Busy terminals, new airline partners and dozens more destinations to choose from – Billund Airport is flying high as it enters 2023. Last year marked a welcome return to form for the Danish airport following the Covid slump, with passenger numbers bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. Returning passengers have even more destinations to choose from […]
February 20, 2023 | Air Service Event News
Some 22 European countries have non-stop flights to the US in Q2 (April-June) of this year, according to Cirium schedules information data. Four of these are Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics. They collectively have 402,000 of the 12.1 million one-way seats – just 3%. Denmark ranks 12th out of the 22, Finland […]
February 14, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Finnair launched a new, long-haul service on Saturday 6 August when it began 3-weekly service from Helsinki to Mumbai in India. The service will be flown using the oneworld carrier’s A330-300s and will depart the Finnish capital on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The 5,930-kilometre route is not flown by any other carrier. Finnair previously connected […]
August 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The second half of 2021 saw the countries comprising the Baltic and Nordic region of Europe all show a significant recovery in passenger demand. By December the airports in the eight countries included in our analysis (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) were all reporting passenger numbers between 50% and 70% of […]
May 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Finnair has added the first of two new US destinations that it plans to start serving this year. On Sunday 27 March the oneworld carrier began 4-weekly service between Helsinki and Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas, a major hub for fellow oneworld member American Airlines. The 8,410-kilometre route will be flown on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and […]
March 30, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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
The latest TSA passenger statistics reveal that US demand for air travel last week was between 80% and 85% of the level achieved during the same period in 2019. This is the second week in a row that this has been the rate of recovery. Will it reach 90% (or even better) by the start […]
February 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The countries comprising the Nordic and Baltic region of Europe have seen significant variations in their rate of traffic recovery since the start of the pandemic. Norway, with its geography making domestic air travel the only viable means of connecting some regions, saw significant travel demand during the first year of the pandemic, at least […]
January 27, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
Finnair has commenced its long-haul operations from Stockholm ARN using A350-900s. The first route to start on 22 October was to Bangkok in Thailand. This was followed on 23 October by Miami with Phuket in Thailand launching on 24 October. Weekly frequencies are quite low to start with but are set to grow during the […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +
In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, passenger numbers using Sweden’s airports fell by almost 5%. Near neighbours Denmark and Norway saw zero growth, while Finnish airports registered growth of 4%. Across all of Europe traffic grew by around 3%. In Sweden, one of the reasons cited for the traffic decline was the growing social movement […]
October 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
This weekend has seen airport and airline network planners and developers finally meet face-to-face for the first time in over 18 months, as the 26th World Routes Development Forum takes place in Milan, Italy. This is a positive sign not just for the aviation industry, but for the whole business community as such conferences in […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story