flydubai (IATA code FZ) launched a new European service on Friday 10 March. It now connects Dubai and Milan BGY with 5-weekly (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) flights using its 737 MAX 8s. Frequencies will grow to daily from 18 April. The 4,640-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier. This is the Italian […]
March 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
In 2019 London’s Heathrow Airport was Europe’s busiest, welcoming 80.9m passengers. This was almost five million more than Paris CDG (76.2m) and nine million more than third ranked Amsterdam (71.7m). However, UK air travel was more severely impacted than other European countries when the pandemic struck in 2020 and Heathrow slipped to third that year […]
February 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
AnadoluJet, which is part of Turkish Airlines and uses the airline’s IATA code of TK, on 15 March introduced flights between Ankara and Dubai. The 2,655-kilometre 2-weekly service is being maintained each Wednesday and Sunday, with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. TK4302 departs Ankara at 00:50 local time, arriving in Dubai at 05:45 local time. The […]
February 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
flydubai (IATA code FZ) has taken advantage of the fact that the UAE continues to allow flights to and from Russia, to launch daily service between Dubai and St. Petersburg. Passengers on the 4,300-kilometre route will find themselves travelling on the LCCs 737 MAX 8s. Alternatively, they could choose Emirates’s daily service (operated by 777-300ERs) […]
January 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The last 15 months has seen the Italy to United Arab Emirates (UAE) market gain two new carriers and five new routes thanks to the decisions by Air Arabia, flydubai and Wizz Air to add routes between the two countries. The first week of December saw Air Arabia begin 3-weekly service between Sharjah and Milan […]
December 13, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
International long-haul traffic was hit especially hard by the pandemic, with many Asian countries in particular imposing extremely severe restrictions on foreign visitors. Some of these markets are still only just opening up to international passenger flights. For many European travellers, a popular way of reaching many key Asian markets was to use one of […]
November 21, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
flydubai (IATA code FZ) launched a new European service on Friday 24 June. It now connects Dubai and Pisa in Italy with 3-weekly (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) flights using its 737 MAX 9s. the 4,540-kilometre is not served by any other carrier. This is currently the Italian airport’s only non-stop service to the Middle East. […]
June 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
SmartWings has enabled Bratislava in Slovakia to become the latest European city to have a non-stop service to Dubai when it launched weekly flights to the UAE hub on Sunday 24 October. The 4,180-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s 189-seat 737 MAX 8s. The inaugural flight of QS 1500 was flown by OK-SWE. […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +
EXPO 2020 in Dubai has clearly been a major contributor to new routes in recent weeks and here’s another one. On 1 October, Lufthansa began 3-weekly service on the 4,570-kilometre route between Munich and Dubai. The service is currently set to operate until the end of April. Lufthansa already serves Dubai from Frankfurt with daily […]
October 14, 2021 | Latest Route News +
In the last four weeks, we have identified 67 new routes involving European airports. These were started between 11 September and 8 October. A total of 28 airlines had something to celebrate with Wizz Air leading the way with 24 new services, nine of which were from its recently opened base in Naples. In total, […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
With the delayed EXPO 2020 opening to the public on 1 October it is not surprising that the number of direct flights between Europe and Dubai has been growing quickly in recent weeks, with several airlines launching service to the UAE hub for the first time (airBaltic and LOT) and other carriers, notably flydubai, launching […]
October 4, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
On 27 September, airBaltic became the latest carrier to add service to Dubai, this time from its main base at Riga in Latvia. The 4,320-kilometre route will be served 4-weekly, departing Riga on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The inaugural service (flight number BT 791 operated by an Airbus A220-300, registration YL-CSG) departed Riga at […]
October 1, 2021 | Latest Route News +