Air Service One has collected October passenger figures for almost 250 airports across Europe, including the vast majority of major airports. These can be found in our free to download EATS (European Airport Traffic Statistics) file on the Air Service One homepage. We have identified all major airports reporting over one million passengers in October […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Greece’s Sky Express (IATA code GQ) has added two new international routes from Athens in the week before the start of the W22/23 season. On Wednesday 26 October the carrier began 5-weekly service on the 1,520-kilometre route to Milan MXP. These two airports are already connected this November by three other carriers according to Cirium […]
November 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The Greek air travel market is performing very well this summer. Latest data from the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority shows that the country’s airports welcomed 8.4 million passengers in June. That is down just 1% compared with June 2019. The country’s busiest airport, which serves the capital Athens, reported traffic down 7% in June. Domestic […]
Greece’s biggest carrier, Aegean Airlines, is offering non-stop flights from Athens to 78 international destinations this summer, including seven that it was not serving during the summer of 2019. This compares with 82 international destinations served three summers ago. The new routes, all launched this summer are (weekly frequency in August 2022 in brackets): 20 […]
July 13, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Delta Air Lines now connects Boston and Athens, the first airline to do so in over 20 years. The SkyTeam carrier began service on 27 May with a 3-weekly service on the 7,650-kilometre route. Olympic Airways last flew between these two airports in 1994. Delta’s flights depart the US east coast airport on Wednesdays, Fridays and […]
June 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
German leisure carrier Condor recently resumed service to Athens after an absence of some 20 years. On Monday 18 April the airline began 4-weekly service from Düsseldorf using its A320 fleet. The 2,005-kilometre route is already served by Aegean Airlines (5-weekly increasing to daily in June) and Eurowings (4-weekly). Condor will only operate the service […]
April 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
UK leisure airline Jet2.com recently launched its first regular services to Athens, when it began 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) from both Birmingham and Manchester. The airport serving the Greek capital became the airline’s 15th destination in Greece. Jet2.com faces no competition on the route from Birmingham. However, both easyJet (up to 5-weekly) and Aegean […]
April 26, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Greece’s Sky Express became the latest new carrier to serve London Heathrow Airport when it began 4-weekly service from Athens on Sunday 1 August. Flights are set to operate initially on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. Additional flights on Tuesdays and Wednesdays are currently bookable from the week commencing 16 August. The inaugural service (flight […]
August 3, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Despite (as yet) no significant easing of the US’s entry restrictions regarding European nationals, US carriers have recently increased their services to Europe and even started new routes. One such is United Airlines’s new daily service between Washington IAD and Athens. The first flight (UA 982 operated by a Boeing 787-8, registration N45905) departed the […]
July 5, 2021 | Latest Route News +