Last year, Hannover welcomed almost four million passengers, making it Germany’s eighth busiest airport. Pre-pandemic, in both 2018 and 2019, the airport handled 6.3 million passengers, so last year’s demand is still 37% lower than in 2019. With little stimulation from (U)LCCs, Hannover’s share of the total German air travel market has fallen significantly from […]
February 17, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Between Sunday 26 June and Saturday 2 July, Air Service One has identified: 107 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 34 airlines involving 121 airports easyJet (25) and Corendon Airlines (16) launched the most, new routes 46 (43%) were already served by other carriers, 61 (57%) were not 29 countries involved […]
July 5, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of the leading airlines for new route launches in Europe this summer has been Corendon Airlines. The carrier comprises three separate entities; Corendon Dutch Airlines (IATA code CD based in the Netherlands), Corendon Airlines Europe (IATA code XR based in Malta) and Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC based in Turkey). Flights for all of […]
June 30, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC) began its first ever flights to Newcastle in the in north-east of the UK on Saturday 2 April with service from both Antalya and Dalaman. The fast-growing Turkish leisure carrier will operate both routes 2-weekly this summer. The Antalya service will be offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays with Dalaman flights […]
April 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair has revealed that Funchal will become the airline’s newest base, with two aircraft based at the Portuguese airport from the end of March 2022. The airport, which is located on the island of Madeira, is often referred to as Madeira Airport. Madeira is located around 400 kilometres north of the Canary Islands and 500 […]
November 25, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
In the six weeks since The ANKER Report was last published, Europe’s airlines have been extremely busy starting a surprisingly large number of new routes. This analysis covers the period of Saturday 12 June to Friday 23 July, a total of 42 days. In the first three days of July alone, some 200 new routes […]
July 27, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Fast-growing leisure carrier Corendon Airlines opened its latest base on 2 July at EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, as it is officially known. Most people simply refer to it as Basel (which is in Switzerland), as that is the nearest major population centre. However, the airport is physically in France but is administered jointly by French […]
July 6, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Turkey’s Corendon Airlines seems to be increasingly following in the footsteps of airberlin and Germania, by establishing bases at German airports to take locals on holiday to warmer, sunnier destinations. Having first started operations to Düsseldorf in S18 (to Antalya and Hurghada), the airline’s network from the German airport increased to seven destinations last summer […]