of...

And that's three! After Verona and Treviso in the Veneto region, Ryanair has just announced that it is opening a new base at Venice-Marco Polo airport, the nearest hub to the City of the Doges. The carrier will inaugurate this base for the 2022 summer season with three Boeing 737MAX aircraft. This means the launch of 18 air routes....

The new season for business travel is well and truly upon us: during the first week of September, one in four travellers boarding an easyJet flight did so for business reasons, according to data published on 6 October by the airline. This is equivalent to the ratio prior to the health crisis...

From Paris-Orly, Transavia is already showing its colours for this summer. From 27 March 2022, several new routes will be added to the network from the Air France low-cost subsidiary's main French base. For the moment, these are routes to Bilbao, La Palma, the Azores (Ponta Delgada), Yerevan, Glasgow, Ljubljana, Podgorica and Skiathos...

Vueling should be able to launch nine daily return flights from Orly after receiving all 18 slots released by Air France in exchange for the European Commission's green light for its recapitalisation. New routes should begin operating from November. Vueling is already the third largest airline operator at Paris Orly...

The first route operated by Norwegian airline Flyr will connect Oslo-Gardermoen to Paris CDG on 14 October. Services to Copenhagen (CPH) and Rome Fiumicino (FCO) will begin one day later. Each of these three new routes will be operated twice weekly by Boeing 737-800. Launched on 30 June, Flyr already serves Nice to...

Ryanair is expanding its presence in France this winter with around twenty new routes departing from the French regions. Many of these will be holiday destinations in Spain and Morocco. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="122177"] However, the new routes include two weekly flights (Monday and Friday) from Lille to...

Transavia is strengthening its Montpellier base for the winter season with the launch of daily flights to Orly. The airline will be offering up to 25 flights a week with Boeing 737-800s equipped with 189 seats. Sales of these flights began on 2 August. This new route completes the airline's winter schedule...

The decisions taken by the various health authorities are hardly favourable to French bee, which has been forced to adapt its timetables. Two events are affecting the airline's traffic. On 26 July, the American authorities announced that the possibility for Europeans to travel to the United States had been postponed until...

An Airbus A321 in flamboyant red parked on the tarmac at Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport for the first time on 15 July. The low-cost airline PLAY inaugurated its Paris CDG-Reykjavik route. The French capital joins a network that includes London, Tenerife, Berlin and Alicante. The carrier has also launched...

The end of travel restrictions imposed by the Danish authorities means that the low-cost carrier is gaining in strength at one of its most important bases, Copenhagen. The lifting of most travel restrictions for Danish and European travellers in the European Union is giving wings to the low-cost carrier Norwegian. The...

The current difficulties faced by CSA, the Czech national carrier, appear to be an excellent opportunity for the Lufthansa group, which has decided to open a new Eurowings base in Prague. It will be the airline's tenth base in Europe. One man's loss is another man's gain... Czech national carrier CSA is struggling...

Will Belarus become even more isolated than it is at present? One of the last Communist-style dictatorships in Europe has already been hit by international sanctions from the European Union and other Western nations. But the hijacking of a Ryanair plane by military forces and secret services is a new step...

The Icelandic low-cost airline PLAY will be landing in Europe over the next few weeks. Including Paris from 15 July. It intends to take advantage of the reopening of transatlantic traffic in the coming weeks and establish itself as a new alternative. The airline wants to follow in the footsteps of the former Icelandic carrier WOW...