Despite passenger traffic growing by three-quarters between 2005 and 2019, few of Europe’s busier airports remain as affected by the pandemic as Zurich. It welcomed 22.6 million passengers last year, down by 28% versus 2019 and the lowest level (excluding 2020/2021) since 2009, according to the airport’s own figures. Zurich’s recovery has not been helped […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cuba has welcomed its latest route from Europe. On 11 November, Spain’s charter carrier Iberojet introduced a weekly operation from Madrid to Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second city. It joins Cubana on the 7,120-kilometre route. Six Cuban airports have European flights Six airports in Cuba have flights to Europe this winter, down from eight […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Bulgaria is the 10th largest country in the EU and has a population of just under seven million people. It is about half the size of neighbouring Romania and also shares a border with Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey, as well as having a coast on the Black Sea. Its GDP per Capita is […]
September 20, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 +
Although Condor is a German leisure airline, it will also be offering flights this summer to holiday destinations from Vienna in Austria and Zurich in Switzerland. Condor last served the Austrian capital in January 2018 with flights to three destinations in the Canary Islands. On 8 April, the airline returned with the first of four […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With 25.5 million passengers in 2019, Düsseldorf Airport was Germany’s third busiest airport that year. However, with the opening of the new airport in Berlin (which in effect combined the traffic from Schönefeld and Tegel), Düsseldorf slipped to fourth in Germany in 2020 and 2021. Last year, the airport welcomed almost eight million passengers, 21% […]
March 2, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
German leisure airline Condor was Europe’s 34th biggest in 2019, based on departing seats from European airports. According to Cirium data, the airline offered over 8.6 million seats from European airports, as well as 1.6 million seats from non-European airports. In Germany, it ranked fifth with just over five million departing seats, behind Lufthansa (56.6m), […]
February 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
German leisure carrier Condor increased its holiday offering from Hamburg on Tuesday 24 August by launching a weekly flight to Samos in Greece. The inaugural service on the 2,197-kilometre route (flight number DE 1700 operated by an Airbus A320, registration D-ATCH) departed Hamburg at 06:18 and touched down at the Greek airport just under three […]
September 1, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Germany’s Luthansa Group already has a wholly-owned, lower-cost subsidiary, Eurowings (IATA code EW). It even used the airline prior to the pandemic to launch long-haul services from Frankfurt. Cirium Data and Analytics shows that in late October 2019, Eurowings was offering flights from Frankfurt to Barbados, Las Vegas, Mauritius and Windhoek in Namibia. So why […]
July 29, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America, Top Story