Paris Orly travel tips

Valentine’s Day is for lovers, right? Lovers of airfare deals, that is (at least for us travel addicts). And we’ve admittedly fallen hard for the two-for-one sale launched by all-business-class airline La Compagnie that is running through February 14.

For the past 18 months, French air travel has been dogged by strikes so chaotic and disruptive that one strike day was dubbed by the press a “journée noir” (black day) for the nation’s airports. 

Strikes are a regular occurrence in Europe, as employees withhold their labour to fight for better pay and conditions.

France will seek support from other EU nations for a minimum price on flights in an effort to cut the aviation sector's carbon emissions. 

AirHelp, the online service that files complaints against airlines on behalf of passengers entitled to compensation for air delays or cancellations, knows a thing or two about air travel. Because it’s hard for the average person to understand air passenger rights and pursue a legal claim when they’ve been wronged, AirHelp is always going toe-to-toe with airlines and airports—and reveals once a year which ones that treat their passengers for the better (or worse).