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Interview: Maria Race, Director of Environmental Policy, United Airlines

How long has United Airlines been committed to sustainable development? Maria Race - We've been working on biofuel projects since 2009, but before that we had already initiated the switch to electric power for our ground equipment, particularly at Houston airport, where their share has reached 75%. Some of our...

Caption, a new lifestyle brand for the Hyatt group

Hyatt is adding to its collection of lifestyle brands with the presentation of its latest addition, Caption by Hyatt. While the American group had already extended its footprint in the upmarket and leisure segment with the 2018 acquisition of Two Roads Hospitality and its Alila, Joie de Vivre and Thompson brands, it is on...

Delta doubles its stake in the Paris-Boston route

Delta will soon be offering a new option on the transatlantic route. On 22 May 2020, the American airline will add a new daily service between Paris and Boston, doubling its offer between the two business destinations. The new flight will leave Paris CDG at 3.40pm and reach Boston at 5.30pm. On the return leg, business travellers will...

Citizen M's American nights

Citizen M is preparing for a major offensive in the United States. In parallel with its expansion in Asia - in Taipei in 2017, then in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur this year - the Dutch retailer will be rolling out its affordable design concept in several major American cities. Established in New York in 2014, Citizen M is now...

Swiss and Lufthansa expand their long-haul network for spring 2020

Swiss will be expanding its intercontinental network by 2020 with new routes to Washington and Osaka from its Zurich hub, in addition to the year-round service to Miami from March, which until now has only been offered in winter. From 26 March onwards, with daily frequencies, the...

Four Seasons does it again in San Francisco

At 345 California Center - a 48-storey building, the fourth highest in the city - the destination's second Four Seasons hotel will soon be opening its doors. However, it will have to wait until 2020, when the renovations to the rooms and public areas will be completed - in addition to...

Minneapolis, Aer Lingus' 14th transatlantic destination

After Los Angeles, Newark, Hartford, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle, seven US destinations inaugurated since 2015 and the integration of the IAG group, it is now the turn of Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minnesota) to join the Aer Lingus network. The Irish national airline now operates six flights a week there, and will even adopt a daily frequency from this month...

Delta: upmarket economy class on the...

It's an investment that goes against the grain of what the American airline industry has been doing for over a decade. Delta Air Lines is investing in its economy class service, modestly dubbed the "main cabin". Better still, the carrier, partner of Air France-KLM in a joint venture on transatlantic routes and member of the Air France-KLM...

Miami airport gets $5 billion makeover

At the beginning of June, the local authorities approved a vast modernisation programme for Miami airport, which could cost up to five billion dollars - just under 4.5 billion euros - as part of a project planned over five to fifteen years. International airport officials plan to increase the airport's capacity...

Jetblue wants to launch transatlantic flights

The transatlantic route, with 73 million seats on sale during the summer of 2019, seems to be rather mature. Since the open skies agreement and the joint ventures sealed between American and European airlines, the number of air routes between the two continents has multiplied, including connections that would have been impossible to imagine even a decade ago. American Airlines...

Economy in Seattle: big players and start-ups, the winning duo

It's just past midday on 6th Avenue, at the corner of Lenora Street. In front of the "take away" windows of the avenue's restaurants, whole queues are forming. But it's all happening very quickly. Vegan salads and healthy mezze have been ordered and paid for online. All you have to do is pick up the packet with your name on it...

Seattle: Capitol Hill, the women's revival

At the top of the hill that rises from Elliott Bay, the once residential area of Capitol Hill is undergoing a complete renewal. The beautiful patrician houses lining Volunteer Park and the brick buildings of the main shopping street, East Pike Street, are undergoing a metamorphosis. A symbol of wealth at the turn of the 20th century,...

Turning 30 in Seattle: portraits

Casey A. Wynecoop, 35, co-director of The Intellectual House, University of Washington Washington State still has 29 Indian tribes "I grew up on an Indian reservation east of Seattle, in Spokane, a small town named after a tribe that means 'children of the sun'. Washington State still has 29 tribes....

Hotels: openings of all kinds

It all began in 1924, just after the Great War, when Seattle was gaining notoriety, thanks in part to its port, which had become the second largest in the United States after New York. As a result, travellers flocked to the city, but they lacked a prestigious address. It was the Olympic Hotel that marked the beginning of the boom...

The spirit of the place according to Ludovic Morlot

"Just a stone's throw from Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle orchestra, I like to pop in between rehearsals at Pike Place Market for a snack at the Paris-Madrid Grocery. But in the evenings after the concerts, I take the time to find quieter places like Adana, with its Japanese purity, in the...

Seattle: address book

IDENTITY CARD Currency: the dollar (US$). 1 euro = 1.14 US $ (March 2018). Area code: +1 (United States); 206 (Seattle) Time difference: - 9 h. GETTING THERE AER LINGUS, the Irish airline, has been operating four weekly flights between Paris and Seattle since May 2018, with a stopover in Dublin. The attraction: this is the only European airport with a...

Yotel takes up residence in Washington

"The closest hotel to Capitol Hill" is a punchline that should attract many business travellers, diplomats and other lobbyists visiting Washington. The Yotel group has just announced its acquisition of the Liaison Washington Capitol Hill hotel. The hotel will undergo a major makeover to bring it into line with the hotel group's image and its...

The "Shutdown": US air transport is in the doldrums

The day of 14 January brought a new dimension to the American "shutdown", the result of the tug-of-war between President Trump and the Democrat-majority House of Representatives over funding for the famous "wall" at the border with Mexico. There is still a total impasse over this funding, leading to the closure of federal government departments, including...

Delta Air Lines: Premium Economy for the entire fleet...

French business travellers are probably familiar with Delta Comfort+, an enhanced economy class that passengers can book on the domestic and international routes of the American airline Delta Air Lines. This product offers a number of advantages over traditional economy class, such as seven to ten centimetres extra space between each row,...

New York: address book

IDENTITY CARD Currency: the dollar (USD). 1 euro = 1.17 USD (June 2018). Area code: +1 (United States); 212 (Manhattan); 718 (Brooklyn). Time difference: -6h. GETTING THERE AIR France offers five flights a day between Paris and New York JFK, four from Paris CDG and one from Paris Orly. There are also two flights a day...