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
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
The winter period is always difficult for Europe’s airlines. Profits are hard to come by and this winter the industry faces the additional challenges of Russia’s war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and concerns about a possible recession. This week we take a closer look at which routes western Europe’s major legacy carriers have added […]
December 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
From Europe there are non-stop flights to many other continents, such as Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. While many intercontinental flights would be considered long-haul, some can be really short, such as from Spain to Morocco. Analysis of the leading airlines operating intercontinental flights from Europe (as measured by ASKs – Available […]
November 4, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The recent announcement by the Dutch government that it plans to limit Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s annual aircraft movements to 440,000 has come as a shock to just about everyone, not least the airport itself. The government is justifying this decision on environmental (noise and pollution) grounds, though negotiations involving the airport are expected to continue […]
July 7, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
KLM has finally added Austin in Texas to its US network from its base at Amsterdam. This route was originally announced in 2019 with flights set to start in 2020. However, due to the pandemic the introduction of the service was delayed until Monday 28 March. The inaugural flight (KL 667) departed the Dutch hub […]
March 31, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Last week saw little change in the rate of airline recovery based on analysis of Eurocontrol data. The 7-day average recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) as of Saturday 19 March, was 74.0%, up just 0.1 percentage point from the previous week’s figure of 73.9%. […]
March 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January and February this year shows that among western Europe’s six major flag-carriers there was considerable variation in terms of how much seat capacity they operated compared with the same period in 2019. Iberia was at around 85%, KLM and Air France were between 70% and 80%, while British […]
March 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
For the fifth week in a row, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) improved during the last seven days. The 7-day average, as of Saturday 5 March, was 74.9%, up a full 3.3 percentage points from the previous […]
March 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the third week in a row, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) improved during the last seven days. The 7-day average, as of Saturday 19 February, was 70.3%, up only 0.6 percentage points from the previous week. […]
February 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The eyes of the world were (briefly) on Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport this week, as world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic returned home to Serbia after being deported from Australia, where he had been hoping to win the Australian Open for a tenth time. The airport serving the Serbian capital, which is operated by […]
January 19, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Eurocontrol data for the first week of December shows that flights are still down 25% compared with the same period in 2019. The best day this year was 30 October when the 7-day moving average figure showed flights were down 18.8%. However, this is a slightly false view as the timing of the […]
December 6, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story