Analysis of air passenger traffic data across Europe this winter suggests that recovery rates have pretty much flattened out in many countries and at many airports. With the start of the Northern Hemisphere Summer 2023 season (S23) just a week away, Air Service One has decided to take a look at which of Europe’s airports […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Unlike Ryanair and Wizz Air, who have both increased their market share of European air travel since 2019, easyJet’s share has remained virtually unchanged at around 7.5%. This still makes it Europe’s second biggest carrier, well ahead of Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for 2023 Q2 indicated that easyJet’s […]
March 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Booming passenger numbers, a refurbished runway, and a visit from G7 leaders made 2022 a milestone year for Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO). Stats show that 834,000 passengers travelled through the airport in northwest Germany last year – an increase of 130 per cent compared to 2021. The airport’s post-pandemic recovery has been far more pronounced than […]
February 20, 2023 | Air Service Event News
Lufthansa’s lower-cost subsidiary Eurowings can trace its origins back to 1993 and has just celebrated its 30thanniversary. A brief history of the airline’s evolution from regional carrier to its current incarnation can be found on the Eurowings corporate website. The basic Eurowings brand (IATA code EW) has been joined in recent times by the long-haul […]
February 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The last week has sadly seen the collapse of two European airlines, Flybe version 2 and Flyr. Both carriers were launched since the start of the pandemic and focussed, at least initially, on their respective domestic markets of the UK and Norway. While the revived Flybe remained focussed on the domestic market for all of […]
February 3, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Germany’s airports handled just over 12.6 million passengers in November 2022 according to ADV statistics published recently. While this is 42% more than in November 2021, it is 27.8% fewer than in November 2019. The traffic recovery rate of 72.2% does not compare favourably with that of the other major European air travel markets. Spain […]
January 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Latest airport traffic data from Germany confirms that in August the recovery rate versus 2019 stood at just 75%. Although the airports handled more than 18.4 million passengers (up 56% compared with August 2021), that was still 25% fewer than in August 2019. What was particularly significant was that domestic air traffic was down 55% […]
September 29, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Back in June we revealed how among western Europe’s biggest country markets for air travel Germany was lagging significantly behind its rivals; France, Italy, Spain and the UK. Schedule data for June indicated that capacity was only at 75% of the level of June 2019, while the other major European countries were all at 85% […]
August 19, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
After the COVID pandemic struck and impacted air travel in March 2020, international travel was seriously impacted for a long time due to the restrictive and ever-changing travel rules imposed, somewhat arbitrarily, by governments around the world. In Europe it was noticeable that in many countries, it was easier to maintain domestic services as these […]
July 29, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ahead of the 150th IATA Slot conference in Seattle, Air Service One spoke with Thilo Schmid, CEO, Köln Bonn Airport. We wanted to understand how Köln Bonn Airport is rebuilding its network in the wake of the pandemic as well as find out more about the new face of the airport. You joined Cologne Bonn […]
June 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Analysis of airport passenger data for April reveals that among Europe’s biggest air travel markets, Germany has been the slowest to recover. Passenger numbers were down 35% across German airports in April, compared with 27% in Turkey, 26% in the UK, 16% in Italy and just 12% in Spain. As it takes a while for […]
June 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last Friday (7 January 2022), Ryanair announced that it would be closing its Frankfurt FRA base from the end of March 2022. It blames the decision on the airport increasing its charges. Ryanair’s first flights from Frankfurt FRA were on 29 March 2017 to Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca. In early September a […]
January 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis