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This is the amount of wealth created per capita in Reunion in 2018, latest figure published by INSEE. It is 37% lower than that of the mainland, lower than in the Antilles but higher than those of Guyana and Mayotte. Another indicator set up by the law on real equality Overseas : the Reunionese....

The Mahorean subsidiary of Air Austral integrated a Boeing 737 from its parent company into its fleet in December to serve Reunion Island from Dzaoudzi. Ewa Air has therefore densified the aircraft to 183 seats, in single class, in order to offer particularly low introductory prices : from 129 euros round trip without luggage, with a....

In October, the prefecture set up a barometer to monitor the prices of around sixty consumer products., complementary to the monthly household consumer price index from INSEE. The implementation of this tool was entrusted to the company Sagis, which delivered its first results at the beginning of November, then a second....

The first commercial connection between Reunion and the Middle East was carried out on January 2, 2022 by the company Etihad Airways, with a B 787 chartered by the tour operator Alena Holidays. This Dubai-based company is managed by Rabin Apavou (son of Arlin and nephew of Armand Apavou), who set up this operation to allow the people of Reunion to go....

French Bee put online on December 18, 2021 between Paris and Reunion Island an A 350-1000 released a few days earlier from the Airbus manufacturing lines. The large capacity device (480 seats) is dedicated to the Indian Ocean line. French Bee has already placed an order for a second aircraft of the same model, who must enter....

Air Austral may blow momentarily : the company has 6 months to present a restructuring plan, according to the European Commission. On January 18, the latter gave the green light to a rescue measure announced at the end of August 2021 : the payment by the State of a loan of 20 million euros, complementary to the 80 million PGE already...

The number of patients treated for diabetes in Reunion increased by 3% per year between 2015 and 2019, according to the latest figures from the Regional Health Observatory. In 2019, the island had 79,900 diabetics, or 9% of the total population : a percentage twice as high as the national average. Revealed to....

The board of directors of the Real Estate Company of the Department of Reunion (CIDER) named Thierry Ouillon, as general director for a period of five years, from November 2, 2021. Aged 53, Thierry Ouillon occupait les fonctions de directeur général de l’Office Public de l’Habitat et de l’Immobilier dans le Puy-de-Dôme depuis 2019....

The new buildings of the CIRAD plant protection center, in Saint-Pierre, were inaugurated on November 22 by Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, in the presence of local elected officials and Elisabeth Claverie de Saint Martin, présidente-directrice générale du l'organisme français de recherche agronomique et de coopération internationale pour le développement. Launched in October 2019, financé par la...

For calculations of the number of companies, INSEE took the company into account in its legal definition. According to this approach, the non-agricultural and non-financial commercial sectors of Réunion counted 45,600 companies in 2019. Or, the economic modernization law of 2008 introduced a new notion of business in the economic sense, qui permet de prendre en...