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From 7 May, La Compagnie will take off from Nice Côté d'Azur airport at 13:30 and arrive at New York Newark airport at 17:00. On the return leg, flights will take off from New York at 9.40pm and land in Nice at 12pm the following day. These flights will be operated by La Poste's fleet of A321neo...

The covid pandemic slashed the Eurowings network. But while European traffic is recovering this spring, Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary remains curiously absent from the Paris market. It now only offers one route from Paris CDG to Hamburg. With two daily flights between the...

Nice airport will therefore - quite logically - be joining the club of summer destinations served by Etihad. On Monday, the airline announced the launch of this seasonal flight between Nice and Abu Dhabi on 15 June. Etihad will operate two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. The flights will be operated in...

Gulf Air is continuing to expand its intercontinental network in Europe, positioning itself as a "niche carrier". The national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain will be inaugurating four new destinations. These are Manchester, Milan, Nice and Rome. Only Milan will benefit from five weekly flights from 1 June onwards from...

Iceland's national airline Icelandair is beginning to unveil its summer programme. The carrier will be launching two weekly flights between Keflavik international airport and Nice on 6 July. The flights will run every Wednesday and Saturday until 27 August. In addition to the Nice service, the airline is planning seasonal summer routes to...

As a result of the pandemic, international airports are adjusting their R&D priorities: after working on a seamless passenger experience, with biometrics in particular to speed up every stage of the airport journey, the time has now come for contactless technology. Nice airport is no exception to the rule, with the launch on 6 December of its...

The IHG Group has just added a second establishment in France for its Hotel Indigo lifestyle brand. After opening in Paris, in the Opéra district, in 2014, it is now heading for the Mediterranean with a new hotel in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Thanks to its location along the coast, the establishment is aimed primarily at a clientele of...

Mama Shelter is proving popular in southern European cities. After opening in Rome last October, the lifestyle brand will be setting up in Lisbon on 12 January. For this Portuguese foray, Mama Shelter has found an address in the heart of the capital, Rua do Vale de Pereiro, close to the emblematic...

"Urban Blue" is the name of the new company unveiled on 26 October by four airports, including a leading French hub. Nice airport has joined forces with its counterparts in Rome, Venice and Bologna to accelerate the development of vertiports, from their design to their...

The conference business will not escape the conquest of the West launched in Nice, as the dossier for the Parc des Expositions et des Congrès (Exhibition and Conference Centre) finally takes shape, replacing the Marché d'Intérêt National (MIN). "It's a project that's seen a lot of movement, especially over the last year, particularly in response to the major trends...

As the gateway - and standard-bearer - for the Côte d'Azur's MICE sector, Nice has undergone a vast urban transformation over the last ten years, with the tramway network now serving the airport, and greenery taking over from the car. This transformation benefits locals and business tourists alike. And it is shifting the centre of gravity...

After setting course for the north of France with an opening in Villeneuve d'Ascq in April and others to come in Marc en Baroeul and Lille, Newton Offices is also continuing its expansion in the south of France. Already established in Montpellier, Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, this player in the flexible office property market is now preparing to...

After opening two hotels in Nice at the beginning of the summer - Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza, in the Grand Arenas business district - the British group IHG is continuing to roll out its brands on the Mediterranean coast. In October, its lifestyle brand Hôtel Indigo will be opening in the seaside town of Cagnes-sur-Mer...

Nice airport has finally exceeded its 2020 traffic figures. With growth of 38% in August alone, France's second-busiest airport now boasts a 2% increase in total passenger numbers since January. Nice will have welcomed almost 3.5 million passengers between January and August...

The IHG group is putting its foot down in Nice, in the new Grand Arenas business district, by offering two solutions to business travellers. In addition to a Crowne Plaza on the upmarket side, the British hotelier is doing double duty with a more affordable adjacent establishment, the Holiday Inn Express Nice - Grand Arenas, located less than five minutes...

You've just opened a hotel in Lille, in one of the city's flagship developments, "31", rue de Béthune. What are the assets of this new establishment? Solenne Devys - This is a very special project, as it's part of the conversion of the former Galeries Lafayette, which is being carried out by Vinci Immobilier and Redevco on...

And that's two for Startway in Marseille. Within a few weeks of each other, this coworking specialist will have opened two spaces in the city. As is often the case with Startway, whose partner is the La Poste group, one of these developments involves the conversion of dedicated premises into new-generation workspaces. In...

The Anantara luxury brand is becoming more urban and more European at the same time. Developed by the Thai group Minor Hotels, this brand was already well established in Asia and the Middle East, mainly with very fine resorts. But it is now taking advantage of the synergies made possible by its owner Minor's acquisition of the NH Hotels group to expand...

Before the covid pandemic, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport was linked to some 120 destinations in 44 countries around the world. It was also the airport - outside Paris - with the highest number of long-haul flights. The airport now hopes to quickly regain this status. The 2021 summer schedule seems to support this recovery strategy. The...

The uncertainty surrounding the resumption of air traffic due to the persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing Finnair to suspend a number of its international routes. However, the airline has set a deadline for these suspensions: March 31, the date on which the summer timetable officially begins...