Ryanair expects to carry almost 170 million passengers in its current financial year making it Europe’s biggest airline. According to its own results presentation in January, it operates from over 230 airports (of which 91 are bases) across 36 countries with a fleet of over 520 aircraft. In total the ULCC will be offering service […]
June 7, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Planned airline operations in Europe in the third quarter of 2023 (July to September) suggest that the number of aircraft departures will still be around 8% lower than they were in 2019 Q3. However, the number of available seats is set to be only 2% below pre-pandemic figures. A third metric, ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres) […]
June 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Themes of the Week Delta reduced fall capacity 1% week over week Delta makes sure Notre Dame alumni in NYC can get to their home games Avelo removed one ILG market before it will even start BermudAir filed their new Bermuda (BDA) flights to three U.S. destinations Virgin Atlantic announced Manchester, UK (MAN) flights to LAS […]
June 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Alicante ended 2022 with 13.20 million passengers, data collected by Air Service One shows, making it Spain’s fifth-busiest airport. Traffic was -12.3% below 2019, marginally less recovered than Spain as a whole (-11.5%). Serving Costa Blanca, Cirium schedules information tells that Alicante – among the country’s biggest cities – to still be down in S23, […]
This summer can probably be considered the first ‘normal’ summer for air travel since COVID. Across Europe, the region’s (U)LCCs have been dynamic in exploiting perceived opportunities, with Ryanair and Wizz Air in particular celebrating the launch of many new routes. However, as is also the case with these carriers, routes not performing sufficiently well […]
June 2, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Themes of the Week United gives DEN more nonstop options this fall American adds special NCAA Football flights for diehard fans Sun Country adds two routes and extends their schedule Air Canada reduces U.S. winter capacity up to 12% week over week Spirit finalizes August capacity with a 12% week over week reduction WestJet new […]
May 30, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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 […]
May 26, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 […]
May 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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 […]
May 22, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 […]
May 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 […]
May 18, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Loganair has inaugurated City of Derry and Dundee to London LHR, the next stage in its evolving UK capital network. Loganair – ‘Scotland’s airline’ – has served London since 2017. In this time, it has had scheduled flights to four of six London airports: Stansted, Southend, City, and Heathrow. Only Gatwick and Luton have not […]
May 17, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story