Located in Brittany in the far northwest of France, Brest’s recovery continues. Brest welcomed 801,000 passengers in 2022, over a third lower than in 2019, its record year to date. Analysis of Brest’s passenger statistics reveals that this was primarily because of the domestic market, which was down by an estimated 293,000 passengers (-28%) versus […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The importance of the UK to Ireland market cannot be overstated. In 2022, over 28,000 people flew between the two countries each day, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority data. While this includes those who transferred to other flights, the majority were local. Across the whole year, more than 10.3 million people were transported. While […]
March 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in County Mayo, Ireland West Airport Knock is one of six airports in the country to have airline service. Knock ended 2022 with 722,000 passengers, according to its own statistics. While that was 10% below 2019 – its best year to date – it was still its fifth best year on record, albeit its […]
February 7, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vueling now serves Shannon in the west of Ireland. On Monday 12 September the Spanish carrier began 2-weekly service on the 910-kilometre route from Paris ORY. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday using the airline’s fleet of A321 aircraft. No other carrier connects these two airports. This is Vueling’s third route to Ireland from […]
September 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ireland’s busiest airport is seeing traffic recover rapidly in 2022. Though passenger numbers were down 52% in January compared with 2019, the latest figures for April show that demand is now at 85% of the level it was three years ago, in other words, down just 15%. Schedule data provided by the airlines suggests that […]
May 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
This week sees the start of new Irish regional carrier Emerald Airlines (IA5TA code EA) operating a number of routes between Dublin and destinations in the UK on behalf or Aer Lingus (IATA code EI). As previously noted, on some of these routes it will replace Aer Lingus mainline, on some it will complement Aer […]
March 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
After non-essential travel between Europe and the US was once again permitted last November, airlines on both continents appear to be hoping that there is plenty of pent-up demand for crossing the Atlantic this summer, as capacity data from Cirium shows that the number of planned seats for the peak summer period is down just […]
March 11, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Emerald Airlines (IATA code EA) became Ireland’s newest airline when it operated its first flight (on behalf of Aer Lingus Regional) on Saturday 26 February between Dublin and Donegal (IATA code CFN which represents the nearby town of Carrickfinn) in the north-west of Ireland. The 225-kilometre route will be operated 2-daily by the carrier using […]
March 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Aer Lingus on 20 October launched its first ever long-haul route from the UK, when it began 3-weekly service (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) on the 6,700-kilometre route between Manchester and Bridgetown in Barbados. This comes just four days after KLM began serving Barbados from Amsterdam. Aer Lingus operated the new route using G-EILA, one of […]
October 25, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Last week JetBlue became the latest airline to venture into what was, pre-pandemic, the apparently highly lucrative air travel market between the UK and the US. Travel restrictions were recently eased for US citizens wanting to visit the UK. Sadly, there remain major restrictions for UK citizens wishing to travel to the US. Despite this, […]
August 17, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America, Top Story
On Friday 25 June, Lufthansa launched service between its main hub at Frankfurt and Cork in Ireland. The 1,210-kilometre route will operate weekly (on Fridays) until mid-July, when an additional Monday service is set to be added. Currently the service is set to operate until 10 September with CRJ 900s operated by Lufthansa CityLine. While […]
June 28, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Analysis by The ANKER Report of the latest flight movement data published by Eurocontrol allows a comparison to be made about how quickly 16 of Europe’s biggest flag-carriers are recovering. Calculating the average number of daily flights using a 7-day moving average (to remove day of week variations) for June 2021 and June 2019 shows […]