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France's regions, the new playground for coworking
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...
Anantara: Asian luxury conquers Europe
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...
A tougher summer programme for Nice airport
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...
Finnair confirms its network until March 2021
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...
Biarritz, Montpellier and Nice return to Orly
Air France is gaining momentum at Orly by resuming services to Nice as well as Biarritz and Montpellier. On the latter two routes, however, it will have to rely on the return of EasyJet. This August, EasyJet is launching a regular service between Paris airport and Biarritz and Montpellier. The decision...
Nice airport ready for takeover
While the government has just unveiled the details of the second phase of deconfinement - and the return to mobility in France and then Europe - Nice airport is doing the sums. And at a time when many players in the travel industry are counting their losses and waves of redundancies, this is yet another...
Hilton increases the number of openings in France
Hilton is continuing to grow in France at an accelerated pace. From 15 establishments at present, the American group is preparing to double in size by 2022. And this after having already doubled its offering over the last four years. Hilton is proud to have opened more hotels in France than at any time in its history.
Gulf Air takes a holiday in Nice
On 2 July, Gulf Air's Airbus A321neo will take to the tarmac at Nice airport for the first time. The 166-seater aircraft, including 16 seats in Business Class, will connect the Côte d'Azur airport with Bahrain every Thursday and Sunday. The route will nevertheless be limited to the summer period,...
At Nice, Air Canada is banking on business travellers
Challenging the centralisation of the French air transport model, and the omnipotence of Paris-CDG: this is the ambition of the major regional airports, and in particular the Nice hub. With this in mind, Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur has found a major ally on the transatlantic route: after unveiling its ambitions for Toulouse airport, Air Canada...
Nice expands its intercontinental network with Beijing
This is a real victory for Nice airport, which becomes the first regional airport to obtain a direct air link with China. From August 2, Air China will be offering three flights a week to Beijing-Capital in Airbus A330-200s with a two-class configuration and a capacity of 227 passengers, including 28...
El Al proposes a flight Nice-Tel-Aviv
Israeli carrier El Al has been offering a direct service between Nice and Tel Aviv since Thursday 4 April. These services are offered three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. These flights, which last almost four hours, are operated by Boeing 737-900s with 172 seats, 16 of which are in...
Nice airport plays the "Indoor Positioning" card
Nice airport, which recorded its eighth consecutive year of growth in 2018, is stepping up its announcements for business customers. In addition to new air routes - notably to Russia with Ural Airlines, or with the forthcoming arrival of La Compagnie to New York - news is just as busy on the ground....
Nice asserts itself as a link with Russia
Nice has never seemed so close to Moscow. From 1 May, Ural Airlines' A321-200s will be landing on the Côte d'Azur airport tarmac. The Russian carrier will operate two flights a week between Nice and Moscow Zhukovsky airport, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A breath of fresh air for a saturated Northern European sky The airport...
Eighth year of growth for Nice airport
Following on from Lyon-Saint Exupéry, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport has now posted record results. Last year, the airport welcomed 13.85 million passengers, representing traffic growth of 4.1 %. This is the eighth consecutive year that the Côte d'Azur hub has improved its performance. However, the Nice hub scheduled fewer flights...
Nice: inauguration of the tramway to the airport
Since 15 December, business travellers have been able to travel directly to Nice airport on line 2 of the tramway from Magnan station in the city centre. On 14 December, the city inaugurated part of the West-East tramway line, linking Grand Arénas to Nice-Côte d'Azur airport. In particular, it serves...
La Compagnie positions itself on the Nice-New York route
Regular business travellers on the Paris-New York route will soon no longer be the only ones able to take advantage of La Compagnie's 100 % business concept. From 6 May, the French carrier will be offering a seasonal service between Nice-Côte d'Azur and Newark-Liberty airports. Until the end of October 2019, the airline...
Qatar Airways returns to Nice
The summer period is often very quiet, sometimes too quiet. Fortunately, Qatar Airways is no slouch when it comes to news: a few days after its bid to acquire a stake in American Airlines, and against a backdrop of turbulent diplomatic relations with its Gulf neighbours, the Doha-based carrier is making its presence felt this week on the French market...
Nice-Monaco: easyJet bets on helicopters
Who could have imagined a few years ago that a low-cost carrier would add a helicopter transfer service to its range of services? Yet this is the latest news from easyJet on the French market. It is the official announcement of an agreement with Monacair for the...
Marseille, Nice, Cannes: address book
MARSEILLE How to get there By train: the SNCF operates more than 20 daily TGV services between Paris and Marseille. Journey time: 3 hours. By plane: Air France offers 23 daily flights to Marseille. Tel: 3654 - Internet: www.airfrance.com Hotels VILLA MASSALIA. This hotel belonging to the Concorde group opened...
Nice: Sophia Antipolis, 40 years old and full of projects
The main road that cuts through the pine forest gives access to buildings that are buried deep in nature, the whole being located around fifteen kilometres from Antibes, in a very strong smell of conifers where cicadas rustle. "Sophia Antipolis is 1,300 companies and 30,000 employees united by the same desire to...






































