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
Many aviation analysts are predicting a tough winter for Europe’s airlines. Having relied on pent-up demand for foreign vacations to get them through this summer, there are ominous signs that the coming months may be more challenging. The increase in fuel costs for unhedged airlines, the on-going conflict in Ukraine and the related increase in […]
September 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week we examined the recovery rates of the leading domestic air travel markets in Europe. These ranged from just 50% in Germany to 117% in Italy. An obvious follow-up is to look at the recovery rates for the leading international country-pairs involving European nations. Again, the analysis is done on the basis of looking […]
The Greek air travel market is performing very well this summer. Latest data from the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority shows that the country’s airports welcomed 8.4 million passengers in June. That is down just 1% compared with June 2019. The country’s busiest airport, which serves the capital Athens, reported traffic down 7% in June. Domestic […]
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
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
Greece’s biggest carrier, Aegean Airlines, is offering non-stop flights from Athens to 78 international destinations this summer, including seven that it was not serving during the summer of 2019. This compares with 82 international destinations served three summers ago. The new routes, all launched this summer are (weekly frequency in August 2022 in brackets): 20 […]
July 13, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Europe’s second largest (U)LCC, easyJet, has had a slower post-pandemic recovery than its more high-profile rivals Ryanair and Wizz Air. With a higher proportion of its pre-pandemic capacity tied up in the slow-to-recover UK market, it has been outperformed by its main rivals. Current Cirium schedule data for July 2022 shows that easyJet’s seat recovery […]
July 8, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of the leading airlines for new route launches in Europe this summer has been Corendon Airlines. The carrier comprises three separate entities; Corendon Dutch Airlines (IATA code CD based in the Netherlands), Corendon Airlines Europe (IATA code XR based in Malta) and Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC based in Turkey). Flights for all of […]
June 30, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Strong Traffic performance During the very challenging second year of the pandemic, 2021, Athens International Airport handled over 12 million passengers exceeding the respective 2020 levels by 52.8%, but lagging behind by 51.7% compared to 2019. Traffic remained at low levels in the 1st half of the year, due to ongoing travel restrictions and COVID-19 […]
June 21, 2022 | Air Service Event News, Airports, Europe
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
Analysis by Air Service One suggests that the 10th week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 29 May to Saturday 4 June) saw airlines launch a total of 133 new routes involving European airports, up from 57 in the previous week. Highlights included new transatlantic routes from British Airways, Delta, Finnair, […]
June 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized