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
SAS has introduced a new long-haul service between Copenhagen and New York JFK following a 32-year hiatus. The airline inaugurated the 6,200-kilometre route on 9 February with the A321neo aircraft. The 5-weekly flights are being maintained each Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. SK919 departs Copenhagen at 18:25 local time, arriving in New York JFK […]
February 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air New Zealand has launched its longest ever route with the introduction on Saturday 17 September of a 3-weekly non-stop service between Auckland and New York JFK. The 14,180-kilometre route will be operated using the airline’s 787-9s. The inaugural service, NZ 2 operated by ZK-NZN, departed Auckland at 16:23 local time. It arrived in New […]
September 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic Airways began long-haul service from Berlin on Wednesday 17 August. Having positioned its 787-9 (registration LN-FNI) in from Oslo the previous afternoon, Norse Atlantic’s inaugural flight from the German capital to New York JFK departed at 20:01 local time according to flightradar24.com. Eight hours and 10 minutes later the flight touched down in […]
August 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
New York is by far the biggest US market from the UK, as confirmed in our recent story looking at the London-Boston market. The market welcomed a new carrier on 12 August when Norse Atlantic Airways began daily service between London LGW and New York JFK using 787-9s, formerly operated by Norwegian. Between 2004 and […]
August 19, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Last Thursday it was announced that JetBlue and Spirit had agreed a merger under which JetBlue will acquire Spirit to create an airline with over 450 aircraft. Cirium schedule data for August 2022 shows that JetBlue is the sixth biggest airline operating from US airports, with Spirit just behind in seventh. As it stands, combining […]
August 2, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Delta has begun daily service on the 1,200-kilometre route between New York JFK and Milwaukee. The inaugural flight from New York was on the evening of Wednesday 15 June, while the first flight from Milwaukee was early the following morning on Thursday 16 June. The service is flown using CRJ700s operated on Delta’s behalf by […]
June 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic Airways (IATA code N0) finally began scheduled services on Tuesday 14 June with the airline’s first commercial service between Oslo OSL and New York JFK. The first flight, N0 1, departed the Norwegian capital almost two hours behind schedule at 21:42 local time (according to flightrader24.com) and arrived in the US just over […]
June 21, 2022 | Latest Route News +
It has only taken 22 years, but JetBlue has finally launched its first service to Canada. On 9 June, the carrier began daily service from New York JFK to Vancouver. The 3,940-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier and will be flown using the airline’s A320s. However, Air Canada and its Star Alliance […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Flair has recently launched a number of new international routes between Canada and the US. This includes a 2-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) service on the 590-kilometre connection between Toronto YYZ and New York JFK, which began on Thursday 7 April. Maybe surprisingly, Flair is the only airline linking these two airports in April. Prior to […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In a double celebration, JetBlue launched its first ever flights to both Kansas City and Milwaukee on Sunday 27 March. Both airports will now be served daily from Boston and New York JFK, the airline’s two busiest airports. JetBlue will use A220-300s on all four routes and faces no direct competition on either of the […]
March 30, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Aer Lingus on Wednesday 1 December began daily service between Manchester in the UK and New York JFK. The 5,380-kilometre route will normally be flown using the Irish carrier’s A321LRs, but the inaugural service of flight EI45 was operated using an A330-300, registration G-EILA. This is the same aircraft that also launched service from Manchester […]
December 2, 2021 | Latest Route News +