Posts Tagged ‘Nice airport’
New flights to and from Cannes for the festival
Just in time for the Cannes Festival 2012, two low-cost airlines have opened new flights to and from Nice airport. This could interest anyone attending the festival, either directly or indirectly if they have to transfer to reach Nice airport. EasyJet is opening seven new connections to Nice, including Lille, Naples, Venice and Barcelona. This [...]
6 new destinations from Nice airport
Already the second busiest airport in France, the big travel news is that Nice airport will become even busier in 2012. After EasyJet’s announcement of more flights to Nice from March, Air France is now adding more destinations with six extra direct flights to Nice one month later. The destinations are Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Athens, [...]
Germanwings wins Cannes award with cheeky ad
German low-cost airline Germanwings won an award at the 2010 Cannes Lions advertising festival with a cheeky guerilla marketing clip that shows comments supposedly being made on the rival airline Easyjet. It’s a cheeky but brilliant idea that is very simple and very effective. Germanwings fly to many airports in Germany and Greece from Nice [...]
Essential info if you’re stranded in Cannes
This article was originally written during MIPTV 2010, when thousands of people were stranded in Cannes and Nice due to the shutdown of European airports. The info remains useful in case of air or rail strikes, which is why I left it. News is added in the comments section as updates. Although many people are [...]
EasyJet to start 6 weekly flights Nice-Rome
Low cost carrier EasyJet has just announced that it will start operating 6 weekly flights between Rome Fiumicino and Nice airport as of March 12. A quick look at their site threw up prices of between €25.99 to €38.99, which seems reasonable. EasyJet flies to 15 other destinations from Nice and carried 2.1 million passengers [...]
The cheapest way to get from Nice airport to Cannes
With taxis costing upwards of €90 depending on where you are staying in Cannes, it’s always worth checking the other options. If you are travelling with one or two people and have travelled a bit, you might just want to get downtown as quickly as possible in which case the taxis are a tempting option. [...]
Cannes news and tips to your desk
If you attend Cannes for Midem, Mipim, MipTV or the Cannes Film festival, perhaps you should get the relevant news straight to your desk rather than coming across it by accident on the web. Cannes or Bust runs an occasional newsletter with just that: tips, news, special offers and links to people with bright ideas. [...]
Nice airport experiments with mobile phone boarding passes
I’ve been reading for years about mobile phones being used as “tokens” that would act as concert tickets, bus passes and other uses. Nice airport is currently road-testing a system that would enable travellers to use their mobile phones as a boarding pass. After checking in (notably via the Internet), the traveller simply has to [...]
Taxis to Cannes from Nice airport
I used to be quite intimidated by taking taxis around Cannes, which is not normal. Most people arriving at any strange airport always have a sneaking feeling they are going to be ripped off. How true is this at Nice airport? I’ve no figures. What I do have is a few words of advice: * [...]
Changes in Nice airport shuttle timetables
UPDATE November 2010. The RCA airport shuttle (line n° 210) timetable has changed slightly. The last one leaves Cannes from close to the Mairie/town hall at 7pm! That’s right, after 19h, you will have to fork out €70-90 to get to the airport from Cannes. The bus n° 200 that goes through Antibes does run [...]


