According to our research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines this year launched over 1,800 new routes involving at least one European airport. This compares with almost 2,100 that we identified in 2021. However, it should be noted that following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February we stopped tracking new […]
December 16, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Aeroitalia (IATA code XZ), the recently launched Italian carrier, on Monday 14 November introduced up to 3-daily flights between its new base at Milan BGY and Rome FCO. The 475-kilometre route connecting Italy’s two biggest cities will be flown using the airline’s 737-800s and faces no direct competition. However, there is significant indirect competition in […]
November 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air added Saudi Arabia to its route network on Wednesday 28 September. The milestone route was between Rome FCO and Dammam. The 3,820-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier and will be flown 2-weekly using the airline’s A321s. Initially the flights will be on Wednesdays and Sundays, changing to Mondays and Fridays […]
September 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air has connected two of its western European bases by launching service between Rome FCO and Dortmund. The first flight was on Tuesday 27 September. There will be 4-weekly flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, at least until the end of October when the Sunday service is dropped. From the end of March […]
Wizz Air has added Turku in Finland to its network from Rome FCO. The 2,190-kilometre route launched on Monday 26 September. The service will operate 2-weekly with flights on Mondays and Fridays. Turku does not appear to have had a regular, scheduled service to the Italian capital before. This becomes Wizz Air’s third route at […]
September 27, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Passenger data for July from Assaeroporti reveals that Italy’s airports handled 18.8 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 20 airports (all of which handled at least 250,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Brindisi and Turin […]
September 8, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has arguably been the most proactive airline anywhere in the world when it came to network development since the start of the pandemic. According to Cirium schedule data for July 2022, it is currently offering 33% more monthly seats than it did in pre-pandemic July 2019. However, due to the evolution of its […]
July 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Icelandair (IATA code FI) began not one, but two new routes on Wednesday 6 July. That day saw the launch of 2-weekly service from Reykjavik KEF to both Nice in the south of France and Rome FCO. The 2,940-kilometre Nice service will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays until 27 August. The 3,325-kilometre connection to the […]
July 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Qantas (IATA code QF) now offers a 3-weekly, non-stop service between Perth and Rome FCO. The inaugural scheduled service (QF 5) departed Australia on Saturday 25 June at 22:50 local time and landed in the Italian capital 15 hours and 35 minutes later at 08:26 (local time) on Sunday 26 June. The return flight (QF […]
June 30, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In 2019, Italy’s Rome Fiumicino Airport ranked as Europe’s 11th busiest airport, handling 43.4 million passengers. Since 2000 total traffic had grown by 68% but there was a significant difference between domestic and international demand. While developments in the national high-speed rail network had contributed to domestic air travel falling by 11%, international passengers had […]
November 3, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Transavia has expanded its route network from Paris ORY with the addition of three new services. On Friday 22 October the carrier added new routes to Berlin (3-weekly), Rome FCO (4-weekly) and Santiago de Compostela (2-weekly). This followed the launch of 3-weekly service to Stockholm ARN on Thursday 21 October. Air France’s in-house LCC faces […]
October 25, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Italy’s ‘new’, government-owned airline, ITA Airways (IATA code AZ, same as its predecessor Alitalia), officially launched operations on Friday 15 October. The airline plans to operate with 52 Airbus aircraft this winter (seven A330-200s, 27 A320s and 18 A319s). The airline’s future fleet plans appear to be 100% focussed on Airbus aircraft, including the A220-series. […]
October 18, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story