Airport data collected for 2022 reveals that Europe’s six busiest airports all handled at least 48 million passengers last year. Istanbul IST led the way with 64.3 million followed by London LHR (61.6m), Paris CDG (57.5m), Amsterdam (52.5m), Madrid (50.6m) and Frankfurt (48.9m). Seventh placed Barcelona was some way behind with 41.6m passengers while eighth […]
March 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
A subsidiary of Air France-KLM, Transavia has grown significantly. This summer, it has 9.56 million one-way seats, up by an astonishing 52.3% versus S19 and 9.5% over the previous record. In comparison to S19, it has grown much quicker than other European LCC subsidiaries Vueling (5.4%) and Eurowings (-14.5%), although these remain much bigger by […]
February 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Croatia Airlines, an airline not normally noted for much route development activity, has been growing its scheduled services from Split. During the second week of June it has added services to: Bucharest (10 June, 2-weekly) Stockholm ARN (10 June, 2-weekly) Dublin (12 June, 3-weekly) Milan MXP (12 June, 2-weekly) Amsterdam (14 June, weekly) This brings […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The reborn Flybe is going head-to-head against British Airways and KLM on one of Europe’s busiest international routes. On 29 May the now Birmingham-based regional airline started 12-weekly service between London LHR and Amsterdam using its 78-seat Q400s. In 2018 and 2019 this route welcomed around 1.75 million passengers according to UK CAA data. This […]
June 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wednesday 13 April 2022 saw the return of the Flybe brand to UK skies with the launch of service between Birmingham and Belfast BHD, the airport’s two bases. A 78-seat Q400, registration G-JECX operated the first flight between Birmingham and Belfast, which was given the flight number BE 404. Given all the numbers that could […]
April 25, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Amelia (IATA code 8R) has replaced Air France on the 470-kilometre link between Strasbourg in France and Amsterdam. The French regional carrier will operate the route 10-weekly (twice each day, Monday to Friday) using its ERJ-145s. The first flight was on Monday 11 April using aircraft registration F-HESR. Up until Friday 8 April, Air France […]
April 21, 2022 | Latest Route News +
KLM has finally added Austin in Texas to its US network from its base at Amsterdam. This route was originally announced in 2019 with flights set to start in 2020. However, due to the pandemic the introduction of the service was delayed until Monday 28 March. The inaugural flight (KL 667) departed the Dutch hub […]
March 31, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Saudia chose 4 January as the launch date for its new 2-weekly (Tuesdays and Thursdays) service between Jeddah and Amsterdam. The 4,500-kilometre route will be operated using the airline’s 787-9s and faces no direct competition. According to Cirium data, frequency is set to increase to 4-weekly from April with the addition of Friday and Sunday […]
January 14, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY (IATA code OG) became the latest airline to serve western Europe’s busiest airport when it began 2-weekly service (Mondays and Fridays) on 3 December from its home base at Reykjavik in Iceland to Amsterdam. The 2,040-kilometre route will be flown by the airline’s bright red A321neos, with the inaugural service of flight OG 460 […]
December 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
For the fourth straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in October, handling almost 4.4 million passengers. However, that is still 30% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was again another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport again welcomed over 3.8 million passengers, a decline of just 7% […]
November 30, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the third straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in September, handling just over four million passengers. However, that is still 39% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was again another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 3.8 million passengers, mostly tourists, a decline of […]
October 28, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story