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.
Airlines are making changes to their flight planning and schedules to avoid Iranian and Iraqi airspace amid growing military tensions between the U.S. and Iran—and after a Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) aircraft crashed after take-off from Tehran, killing everyone on board.
A tie-up with Lufthansa could boost Alitalia’s revenues by €100 million ($112 million) a year, an executive from the German group told a hearing of the Italian government’s transport committee Jan. 7, Italian media reported.
Early in 2019, Airbus’ salespeople had to accept a harsh reality—that the market for new A380s was too slow for production to be sustained beyond 2021.
