Ryanair will fly to 232 airports this summer, of which Dublin is the second most served (after London STN). According to Cirium schedules information data, it has almost six million one-way seats from the Irish capital, a considerable 20% increase versus S19 and 9% year-on-year. This expansion means that the ULCC has over half (53%) […]
March 20, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The importance of the UK to Ireland market cannot be overstated. In 2022, over 28,000 people flew between the two countries each day, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority data. While this includes those who transferred to other flights, the majority were local. Across the whole year, more than 10.3 million people were transported. While […]
March 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in County Mayo, Ireland West Airport Knock is one of six airports in the country to have airline service. Knock ended 2022 with 722,000 passengers, according to its own statistics. While that was 10% below 2019 – its best year to date – it was still its fifth best year on record, albeit its […]
February 7, 2023 | Airports, 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
Dublin Airport celebrated the opening of its new northern runway on Wednesday 24 August. The first flight to use the new runway was flight FR1964 to Eindhoven, operated by Ryanair’s 737 MAX 8-200 (registration EI-HAW), which departed at 12:10 local time, according to flightradar24.com. Construction of the 3,100-metre runway began in 2016 and was mostly […]
August 25, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ireland’s busiest airport is seeing traffic recover rapidly in 2022. Though passenger numbers were down 52% in January compared with 2019, the latest figures for April show that demand is now at 85% of the level it was three years ago, in other words, down just 15%. Schedule data provided by the airlines suggests that […]
May 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
This week sees the start of new Irish regional carrier Emerald Airlines (IA5TA code EA) operating a number of routes between Dublin and destinations in the UK on behalf or Aer Lingus (IATA code EI). As previously noted, on some of these routes it will replace Aer Lingus mainline, on some it will complement Aer […]
March 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair recently announced that it would be offering its largest ever summer schedule from its home base at Dublin in Ireland. This will comprise 121 routes (as of 24 January) with over 930 weekly departures currently scheduled for August 2022. That compares with 100 routes and 885 weekly departures in August 2019 based on analysis […]
Eastern Airways on 19 July launched service between Southampton on the UK south coast and Dublin in Ireland, operating 4-weekly (on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays). The 435-kilometre route faces no direct competition at present. The inaugural service (flight number T3 864 operated by an ATR 72-600 registration G-IACY) departed Southampton at 16:00 local time […]
July 22, 2021 | Latest Route News +
In 2019, the UK ranked third among Ryanair’s country markets for annual seats, offering 26.6 million departing seats, just behind Spain (27.7m) and Italy (28.7m). However, if we look at just international seat capacity then the UK (with 25.7m) jumps well ahead of Spain (20.7m) and Italy (16.3m), highlighting Ryanair’s much greater presence in the […]