The “Air Briefs” are a quick overview of the latest information from airports and airlines, their new services, equipment, plus also the openings and closures of lines, etc. In short, all these little things or little details which without being revolutionary regularly feed the news in the aviation world.
France and Europe
1,254 aircraft Boeing or Airbus will have been delivered by the two aircraft manufacturers to various companies around the world in 2024 (including 770 Airbus). That is less than in previous years because of the setbacks at Boeing that we are experiencing and the Airbus production lines which are having difficulty keeping up due to a lack of parts. The fact remains that their orders for delivery are currently reaching cumulative heights with… 17,000 devices waiting for the companies. A record!
Some will say that the terms air et sustainable development are somewhat contradictory. However, one cannot necessarily be dissociated from the other, especially if we want things to move forward and improve. This is also why a global ranking of the most efficient companies in this area is established each year. And for 2024, it's the Scandinavian company SAS who was elected before Malta Airlines and the Poles of LOT.
With the entry of Air Tanzania and, conversely, the exit of the Pakistani companies PIA and Airblue from the famous “Blacklist of banned companies”129 carriers are now banned from flying in Europe.
Among the new products coming from France, while Transavia announced ten from Paris or the provinces, easyJet It displays 9 new services planned from Bordeaux, Nice, Figari and Orly. And for The volley it will otherwise be a Nantes-Patras (Greece) and a Lille-Cosimo (in Sicily), for KLM a Biarritz-Amsterdam, for Cholera a Brive-Kerry (Ireland) and for Air Corsica un Nice-Florence..
As for Beauvais airport, after the arrival in December of the Romanian low cost And Water to Bacau (Romania), it will benefit from a new service to Chisinau (Moldova) from April with the return of SkyUp Airlines who left the place three years ago now.
Finally, a recent study on airline ticket prices reveals a clear trend: January offers the most advantageous fares for booking flights in France.
Americas & Pacific
Great first! United Airlines has recently allowed its passengers to locate their luggage via an “Airtag” which they can then trace via the company application. And ultimately fewer losses and lost luggage (there are over 30 million each year worldwide) for a better “passenger journey” as they say.
At the transatlantic level Qatar Airways has just launched a Doha-Toronto (Canada) and Air Transat plans a Toronto-Berlin for next summer.
In the same way as Qantas which we spoke to you about recently, Turkish Airlines also wishes to use modified Airbus A350-1000s (with an extra tank) to carry out non-stop flights to Australia and even New Zealand from Istanbul.
Still at the level of Australia, Qatar Airways will (re)launch service to Canberra, making the Australian capital its sixth destination in this country from Doha. To which we can now also add Chinese Junyao Air which does Shanghai-Sydney.
Asia & Middle East
Despite the war context in which his country is currently, the Israeli low cost Air Haifa has just started its flights with a first connection between Tel Aviv and Larnaca in Cyprus
In order to make life easier for its foreign passengers arriving at Tokyo-Haneda Airport, Japan Airlines now offers a baggage delivery system directly to the hotel for the latter. Still for 29 US$ per suitcase…
Change coming to South Korean skies. Korean Air has just bought its competitor Asiana in order to at the same time enter the Top 12 of the largest airlines in the world.
Specializing in serving its country, Cambodia, and more particularly the Angkor site, the company Cambodia Angkor Air has just changed its name to now be called Air Cambodia. At the same time, it expanded its fleet with three new ATR aircraft.
Africa
Funded by the government of the DRC and Ethiopian Airlines, Air Congo has just started its flights from Kinshasa with internal services to the Democratic Republic of Congo to begin.
Otherwise, Africa still seems to be of great interest to Gulf companies since Ethiad Airways has just opened a line between Abu Dhabi and Nairobi.
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