TUI welcomed 11.30 million passengers last year with an 89% load factor, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While traffic was 4% lower than in 2019, it was still its third best year since 2008. To put the recovery into context, TUI had 1.73 million passengers last August, just 293,000 fewer than the whole […]
March 1, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Sudan’s largest carrier Badr Airlines launched 2-weekly flights between Khartoum and London LGW on 24 February. The 4,910-kilometre route operates Tuesdays and Fridays via Istanbul IST on the outbound and via Cairo on the inbound service. Badr Airlines is using a wet-leased B737-800 from Air Explore on the route, as the Sudanese carrier is banned […]
February 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
British Airways (BA) has been London LGW’s second biggest short-haul operator since 2008, when it was overtaken by primary competitor easyJet. According to Cirium schedules information data, BA had 1.3 million one-way, short-haul seats across Europe and North Africa from Gatwick in 2022, having only resumed short-haul operations from the airport at the start of […]
January 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Belfast BHD is set to receive flights from Germany for the first time. On 23 April 2023, Lufthansa CityLine will begin Frankfurt, with the 4-weekly, 1,110-kilometre service using the 100-seat Embraer E190. It will provide an additional option to reach the wider world from Northern Ireland, will be the country’s sole German route following Ryanair’s […]
December 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Europe to Vietnam had 2.8 million two-way passengers in pre-coronavirus 2019. Germany, Russia, France, the UK and the Netherlands were the largest markets. Three-quarters flew with sixth-freedom operators, especially Emirates, Qatar Airways, Aeroflot, Turkish Airlines and Thai Airways. Despite strong non-stop capacity growth until the pandemic, it was – and remains – conspicuously underserved by […]
December 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways (IATA code QH) has shifted its operations in London from Heathrow to Gatwick. On 29 October the carrier began flying weekly from Hanoi to London’s second busiest airport. The route will be flown using the airline’s 787-9s with flights departing Hanoi late on Saturdays, arriving in the UK around 13 hours later […]
November 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In 2019, Boston ranked as the fourth biggest US travel destination from London based on scheduled, non-stop seat capacity, as collated by Cirium. It was only beaten by New York JFK, Los Angeles and Chicago ORD. However, if measured by ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres), Boston falls to sixth behind San Francisco and Miami. At around […]
August 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Air Transat has become the first carrier in at least 20 years to offer non-stop service between Québec City and London, with the launch of a weekly service on 11 May. Flights depart the Canadian city every Wednesday (at 23:55 local time) until 28 September using the airline’s new 199-seat A321neos. Departures from Gatwick Airport […]
May 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Among Europe’s biggest airlines, none is planning to grow faster this summer than Wizz Air. Based on analysis of the latest schedule data submitted to Cirium, the ULCC is expecting to deliver between 35% and 40% more seat capacity across its network in 2022 Q2 than it did in 2019 Q2. Recent data from Eurocontrol […]
April 22, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Latest schedule data for this summer (April to October) indicates that Ryanair is planning to operate around 20% more flights than it did in the same period in 2019. Europe’s second biggest (U)LCC, easyJet, has not quite recovered to the same extent with flights still set to be down 6% and seats around 4% compared […]
The first day of February marked the 20th anniversary of the start of easyJet opening a base at London LGW. Over the years Gatwick not only became the airline’s biggest base, but it also usurped British Airways as the biggest carrier at the airport. Prior to Gatwick becoming a base on 1 February 2002, easyJet […]
February 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Well that was quick. Having announced on 22 December that it acquired enough slots from Norwegian to justify basing four additional A321neos at Gatwick next summer, the following day Wizz Air announced the 14 new routes that it would be adding from the start of the summer season. Details of the new routes, launch dates, […]
December 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story