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.
EasyJet said it would open its seventh base in France, at Nantes Atlantique Airport in the west of the country, basing three Airbus A320 aircraft there beginning next spring.
Ryanair has accused UK air traffic control (ATC) provider NATS of discriminating in the supply of staffing at its London Stansted Airport base, leading to greater delays and favoring the city’s larger Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Netherlands-based pilots union Vereniging Nederlandse Verkeersvliegers (VNV) said it has reached agreement in principle on a new collective labor pact with KLM and will not plan any more strikes while it awaits a vote by its members’ council.
