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.
Calls have been growing in Europe for airline bailouts to include environmental conditions and before the COVID-19 crisis, the French government was among those calling for greater sustainability efforts from airlines in recent months, introducing an eco-tax on flights departing France from the start of 2020.
Air France-KLM posted a net loss of €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) for the first three months of the year, hit by the devastating impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis on its operations.
European carriers are taking the first steps towards restoring parts of their flight schedules, after the COVID-19 pandemic left most carriers grounding virtually their entire fleets.
