The French overseas territories are unequally served. If the French West Indies are now overwhelmed by a plethora of airlines, with Air France, Corsair, Air Caraibes, French Bee, Norwegian and Level, other territories such as New Caledonia, French Polynesia...
Last step of this trip in Asia, the return to Paris from Manchester on Air France.
Check-in and ground experience
This time we will check-in our luggage in the hold. The number of suitcases swelled a bit during our stay and...
An umpteenth episode of the Alitalia takeover soap opera and now we can say that the Italian airline is starting to feel the pinch.
Reminder of previous episodes
In the 1990s, Alitalia almost merged with KLM, which finally withdrew from the...
Yesterday we talked about Lufthansa's renewed interest in Alitalia and the huge impact this would have on the battle for leadership in Europe and for the big alliances.
Only a few hours after writing this article a bomb fell, real...
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...
Every year we try to make at least one trip together, Olivier and I. This summer we went to Beijing and Seoul...from Manchester. Why ? Looking for a "good deal" we found an unbeatable "companion fare" from Manchester: £1700...
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...
Delta will spend $1.9 billion to take a 20% stake in the South American airline LATAM (Chile), it was learned yesterday.
Delta will also invest $350 millions to support this strategic partnership.
Delta moves into Latin America
Finally, the U.S. airline will...
We thought Alitalia was finally saved and well it seems that it is not the case!
The set-up which consisted in the nationalization of the airline with the entry of Delta in its capital seemed to be definitively validated but...