Lyon

Business travellers who opt for a car when travelling to Gare de Lyon in Paris or Lyon Part-Dieu can benefit from a new partnership with Trenitalia. The railway company has joined forces with Ector to offer its customers a valet parking service. Passengers can now book a valet service...

A few months after making its debut in France, the Spanish company Renfe is continuing to make its mark in France. Launched on the Lyon-Barcelona route on 13 July, and then between Marseille and Madrid almost immediately afterwards, its AVE high-speed trains are now to be extended to Paris. This extension of its services is in line with...

It would be hard to find a hotel better placed for business trips. Overlooking France's second-largest business district, the Pullman Lyon, which opened its doors on 27 November, looks down on La Part-Dieu station. Housed in the To-Lyon tower, a 170-metre skyscraper designed by Dominique Perrault which...

The decision was expected. Trenitalia has announced its intention to operate 5 daily return trips between Paris and Lyon from 10 December, compared with the current three. This refocusing on this strategic route had been planned ever since the landslide in the Maurienne valley on August 27 interrupted services to Turin, the capital of...

Air Algérie is continuing to expand, with the airline aiming to serve more than 60 destinations over the next few years. The carrier has recently strengthened its presence on the African continent. At the end of September, Air Algérie inaugurated two weekly flights to Johannesburg. Last March, the carrier had already returned to Libreville in Gabon. The carrier...

It was a hard blow. Just as Trenitalia was getting off the ground in France, landslides on 27 August in the Maurienne valley forced the Italian company to suspend its two daily Paris-Milan rotations. And a return to normal operations is not expected before June 2024, by which time the thousands of...

Updated on 11 October at 2pm Ranked fifth in the GDS-Index last year, Bordeaux is back where it was in 2021, in ninth place. A disappointment? Not necessarily, as Bordeaux's score has risen from 85.10 to 87.10, reflecting the city's growing commitment to a sustainable tourism strategy...

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...

The first OK Store - meaning rental agency - has just opened at Nice airport. A second will open in Lyon on 1 September, also on the airport site. With these first openings on the French market, OK Mobility's international offensive has reached a major milestone. The...

The Tribe brand will be adding a new hotel in Lyon at the end of the summer, its 6th establishment in France and the 11th in the world for this lifestyle brand from the Accor group. As in the Batignolles and Saint-Ouen districts of Paris, Tribe will be setting up in a place that reflects its image, lively and bohemian, the...

(Article updated on 19 June) After Trenitalia, the opening up to competition in the rail sector is about to become a little more of a reality in France with the arrival of Renfe. The Spanish national operator plans to launch an AVE line between Lyon and Barcelona on 13 July. Renfe will then inaugurate the Marseille-Barcelona-Madrid route on 28...

EasyJet is expanding its range of services from four French airports, with a number of routes that should be of interest to business customers - provided they can adapt to limited flight frequencies. For example, the airline will be linking Grenoble to Manchester from 10 December. However, only one weekly service will be operated, on Sundays... EasyJet outlines...

Qatar Airways has resumed its direct flights between Nice and its hub, Doha's Hamad International Airport. May 9 marked the airline's return to the Côte d'Azur airport after a three-year interruption. Qatar Airways now offers four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by Boeing 787-8. The aircraft has a...

Last month at ITB Berlin, Qatar Airways announced the opening of seven new routes, including 3 in France. Nice-Doha will be the first route to return to the network. It will resume on 9 May with four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights depart from Nice-Côte d'Azur at 4pm and arrive...

With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Tuesday 28 March, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to...

Updated on 24 March at 1pm While industrial action against pension reform has been causing disruption in French skies since the start of the week, it is expected to continue until at least 27 March. And not just at Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence, the two airports which have seen the most disruption...

Twin Jet, the French airline specialising in regional transport, is expanding its network and from 17 April will be offering flights between Lyon and Lille airports. The airline will be offering 9 weekly flights with two frequencies per day from Monday to Thursday and a single frequency on Fridays. This route, mainly...

Air Transat has just announced that it will be offering direct flights between Lyon and Montreal next winter. This decision transforms a seasonal flight into a permanent service between the two cities. The airline, which operates up to one daily flight between the two cities during the summer season, will be offering three flights a week in winter. The frequencies at...

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...

Business travellers who pass through Lyon Part-Dieu on a regular basis have been able to watch this new skyscraper, the Tour To-Lyon, rise gradually, almost right up against the station. Designed by architect Dominique Perrault, the 170-metre-high, 43-storey tower is a new focal point for the city. Overlooking the railway hub, it is...