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Riyadh Air: a young airline with the potential to change the alliances game?

There is every reason to believe that Riyadh Air will be a major global airline in the foreseeable future, and the logical question is whether it can tip the balance of power between global alliances. When the Gulf States decide...

ITA leaves moves from terminal 2F to 2B at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport

ITA Airways is moving terminals in Paris Charles-de-Gaulle. An expected decision, even if its destination terminal comes as a surprise. It came in the form of a terse press release on the airline's website: From the 13th of December 2023...

What to expect from the new partnership between Air France-KLM and Etihad?

Air France-KLM recently announced an extended and strengthened partnership with Etihad, which promises interesting synergies and logically raises the question of whether this is the first step towards something much bigger. It's been several weeks since the partnership between Air...

Flying Blue offers to earn miles with…Amazon.

Flying Blue members in France, the Netherlands and Sweden can now earn points for shopping on Amazon. An increasingly lifestyle-oriented loyalty program Amazon thus joins the ever-growing number of "non-airline partners" in the Air France and KLM loyalty program. A...

Codeshare, alliances, joint ventures…how do airlines work together?

"Alone we go faster, together we go further": airlines have taken this African proverb and are constantly finding new ways to work better together to maximize operations and profits for each. A subject that seems technical and to which...

Skyteam towards a dark year in Europe?

Skyteam's footprint in Europe risks being drastically reduced in Europe, potentially affecting the alliance's attractiveness to customers and partners from other continents. The footprint of an alliance in a given territory is indeed a major element of its attractiveness. An...

What if Lufthansa took over Alitalia?

The takeover of Alitalia is a bit like The Young and the Restless, when you think it's over a new twist comes to question everything. And the one we are about to talk about would not be of the...

American Airlines not at all serene in the face of Delta and LATAM

There are signs that American Airlines is not taking the transformation of the airline landscape underway in Latin America so well. Background: 1°) American Airlines is a partner of LATAM (Chile) within the Oneworld alliance, is the leading American airline in...

Will Delta leave Skyteam?

Delta's CEO, Ed Bastian, struck a blow about ten days ago by telling Bloomberg that the Skyteam alliance of which the airline is a member, "has not 'added much value to customers... to member airlines." and that the American...