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 […]

Ryanair Alicante route

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, […]

ASO Network Churn

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]