Yorkshire’s Leeds Bradford Airport welcomed 3.29 million passengers last year. By December it was handling as many passengers as in the same month of 2019, but across the year as a whole traffic was down 18% compared with the last pre-pandemic year. Unusually, 2019 had not been the airport’s busiest year. That happened in 2017 […]
March 22, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The UK’s tenth busiest airport, Belfast BFS welcomed 4.8 million passengers in 2022, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While that was 23% fewer than in 2019, this coming summer is set to be its biggest yet by seat capacity. Cirium schedules data indicates that the airport will have almost 2.7 million one-way seats, […]
February 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of UK CAA monthly statistics for all of last year reveal that UK airports welcomed over 224 million passengers in 2022. That is more than three times as many as the 65.6 million handled in 2021, but still 25% fewer than were processed in 2019. Relative to 2019, the UK’s best month was October […]
February 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One recently estimated that airlines started around 1,850 new routes across Europe (excluding Russia) in 2022. Analysis of Cirium schedules data suggests that airlines have already revealed plans for at least 500 more new routes starting in 2023. However, with airlines announcing additional new routes almost every day at the moment, that number […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Since the arrival of COVID, the UK’s recovery in air travel demand has been well below the European average with the country adopting severe travel restrictions in the early days and waiting longer than many of its European neighbours before removing the majority of restrictions. It has consistently lagged behind its major European rivals France, […]
December 9, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Jet2.com opened its London STN base on 30 March 2017. Alicante, Faro, Lanzarote, and Palma began that first day – routes unsurprisingly still going nearly six years later. In S19, Stansted overtook Leeds Bradford to became Jet2.com’s second largest base, behind Manchester. It had 976,000 departing seats from Stansted in S22, according to Cirium schedules […]
December 8, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest airport traffic statistics from the UK CAA for August 2022 confirm that none of the country’s top 15 airports has yet seen traffic recover to pre-pandemic levels. Even Germany, which has a significantly lower rate of recovery than the UK, had a few airports that were recording traffic growth compared with three years […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
Analysis by Air Service One suggests that the 13th week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 19 June to Saturday 25 June) saw airlines launch a total of 40 new routes involving European airports, down from 78 in the previous week. Highlight of the week was the launch on 22 June […]
June 27, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Back in the summer of 2019 the leading carrier between the UK and Turkey was Thomas Cook Airlines. When the airline ceased operating in September of that year, there would have been concerns about the future of the market. And then came the pandemic. So it may come as a surprise, that this summer the […]
May 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
UK leisure airline Jet2.com recently launched its first regular services to Athens, when it began 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) from both Birmingham and Manchester. The airport serving the Greek capital became the airline’s 15th destination in Greece. Jet2.com faces no competition on the route from Birmingham. However, both easyJet (up to 5-weekly) and Aegean […]
April 26, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair has revealed that Funchal will become the airline’s newest base, with two aircraft based at the Portuguese airport from the end of March 2022. The airport, which is located on the island of Madeira, is often referred to as Madeira Airport. Madeira is located around 400 kilometres north of the Canary Islands and 500 […]
November 25, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis