Warning, little bird in the cabin
Normally, birds are a problem for air transport. Especially when they are sucked up by aircraft engines (255 deaths have been recorded in accidents caused by birds since 1988). Airport managers have tackled this problem by installing safety nets, ultrasound repellents, green lasers, scaring balloons with raptor heads, gas...
READING TIME: 2 minIndia: fastest growth in domestic air traffic worldwide
If you had been asked the question, you could have answered that c‛est China has the strongest growth in domestic air traffic. Well, you would have been wrong. It is in India that domestic traffic is exploding. Although ‛l'india is still the second most populous country in the world...
READING TIME: 2 min297 million trips
China recorded 297 million air passenger trips in the first half of 2018, a 12.4% year-on-year increase. The country's air cargo trade reached over 3.55 million tonnes during the same period, representing year-on-year growth of 6.4% for the first half of 2018. So far, passenger air traffic volume has represented 31%...
READING TIME: 1 minPlane: why flights are longer than 20 years ago
You think a 1h15 flight to Barcelona-Madrid is fast? Yet it is longer than in 1995. Indeed, at the time, this same flight lasted only 55 minutes. If air travel today is longer than it was 20 years ago, it is for a...
READING TIME: 2 minTourism: Nepal targets 2.5 million visitors within five years
The government of Nepal wants to reach the threshold of 2.5 million international tourists within five years compared to...
Boeing announces the launch of the B797 which will fly in 2025
The Boeing 797, a mid-range aircraft that is expected to change domestic and international business travel to Australia, is...
Women are still rare in cockpits
The stereotype of the airline pilot, necessarily a man, sometimes a hero, has a hard life: in the cockpits...
Welcome to the Air & Water show
Since 1959, the Chicago Air and Water Show, the largest free show in the United States, has become an...
South Africa : opening of the sky and take-off of tourism
Since Israel’opened up’ its skies to airline competition, the volume of flights has been steadily increasing and prices have...
Beluga XL, the new whale of the sky
A smiling whale-shaped fuselage, the Beluga XL, the new cargo plane of the Airbus family, took to the air...
