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.
A group of investors has agreed to buy Scandinavian travel company the Ving Group—which includes Thomas Cook’s Nordic airline—five weeks after the Sept. 23 collapse of leisure group Thomas Cook sparked the UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation of stranded holidaymakers.
Italy has authorized a further delay for the presentation of a formal business plan for Alitalia’s relaunch, prolonging uncertainty over the bankrupt carrier’s future as the final lineup of its rescue consortium members remains unclear.