Overseas

Air Caraïbes is in the news this December with a host of new routes... Franck Benoit - On 12 December we relaunched our service to Saint-Martin with 3 weekly flights operated by A330-200 to Princess Juliana airport in the Dutch part of the Caribbean island. This service will be seasonal, however, and will be available until...

Follow in the footsteps of Albert Londres, Alfred Dreyfus, "Papillon", Ariane or even Asterix, the first satellite launched by the famous rocket... Wander through Cayenne or Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, discover the mangrove swamps, take a canoe trip along the border with Surinam, sleep in a hammock in a forest hut, literally touch history in the...

French Guiana had almost a dozen penitentiary centres, known as "bagne", which were used to remove those whom the successive regimes from 1852 to 1953 did not want in Metropolitan France, but also as a means of developing and populating the territory, for those who survived. Having built the town...

"Air Caraïbes and French Guiana began in 2008 with the opening of the Paris-Cayenne route. Since then, the link has gone from strength to strength, as we have accompanied the growth of the region and the mobility needs of our leisure, tourism and business customers. French Guiana is a destination that is still often little-known, and which is...

Originally founded by the space base to accommodate its staff on holiday and VIP guests during rocket launches, Camp Maripas was taken over in 2024 by Thomas Saunier, vice-president of the Compagnie des Guides de Guyane. Today, it is a popular venue for daytime seminars for up to 100 people...

Built by and for convicts, Saint-Laurent du Maroni still bears the scars of this painful French history. The transportation camp gives travellers a real insight into the life of the convicts. With moving images, such as the location of the guillotine - a small square area that travellers unconsciously walk around -...

When did Ferme François come into being, and how did the project evolve towards business tourism? Jean-Hubert François - Ferme François has been in existence for 12 years, growing crops and raising livestock. The agritourism part was added four years ago. The aim is to welcome the public, in particular business customers such as works councils,...

Building on the success of its new Paris-Nouméa via Bangkok route, launched in December 2024 using A330neo aircraft, New Caledonia's international airline is announcing a third frequency on the route in November. The route between Noumea and Paris via Bangkok, currently scheduled with 2 flights a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, will benefit from a third...

Turning disaster into opportunity. This was the message delivered by the Agence d'attractivité et de Développement Touristique de Mayotte (AaDTM), accompanied by representatives of the Union des hôtels et des offices de tourisme locaux at a recent press conference. The conference was held in Paris just a few days before Emmanuel Macron's trip to Mayotte and the...

The new flight between Fort-de-France and Toronto will start on 16 December. Air Canada will operate one flight a week between the two airports, every Saturday. Departure is at 3.25pm from the Martinique hub, and 8.15am from Canada's economic capital. The airline plans to operate this route with Boeing 737s...

Present in Paris for the IFTM Top Resa trade fair, Air Austral Chairman Marie-Joseph Malé does not usually express himself much. However, he outlined the foreseeable trend that Air Austral is set to follow in the coming months. "We're on an upward trend, after a year and a half of a rebounding pandemic", he explains....

It has finally happened. At the end of last week, Air Austral made its first flight in a brand new Airbus A220-300. On 18 August, the aircraft connected Saint-Denis de la Réunion with the island of Mayotte. This is the first scheduled service between the two French departments in the Indian Ocean to welcome...

Since mid-May, Tahiti's Papeete-Faaa international airport has returned to a level of activity more in keeping with its status as the gateway to French Polynesia. The lifting of restrictions by the government of French Polynesia over the past month has made a major contribution to this. American tourists are once again allowed to visit the archipelago, without any restrictive measures. Above all, from...

North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. These are the three geographical areas which benefit most from the new summer routes at Marseille-Provence international airport. In North Africa, the first airline to inaugurate new routes is Air Arabia Maroc. The low-cost carrier now offers flights to Fez and Oujda. Marseille-Fès is served...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused considerable turbulence for the Dubreuil Aéro group, which has Air Caraïbes and its long-haul low-cost sister French Bee under its wing. Passenger traffic plummeted by 40% in 2020 (*), impacted in particular by the closure of Orly from 31 March to 26 June, then...

At a time of unprecedented crisis in the airline sector, Corsair should be able to face the turbulence affecting all airlines with greater peace of mind. On Thursday, an agreement was made official between the French carrier, the French government and a consortium of investors. The consortium brings together entrepreneurs from the tourism and hotel sectors, based in the French West Indies, La Réunion and...

The reopening of Paris-Orly airport at the end of June means that Air France is gradually returning to the southern Paris hub. Alongside its main hub at Roissy CDG, the airline now serves around twenty destinations from Orly. For the time being, the network is purely domestic, and includes the services of "La...