Over half of all passengers flying between Scotland and North America flew indirectly last year, a proportion common in most years. It will not be much different this summer, with Cirium schedules information data indicating that available non-stop seats are still a quarter lower than they were at their peak in S17. In a reversal […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Delta Air Lines now connects its main hub in Atlanta with Cape Town in South Africa. On Saturday 17 December the SkyTeam member introduced 3-weekly service on the 13,040-kilometre route. Flights depart the Georgian airport on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The route was supposed to start a couple of weeks earlier (hence the date on […]
January 3, 2023 | Latest Route News +
This December, Delta’s weekly seat capacity across its global network is set to be down 10% compared with the same month in 2019. Interestingly, the number of flights is down 17%, while ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres) are down by just 6%. What this means is that according to analysis of Cirium schedules data, the average […]
November 29, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
New York is by far the biggest US market from the UK, as confirmed in our recent story looking at the London-Boston market. The market welcomed a new carrier on 12 August when Norse Atlantic Airways began daily service between London LGW and New York JFK using 787-9s, formerly operated by Norwegian. Between 2004 and […]
August 19, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
For Delta, Boston Logan Airport is its ninth busiest, with just under 1,000 departures per week in July. This generates over 120,000 weekly departing seats. Atlanta remains the airline’s busiest airport with three times as many departing seats as its next biggest airport, Minneapolis/St. Paul. However, New York would rank second if the capacity of […]
July 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Delta has begun daily service on the 1,200-kilometre route between New York JFK and Milwaukee. The inaugural flight from New York was on the evening of Wednesday 15 June, while the first flight from Milwaukee was early the following morning on Thursday 16 June. The service is flown using CRJ700s operated on Delta’s behalf by […]
June 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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 +
Among the three global US carriers, Delta had been the leading airline for most US-Europe routes before the pandemic struck. In 2019, the Atlanta-based carrier had offered 69 routes in the market, ahead of United (62) and American (58). Although non-essential travel between Europe and the US was basically banned for much of 2020 and […]
April 29, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America, Top Story
After non-essential travel between Europe and the US was once again permitted last November, airlines on both continents appear to be hoping that there is plenty of pent-up demand for crossing the Atlantic this summer, as capacity data from Cirium shows that the number of planned seats for the peak summer period is down just […]
March 11, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). However, the biggest […]
September 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America