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For almost two decades, Fort Lauderdale has been Spirit Airlines’s biggest base of operations, sometimes welcoming more than twice as many flights as its nearest rival. That may be set to change in 2022 now that Spirit has launched its first flights (to nine destinations) from nearby Miami on Wednesday 6 October. As a result, […]
October 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Italy’s ‘new’, government-owned airline, ITA Airways (IATA code AZ, same as its predecessor Alitalia), officially launched operations on Friday 15 October. The airline plans to operate with 52 Airbus aircraft this winter (seven A330-200s, 27 A320s and 18 A319s). The airline’s future fleet plans appear to be 100% focussed on Airbus aircraft, including the A220-series. […]
October 18, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Denver Air Connection (IATA code KG) is a subsidiary of Colorado-based Key Lime Air. It operates a fleet of seven aircraft according to planespotters.net; three 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145s, three 30-seat Dornier Do-328JETs and an Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. It recently replaced Boutique Air in offering 6-weekly service from Ironwood in North Michigan to both Chicago ORD […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
September passenger data for Spanish airports, published recently by Aena, shows that the country’s airports handled 16.32m passengers last month. That is three times as many as in September 2020 (5.46m), but still 40% fewer than in September 2019 (27.14m). In August, the airports had welcomed 18.01m passengers which was 39% down on the same […]
Passenger demand in Canada, which saw a significant recovery in August, appears to have stalled in September. During last month passenger numbers through the country’s eight busiest airports were consistently between 40% and 45% of the figures from 2019, when adjusted on a rolling week basis. Capacity at 58% of 2019 levels in October Analysis […]
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at around 70%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). With another […]
October 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, passenger numbers using Sweden’s airports fell by almost 5%. Near neighbours Denmark and Norway saw zero growth, while Finnish airports registered growth of 4%. Across all of Europe traffic grew by around 3%. In Sweden, one of the reasons cited for the traffic decline was the growing social movement […]
In the last four weeks, we have identified 67 new routes involving European airports. These were started between 11 September and 8 October. A total of 28 airlines had something to celebrate with Wizz Air leading the way with 24 new services, nine of which were from its recently opened base in Naples. In total, […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
This weekend has seen airport and airline network planners and developers finally meet face-to-face for the first time in over 18 months, as the 26th World Routes Development Forum takes place in Milan, Italy. This is a positive sign not just for the aviation industry, but for the whole business community as such conferences in […]
There cannot be many airports in Europe, or indeed the world, that can boast a 2021 route network that is bigger than the one achieved in 2019. A boast that can be said at Montpellier Airport, ideally located in Southern France, halfway between Provence and Catalonia, a region where clearly business and tourism are booming. […]
October 9, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Well, that’s a coincidence, isn’t it? Europe’s two leading ULCCs have both announced on the same day that they will be making Venice Marco Polo Airport a base in 2022. Ryanair announced that it will base three of its new 737 MAX 8s (or 737 8-200 ‘Gamechangers’ as the airline prefers to brand them) at […]
October 7, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Italy welcomed almost 193 million passengers through its airports in 2019, making it Europe’s sixth busiest country for air traffic demand after the UK (300m), Spain (275m), Germany (248m), Turkey (209m) and France (201m). Last year traffic fell by 73% to just under 53m with pre-pandemic traffic in January and February accounting for 44% of […]
October 5, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis