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
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
Norwegian on Friday 19 August began a new, 2-weekly service between Trondheim and Manchester. The 1,360-kilometre route will operate on Mondays and Fridays, with flight DY1350 scheduled to depart the Norwegian airport at 18:30 on both days. The service will operate until 14 November and then resume on 26 December. This unusual schedule gives a […]
August 24, 2022 | Latest Route News +
easyJet launched a new domestic route in the UK on Monday 27 June. It is now offering 3-weekly flights on the 480-kilometre route between Manchester and Inverness in Scotland. According to the airline’s website, services operate on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays until 13 October when a Thursday service is (briefly) added, before the service ends […]
July 6, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Gulf Air increased its presence in Europe with the launch of a number of new services recently, including non-stop service between Bahrain and Manchester. This new route to the UK launched on Wednesday 1 June. The 2-weekly service (the other flight is on Sundays) will operate using the airline’s 787-9s. The 5,270-kilometre route is not […]
June 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +
UK leisure airline Jet2.com recently launched its first regular services to Athens, when it began 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) from both Birmingham and Manchester. The airport serving the Greek capital became the airline’s 15th destination in Greece. Jet2.com faces no competition on the route from Birmingham. However, both easyJet (up to 5-weekly) and Aegean […]
April 26, 2022 | Airports, 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 […]
Aer Lingus on Wednesday 1 December began daily service between Manchester in the UK and New York JFK. The 5,380-kilometre route will normally be flown using the Irish carrier’s A321LRs, but the inaugural service of flight EI45 was operated using an A330-300, registration G-EILA. This is the same aircraft that also launched service from Manchester […]
December 2, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Passenger figures for September from the CAA, show that the UK’s airports handled 9.86 million passengers, which was 65% fewer than in September 2019, but over 70% more than in September 2020. This means that demand in September was at 35% of the level of two years ago. This is a significant improvement on the […]
November 29, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Paul Willis, the new Group Aviation Director for MAG, brings 30 years of aviation experience to the role that will hopefully bring the Group’s portfolio of airports – Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands – back to pre-2019 traffic levels by autumn 2022. He brings to the new role substantial consultancy planning experience, which has […]
November 18, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Aer Lingus on 20 October launched its first ever long-haul route from the UK, when it began 3-weekly service (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) on the 6,700-kilometre route between Manchester and Bridgetown in Barbados. This comes just four days after KLM began serving Barbados from Amsterdam. Aer Lingus operated the new route using G-EILA, one of […]
October 25, 2021 | Latest Route News +