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
France has always been a large and critical market for easyJet. This year, the country has 21.2 million easyJet seats, making it second only to the UK by capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. With the change to winter schedules has come another new airport for easyJet in France. It started service to Paris BVA, […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the fifth straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in November, handling 3.84 million passengers. However, that is still 30% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was Paris CDG with 3.35 million passengers, 41% fewer than it handled two years earlier. In October, the French airport […]
December 30, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vistara has launched a rare new route between Asia and Europe with the commencement on 7 November of 2-weekly service between Delhi and Paris CDG. Flights will operate on Wednesdays and Sundays using the carrier’s 787-9 Dreamliners. Competition on the route is provided by Air France (4-weekly) and Air India (3-weekly). Vistara is a joint […]
November 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
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
Air France has added Muscat in Oman to its route network, with the launch on 24 October of 3-weekly service (Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays) from Paris CDG, via Dubai on the outbound flight. Flights are set to become non-stop in both directions from 18 December according to Cirium Data and Analytics schedule information. Air France […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +
For the second month in a row, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in August, handling just over 4.5 million passengers. However, that is still 32% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 4.3 million passengers, a decline of 23% […]
easyJet added two new routes to Milan BGY on Monday 6 September, with the introduction of services from its bases in Amsterdam and Paris CDG. The Dutch route will initially be served 3-weekly with frequency set to increase to 4-weekly from early October. The French route will be served 4-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and […]
September 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Passenger statistics collected for over 330 airports across Europe show that Istanbul’s new airport is once again Europe’s busiest airport in July, a position it last held in April. In May, Moscow DME was the busiest airport, while its neighbour Moscow SVO took the top spot in June. The two busiest Moscow airports have now […]
Romania’s Blue Air has targeted Milan LIN airport for growth this summer. Having launched domestic service to Catania on 16 August and international service to Barcelona also on the same day, on 23 August it launched operations from the downtown Italian airport to Paris CDG. The inaugural flight on the 645-kilometre route (flight number 0B […]
September 1, 2021 | Latest Route News +
The latest passenger figures for airports in July show that in western Europe Paris CDG was the busiest airport with 3.05 million passengers, just edging out Amsterdam which reported welcoming 3.03 million passengers. Frankfurt, which had been busier than both Paris CDG and Amsterdam in June, handled 2.85 million passengers. The next three busiest airports […]
August 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport has become the latest European airport to be the busiest for passengers. In June the Russian airport, which is the main base for flag-carrier Aeroflot, welcomed 2.94 million travellers, beating Istanbul IST into second place. The Turkish mega-hub handled 2.80 million passengers. Moscow Domodedovo, which had led the way in May with […]