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Air Sewrvice One talks with Milan Bergamo

Air Service One talks with, Giacomo Cattaneo, Director of Commercial Aviation, Milan Bergamo Airport

With 2023 well underway Air Service One will be continuing our successful series of interviews with key air service development figures from airports and airlines worldwide. This time we spoke with Giacomo Cattaneo, Director of Commercial Aviation, Milan Bergamo Airport to understand how the airport has come back after such a huge struggle during […]

February 21, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

Bordeaux Airport – 128 direct routes and counting!

It looks set to be a stellar summer season for Bordeaux Airport, which has just released its flight schedule. The headline stats are: 128 direct routes (including 11 new routes), 93 destinations and 25 airline partners. The airport’s expanding route network is partly down to the densification programmes of major hub airlines, including IAG group […]

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A mega year for Münster/Osnabrück

Booming passenger numbers, a refurbished runway, and a visit from G7 leaders made 2022 a milestone year for Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO). Stats show that 834,000 passengers travelled through the airport in northwest Germany last year – an increase of 130 per cent compared to 2021. The airport’s post-pandemic recovery has been far more pronounced than […]

February 20, 2023 | Air Service Event News

Europe-Morocco traffic up 6% this summer versus 2019; Ryanair 60% bigger than Royal Air Maroc

Traffic statistics from ONDA in Morocco reveal that across the period May to July, passenger numbers at the country’s airports on flights between Europe and Morocco were up 6% versus the same period in 2019, from 4.21 million to 4.48 million. Demand was up 15% in May, down 3% in June and up 8% in […]

September 14, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

Air Service One talks with Marja Aalto, Aviation Senior Specialist, Business Tampere

What has been the biggest challenge for you regarding air service development during the pandemic? The overall situation in Finland. After the pandemic started, travelling by air has been totally paralyzed and also the recovery has been much slower than elsewhere in Europe. Finland is located in a remote area of Europe and is isolated […]

February 22, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Billund belies the pandemic to secure 37 new routes

Billund Airport — Denmark’s second largest — has bagged three new airlines and 37 new routes in the last year, despite the ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic. Traffic was also strong in 2021, with passenger numbers bouncing back to 70% of pre-pandemic levels. Some 3.7 million passengers travelled through the airport in 2019. Billund […]

| Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Copenhagen open for business and pleasure again

Last time we met, things were looking extremely rosy — Denmark had removed all Covid restrictions and traffic was on the up. Everything was looking, well, if not quite golden, then at least silvery. And then Omicron hit. “It was a very unfortunate setback — everyone was concerned that we could be back to square one,” […]

| Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Join the route development community at CONNECT 2022 in Tampere

Where better to reconnect than at CONNECT? Join the first route development event of 2022 in Tampere, Finland. Hosted by Business Tampere, the event will be the place where airlines, airports and tourism authorities will reunite to discuss global air connectivity recovery, while discovering an enchanting destination. Next year, once more, over 250 international hubs […]

October 18, 2021 | News & Analysis

HEL’s bells – Ryanair finally decides to serve Helsinki with eight new routes this winter

Ryanair announced on Wednesday 23 June that it would start regular services to Helsinki starting this winter from eight of its bases. The Finnish capital has not previously featured in the Irish ULCC’s list of destinations, though its Austrian subsidiary Laudamotion operated flights briefly from Vienna last summer. The airport will not be a base, […]

June 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, Top Story