Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.
Helen combines a deep knowledge of the aviation industry with years of experience in journalism. She was a business reporter at Flight International in London before moving to Paris to work for Reuters as European Automotive Correspondent. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian, the Observer, the Telegraph, Airline Business and Aircraft Cabin Management.
French airports have lodged a legal challenge in Brussels over a planned French law that will ban the operation of internal flights on routes for which a rail alternative of 2.5 hours or less exists.
Lufthansa and easyJet won backing from a European court over deals they undertook to buy Air Berlin assets, after the court dismissed two cases made by Polish airline LOT.
In the run up to COP26, which the UK is hosting later this month in Glasgow, the government has set out a new sustainability strategy, with aviation and—in particular—sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) playing an important role in the broader aim to become a net-zero society by 2050.
