The top seven Turkish airports in 2023 fall into two distinct groups when it comes to their seasonality profile. iGA Istanbul Airport, ISG – Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport and the airport serving the capital, Ankara, all have relatively flat demand profiles across the year. By contrast Fraport TAV Antalya Airport, Dalaman Airport and Bodrum […]
August 2, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis
Italy’s airports reported handling over 21.4m passengers in June 2024 according to Assaeroporti – Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroporti . That’s an increase of 13.6% versus June 2019 and 10.7% more than in June 2023. Among the top 20 busiest airports, nine have grown by more than 20% in the last five years while only four […]
August 1, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis
Today we take a look at the average sector length of Europe’s biggest (U)LCCs. AIR SERVICE ONE analysis of Cirium schedules data for August 2023 and August 2024 shows that Jet2.com and Jet2holidays and SunExpress have the longest average flights. This is not surprising as both are primarily ‘holiday’ airlines taking northern Europeans to southern […]
July 31, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis
Vueling Airlines is offering 4% fewer flights in July 2024 than it did in July 2019 according to AIR SERVICE ONE analysis of Cirium schedules data. However, among its top 21 airports it has increased flights by more than 10% at 12 of them. Among non-Spanish airports London Gatwick, Paris ORY and Schiphol | Route […]
July 30, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis
Southwest Airlines has increased monthly flights by 7.2% between July 2019 and July 2024 according to AIR SERVICE ONE analysis of Cirium schedules data. Among its top 20 states it has grown in 11 and shrunk in nine. Hawaii and Colorado have seen the biggest percentage increased with Hawaii flights having increased fourfold. Southwest’s market […]
July 29, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis
Unlike other northern European countries which are still struggling to get back to 2019 levels of traffic (e.g. Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and even UK) Poland has had no such problem. Passenger numbers from its airports in June show that demand is around 22% higher than pre-pandemic. Nine of its top 11 airports are reporting […]
July 26, 2024 | Bitesize Analysis