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
Kuwait Airways is currently the 12th biggest carrier between Europe and the Middle East as measured by available seats in July 2022. It ranks just behind Wizz Air and Ryanair (which serves Amman and Tel Aviv) but ahead of Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air and Oman Air. While total seat capacity between the two regions is […]
July 26, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
The recent announcement by the Dutch government that it plans to limit Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s annual aircraft movements to 440,000 has come as a shock to just about everyone, not least the airport itself. The government is justifying this decision on environmental (noise and pollution) grounds, though negotiations involving the airport are expected to continue […]
July 7, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
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 +
Last week was the third week of the summer 2022 (S22) season which had started on Sunday 27 March. It also included Friday 15 April which is Good Friday, part of the Easter celebrations and a national holiday in many countries. In 2019, Good Friday fell on Friday 19 April so for the next couple […]
April 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week was the second week of the summer 2022 (S22) season which had started on Sunday 27 March. After celebrating the launch of over 300 new routes during the first week, the following week has seen airlines launch a further 53 new routes according to our analysis. This contributed to the 7-day average recovery […]
April 11, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 +
Last week saw an improvement in the rate of airline recovery based on analysis of Eurocontrol data. The 7-day average recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) as of Saturday 26 March, was 75.1%, up 1.1 percentage point from the previous week’s figure of 74.0%. A […]
March 28, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story