Airport data collected for 2022 reveals that Europe’s six busiest airports all handled at least 48 million passengers last year. Istanbul IST led the way with 64.3 million followed by London LHR (61.6m), Paris CDG (57.5m), Amsterdam (52.5m), Madrid (50.6m) and Frankfurt (48.9m). Seventh placed Barcelona was some way behind with 41.6m passengers while eighth […]
March 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Arkia on 26 February introduced a 4-weekly service between its hub in Tel Aviv and Istanbul IST. The 1,165-kilometre route is operated each Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with the airline’s E195 aircraft, as well as the A321neo on select dates. The airline will expand its presence in Turkey with the introduction of flights between […]
March 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
In 2019 London’s Heathrow Airport was Europe’s busiest, welcoming 80.9m passengers. This was almost five million more than Paris CDG (76.2m) and nine million more than third ranked Amsterdam (71.7m). However, UK air travel was more severely impacted than other European countries when the pandemic struck in 2020 and Heathrow slipped to third that year […]
February 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Pegasus Airlines, on 18 February introduced flights between Istanbul SAW and Plovdiv in southern central Bulgaria. The 390-kilometre 2-weekly service is maintained each Wednesday and Saturday, with the B737-800 aircraft. PC305 departs Istanbul SAW on Wednesdays at 10:25 local time, arriving at 10:35 local time, while on Saturdays it leaves Istanbul SAW at 15:50, arriving in […]
February 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
flyadeal (IATA code F3) has landed in Istanbul IST becoming the Turkish hub’s 82nd airline. There are now 4-weekly flights from both Jeddah and Riyadh using the Saudi LCC’s A320s. Both routes will be served on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. According to Cirium schedules data, direct competition on the Jeddah-Istanbul IST route comes from […]
November 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Oman Air is not the biggest Middle Eastern airline, but it plays an important role in developing Oman’s ambitions as a business and leisure destination. Pre-pandemic the airline was serving 10 European destinations with non-stop flights from Muscat, the country’s capital. These were: Athens: 5-weekly Frankfurt: daily Istanbul IST: daily London LHR: 2-daily Manchester: daily […]
September 21, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Turkish Airlines has launched a new service to the US with the introduction on Friday 27 May of 4-weekly service between Istanbul IST and Seattle in the state of Washington. The 9,770-kilometre route will be flown using the Star Alliance member’s 300-seat 787-9s. Flights depart Istanbul every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 14:05 local […]
June 7, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
AnadoluJet, which is part of Turkish Airlines and uses the airline’s IATA code of TK, on 16 May transferred its Istanbul SAW to Milan service from Milan MXP to Milan BGY. The 1,670-kilometre route to Bergamo is already served by Pegasus Airlines, which operates 12-weekly during the remainder of the summer season (until the end […]
May 23, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The sixth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 1 May to Saturday 7 May) saw the launch of 143 new routes involving European airports. The start of a new month seems to have been a popular time to introduce a raft of new, mostly leisure routes, involving many new connections […]
May 9, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The fifth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 24 April to Saturday 30 April) saw the launch of 22 new routes involving European airports. This included the revived Flybe launching an additional five routes (including its first international services to Amsterdam), Aer Lingus Regional and PLAY both starting new routes […]
May 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
March passenger data has been collected for over 200 airports across Europe, including all airports in several major markets. Among countries with multiple airports, Portugal leads the way for traffic recovery with demand last month at 84% of the figure reported in pre-pandemic March 2019. Lisbon traffic was at 80%, Faro at 87%, Porto at […]
April 28, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
MIAT Mongolian (IATA code OM) on Wednesday 6 April became the latest carrier to serve what has recently been Europe’s busiest airport, Istanbul IST. The Mongolian flag-carrier began weekly service on the 5,990-kilometre route from Ulaanbaatar using its single 767-300ER, registration JU-1021. Frequency is set to increase to 2-weekly in June. Turkish Airlines already serves […]
April 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +