North America
Aeromexico restores its flights in Europe
From 13 June, Aeromexico will be increasing the number of flights from Mexico City to Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam. This will bring the combined offer to Europe to over 170,000 seats, an increase of 83 %. In detail, Spain will benefit from the largest capacity. The Mexican airline will offer...
Airline capacity returns to growth in Europe
After several months of depressed air travel in Europe, the acceleration of vaccination against Covid-19 on the European continent is beginning to bear fruit. Better immunity coverage and the travel protocols introduced by the European Union have eased restrictions. This is benefiting the business of...
The pace of vaccinations will influence the reopening of continents
While we wait for collective immunity to the Covid-19 virus, vaccination campaigns are being stepped up worldwide. However, there are major variations from one continent to another. These are the findings of an investigation by the New York Times. In partnership with the University of Oxford, the American daily has created a Covid barometer, which analyses the state of...
Air Canada abandons plans to buy Air Transat
This has been the great soap opera of Canadian air transport. That of the takeover and merger of Air Canada with its competitor Air Transat. It began in the summer of 2019 and came to an abrupt end at the beginning of this week. The reason: the covid crisis and the fear of reduced competition on...
Timid return of the Boeing 737 MAX in America
The consecutive crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people. The cause was faulty computer navigation programmes. This led to the suspension and total flight ban on the latest model from the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Nearly two years will have passed since...
Vast rescue plan for US companies
To avoid bankruptcies and mass redundancies, US airlines will benefit from a vast rescue plan. Around ten of them have reached an agreement in principle with the Trump administration for a wage support programme worth 25 billion dollars. "Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines,...
Qatar Airways/American: from worst enemy to best friend...
It was just over a year ago during the ITB Berlin world tourism trade fair. The Chairman of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, was expressing his anger to the world's press at the obstructions put up by certain members of the oneworld alliance - in particular the CEOs of American Airlines and Qantas - to their...
Slower air traffic growth in Europe in 2019
The latest data from ForwardKeys, a firm which analyses the development of global air traffic by working on the capacity of flights in service, flight searches and more than 17 million booking transactions per day, reveals that in 2019, the growth in the number of international air journeys rose by 4.5...
Wyndham Hotels acquires La Quinta
Wyndham Hotels has announced the acquisition of La Quinta, one of North America's leading mid-market hotel brands. The $1.95 billion transaction will be effective in the second quarter of 2018 and will add nearly 900 hotels and 87,000 rooms to the US group's offering. According to the...
Toronto wants to become a mega-hub
The growth of Toronto Pearson International Airport should be bolstered by both a dynamic open skies strategy and a policy of welcoming foreigners to Canada. As the country's leading hub, with 44.3 million passengers a year, Toronto Pearson International is now envisaging itself as a 'mega hub', the equivalent of Dubai for...
San Francisco: aiming for zero waste
Almost as legendary as the Golden Gate, the Bay Bridge is a popular destination for people who have chosen to settle near Oakland, spurred on by the property boom. 4 Even today, the association is immediate: San Francisco is the city of flower power, tolerance and Harvey Milk. And yet, even though...
New York: to the other side of the East River
Economy - New start city At the end of 2013, New York broke two records with four million jobs and more than eight million inhabitants. But it's no longer just Wall Street, insurance or real estate that make it so attractive. High-tech and the good life are taking over. Fulton Street, south of Manhattan...
Washington DC
And they are not alone. The business world is also rushing to Washington. Sometimes with bated breath and open mouths. For some sectors, the federal government has even become the last line of defence. Rather incongruous in a country where the word "Washington" has until now served as a byword for...
Mexico Polanco
Forget the heap of grey concrete leaden under toxic clouds: in Mexico City, Polanco is an enchanted interlude, with its tree-lined avenues, charming squares, grand post-colonial mansions, narrow streets named after writers or philosophers, and well-dressed gentlemen on the arms of elegant women. It's a rich neighbourhood, where...
Downtown Miami
The good thing about Miami is that it's very close to the United States," Americans are wont to joke. Exaggerated, of course, but not completely out of place. The air of the Tropics, the omnipresence of palm trees, the pre-eminence of the Spanish language: all this contributes to maintaining a certain exoticism. A particularism that is apparently very attractive, since Miami...
Greater New York: Business as usual
Is France doubting itself? Fortunately, New York is there to reassure it... Between the media frenzy surrounding the new Vuitton boutique on Fifth Avenue, the enduring fame of chefs Éric Ripert and Alain Ducasse, the huge best-seller success of the book "French Women don't get fat" and, above all, the invasion of the streets of New York...
