Lufthansa will introduce 4D flight trajectory technology on 65 newly delivered Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft from 2024. The technology, called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract Extended Projected Profile or ADS-C EPP for short, will help to optimize flight profiles and reduce fuel…
Air travel in Europe is expected to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2025, Eurocontrol says in its forecast for 2023 to 2029. The air traffic management organization is seeing ‘vivid pent-up demand’ this year, but after 2025 it expects a…
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is trying to get one million people to sign a petition to force the European Commission to take action against France and the countless strikes at air traffic control (ATC). The airline is fed up with the…
Air travel in Europe recovered to 83 percent of 2019 levels by the end of last year or to 9.3 million flights. This is 3.1 million flights up on 2021, but still 1.9 million down on 2019, Eurocontrol says in…
The recovery of air travel in Europe is still a long way off 2019 levels. It could take until 2024 or even 2025 before it returns to pre-Covid levels. On May 21, Eurocontrol has provided an updated forecast which is more…
Ryanair has been the busiest European airline in 2020 as far as the number of daily flights is concerned. In a year dominated by the Covid-crisis, the low-cost operated on average 951 daily services, 59 percent fewer compared to 2.323…