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
Ryanair continues to grow its market share of European air travel. In the second quarter of this year, analysis of Cirium schedules data indicates that it will account for 14.6% of all scheduled seats from European airports. That is an increase of over three percentage points versus 2019 Q2. In this analysis we take a […]
March 3, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, 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 +
Norwegian carrier Flyr began commercial operations from Oslo on 30 June 2021, focussing on domestic services. That remained the case during winter 2021/22, although by then the airline was offering several international routes from the Norwegian capital. However, last summer saw Flyr launch almost 30 international routes, not only from Oslo, but also from Bergen […]
January 26, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, 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 +
Located about 45 kilometres from Milan and well placed for the Italian Lakes and Alps, Milan Bergamo (IATA code BGY) is Italy’s third-busiest airport. With a catchment of ten million people in 90 minutes, it has grown enormously recently, with seat capacity up by 6% this year over 2019 – no mean feat. Multiple new […]
November 3, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
More than six months after the restart of flights from Gatwick’s South Terminal, London Gatwick is experiencing unexpected demand. “It is fair to say the incredible demand for travel we’ve seen over the summer surpassed anything we expected,” explains Stephanie Wear, Gatwick’s VP of Aviation Development. “Since the reopening of the South Terminal, we have […]
October 10, 2022 | Air Service Event News
JetBlue has launched its fourth transatlantic route on Tuesday 20 September with the introduction of daily flights between Boston and London LHR. Flight B6 1620 will depart Boston at 18:17 each evening, arriving in London at 06:30 local time the following morning. The return flight (B6 1621) departs Heathrow at 08:25 and arrives back at […]
September 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
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
Despite all the flights that it has announced it plans to cut in the coming months, British Airways has added a new route from London LHR. On Saturday 2 July it launched a weekly service to Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The 2,500-kilometre service will […]
July 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +