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
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cuba has welcomed its latest route from Europe. On 11 November, Spain’s charter carrier Iberojet introduced a weekly operation from Madrid to Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second city. It joins Cubana on the 7,120-kilometre route. Six Cuban airports have European flights Six airports in Cuba have flights to Europe this winter, down from eight […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Iberojet (IATA code E9) has launched a new weekly service between Madrid and San Jose del Cabo in Mexico on 18 July. The 9,640-kilometre service will be flown on Mondays for nine weeks using the airline’s A350-900s. No other carrier serves this route. Iberojet is the new brand name for Evelop Airlines after it merged […]
July 21, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair added not one, not two, but three new routes from its Danish base in Billund on Monday 28 March. Bari in Italy, Madrid in Spain and Trapani in Sicily (Italy) will now all be served 2-weekly (Mondays and Fridays) using the airline’s 737-800 fleet. None of the routes are already served. The previous day […]
April 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Iberia has launched a 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) between Madrid and Andorra–La Seu d’Urgell (IATA code LEU), a small airport located in Spain, close to Andorra in the eastern Pyrenees. Air Nostrum operates the service on behalf of Iberia using ATR 72-600s. The Principality of Andorra is the sixth smallest state in Europe covering […]
December 30, 2021 | Latest Route News +
On 22 September, World2fly began weekly service (Wednesdays) on the 7,475-kilometre route between Madrid and Havana. The inaugural service (flight number WFL 1505 operated by an Airbus A350-900, registration EC-NOI) departed Madrid at 14:56 and touched down in Havana eight hours and 31 minutes later at 17:27 local time. The return flight (WFL 1506) departed […]
September 28, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Iberia selected Friday 2 July as the launch day for its new long-haul service from Madrid to Malé in the Maldives. The 8,620-kilometre route will be served 3-weekly, with flights departing the Spanish capital on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The inaugural service (flight IB 6791 operated by the airline’s Airbus A330-300 registration EC-LYF) departed Madrid […]
July 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Passenger statistics collected by The ANKER Report, covering over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that Moscow Domodedovo was Europe’s busiest airport in May, handling just over 2.2 million passengers, down just 11% compared with May 2019. It edged out its city rival Moscow Sheremetyevo which welcomed just under 2.2 million travellers, which was 47% fewer […]