ITA Airways has 12.29 billion ASKs to, from and within Italy this summer, according to Cirium schedules information data. It is behind only Ryanair as the largest airline serving the southern European nation. Replacing Alitalia, ITA’s first commercial flight was on 15 October 2021. Eighteen months later, it remains 30% smaller by ASKs than perpetually […]
March 22, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
According to our research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines this year launched over 1,800 new routes involving at least one European airport. This compares with almost 2,100 that we identified in 2021. However, it should be noted that following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February we stopped tracking new […]
December 16, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Routes Europe 2022, to be held in Bergen, Norway will be the 15th route development forum uniting the European region. Taking place from 18-20 May 2022, the event attracts the region’s leading airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss their air service networks. Set over three business days, the conference programme will bring together airline CEOs and […]
April 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Despite the pandemic, it was a busy year for airline route planners working for airlines in the US. As traffic recovered more quickly (compared with Europe) to reach around 80% of 2019 demand by the end of the year, US carriers in particular used the opportunity to try out many new routes. The ANKER Report […]
January 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
While demand for air travel in Europe in 2021 may have still been down significantly compared with 2019, that did not mean that airline route planners had a quiet year. In fact, quite the opposite, as many airlines were willing to experiment with new routes thanks to having excess capacity. As a result, The ANKER […]
January 6, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
This weekend has seen airport and airline network planners and developers finally meet face-to-face for the first time in over 18 months, as the 26th World Routes Development Forum takes place in Milan, Italy. This is a positive sign not just for the aviation industry, but for the whole business community as such conferences in […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Eurocontrol flight data for the second week of August, shows that there has been no overall improvement in flight recovery compared with the previous week. The number of aircraft movements has remained stable at 70.5% of the 2019 figure for a second week in a row. Does this suggest that this is as […]
During the first day of the Routes Americas 2021 event, taking place in Orlando this week, Peter Cerdá, Regional Vice President The Americas, International Air Transport Association (IATA), and Matthew Cornelius, Executive Vice President, Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA), set the scene for the two-day conference by outlining the state of the air transport industry in […]
June 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America
While getting aviation traffic flows restarted does not appear to have been a major topic of conversation for the leaders of the G7 nations during their meeting in the somewhat unlikely setting of Cornwall in the south-west of the UK, airlines have been showing some signs of recovery during the last four weeks. Not only […]
June 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines (IATA code PQ) was founded in June 2017 and operated its first flight in May 2018. It is closely linked to the local tour operator Join UP! which was founded in 2002. Initially operating mostly charter flights, the airline has since developed an extensive network from its main base in Kiev. Originally […]
May 19, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
