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.
European airlines which hoped progress in rolling out vaccines would lead to some sort of recovery are instead having to face the reality that tighter travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus are going to keep demand down in the near term.
Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith has reportedly called for the conditions Europe is expected to impose on the Franco-Dutch airline group’s recapitalization to be proportionate.
