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
Passenger data for July from Aena reveals that Spain’s airports handled just over 27 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 16 airports (all of which handled at least 350,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Leading […]
August 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Kuwait Airways is currently the 12th biggest carrier between Europe and the Middle East as measured by available seats in July 2022. It ranks just behind Wizz Air and Ryanair (which serves Amman and Tel Aviv) but ahead of Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air and Oman Air. While total seat capacity between the two regions is […]
July 26, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, 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 +
Latest passenger figures from Aena show that Spain’s airports handled 17.3 million passengers in October, which was 30% fewer than in October 2019, but almost 290% more than in October 2020. This means that demand in October was at 70% of the level of two years ago. This is a significant improvement on the 52% […]
November 24, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
September passenger data for Spanish airports, published recently by Aena, shows that the country’s airports handled 16.32m passengers last month. That is three times as many as in September 2020 (5.46m), but still 40% fewer than in September 2019 (27.14m). In August, the airports had welcomed 18.01m passengers which was 39% down on the same […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
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 +