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Ryanair and easyjet

Historically, (U)LCCs avoided much direct competition with one another, preferring instead to create brand-new routes. To do otherwise, the logic went, could risk excessively low fares and unprofitability, even with their low costs – unless a particular market was worth the fight. This might be to protect a geographic stronghold, such as easyJet launching Ireland […]

PLAY at Hamburg

With a metro population of over five million people, Hamburg has non-stop flights to 120 destinations this summer. The airport has various new carriers this year: Iberia Regional (charters for cruise ships), Marabu, PLAY and Volotea. It also sees the return of Air Serbia and Norway’s Widerøe. 11.1 million passengers in 2022 According to Air […]

Themes of the Week ·    Delta adds some new summer markets and trims fall capacity again ·    Southwest adds two new DCA routes for summer ·    JetBlue decreases winter capacity from November onward ·    The JetBlue and American Northeast Alliance has been overruled and must be absolved in the next month ·    MSO Airport Roundtable was amazing and we can’t […]

Algeria has 1.1 million one-way Europe seats this April-June (Q2), according to Cirium data. Primarily revolving around Algerian diaspora, which totals around five million people in France alone, it is smaller than Morocco (3.0 million), Egypt (2.0 million) and Tunisia (1.3 million), each partly influenced by strong inbound tourism. While Algeria-Europe has surpassed Q2 2019 […]

Allegiant Nashville

ULCCs are renowned for fast growth, but that is not presently the case for the USA’s Allegiant. Data supplied by the airline to Cirium for April-September (Q2/Q3) shows that it has 10.48 million available seats, -2.6% versus the same six months in 2022. In contrast, US domestic seats are +9.1%. While Allegiant has far exceeded […]

JFK-Gatwick

The United States to Europe is by far the world’s largest long-haul market. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 3,903-weekly one-way flights this August (about 558 daily). They have risen by 1.7% versus the same week in 2019. Some 320 airport pairs and 466 routes are served in this all-important month. Much has […]

easyJet Belfast Antalya

The renowned resort area and big city of Antalya was Europe’s 10th busiest airport in 2022. The airport’s figures shows that it had 31.2 million passengers, fewer than half a million above Istanbul SAW and surpassing the likes of Rome FCO. Despite the significance of leisure travel during the pandemic, Antalya’s traffic was 12.6% lower […]

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MUC-JER

Air Dolomiti (IATA code EN), a wholly-owned Italian subsidiary of Lufthansa, launched seasonal flights between Munich and Jersey on Saturday 27 May. The airline has taken over the route from its parent company. Previously, Lufthansa maintained the service with Air Dolomiti equipment, but now the flights are being operated exclusively by the Italian subsidiary. The […]

June 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +

HEL-BOO

Finnair has added a new destination in Norway by launching flights between Helsinki and Bodo on Saturday 27 May. The 930-kilometre seasonal service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays by an ATR72 turboprop aircraft operated through its subsidiary Nordic Regional Airlines. There is no competition on the route. What they said Saari […]

NQZ-ESB

FlyArystan, the LCC subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s Air Astana introduced a new 2-weekly service between Astana and Ankara on Tuesday 23 May. The 3,195-kilometre service will be maintained on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the 180-seat A320 aircraft. It becomes FlyArystan’s second destination in Turkey after Istanbul SAW. The LCC competes directly against Turkish Airlines’ lower cost […]

May 29, 2023 | Latest Route News +

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Brussels AIrport

It’s set to be a bright summer for Brussels Airport, which has announced a clutch of new destinations in Europe, Africa and North America. Billund (Denmark), Seville (Spain), Kayseri (Turkey), Monastir (Tunisia), Oran (Algeria) are among the new routes, in addition to Toronto joining the US/Canada portfolio and adding to the airport’s burgeoning network, taking […]

Prague Airport

Prague Airport’s route development and marketing activities supported some exceptional growth in 2022. Passenger numbers soared by more than 145% to 10.7 million – with a further 24% of growth forecast for 2023, when 13.3 million passengers are expected to pass through the airport. The number of routes also rose. In 2022, the aviation business […]