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During a presentation at FITUR 22 in Madrid earlier this week, Vueling confirmed that its summer 2022 capacity will be comparable with that offered in summer 2019, and that it will be operating over 320 routes (100 domestic and 220 international) across 30 countries. The airline also revealed that it would be launching five additional […]
January 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vueling has announced its summer programme from Cardiff, increasing the number of flights to Paris to three per week, following positive news on the easing of travel restrictions between the UK and France. Cardiff Airport celebrated the launch of the Paris route in November 2021, and now welcomes the news that flights will continue to […]
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
Analysis of Eurocontrol data for last week shows a steep drop in European flight operations compared with the previous week. As of 15 January, the seven-day moving average for flights was down 31.3% versus 2019. A week earlier, on 8 January, flights had been down 21.4%. That’s an alarming drop in just one week, reflecting […]
There are several ‘rules’ that have defined how Europe’s low-cost carriers operate. These include high aircraft utilisation and no night-stopping of crews. To satisfy both of these rules that has usually meant trying to operate three return flights (or six sectors) in a day, airport curfews permitting. As a result, you might imagine that the […]
January 14, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Allegiant surprised many industry observers last week by announcing an order with Boeing for brand new aircraft. It will purchase 50 737 MAX aircraft (a mix of 737-7s and 737-8-200s) and has an option to purchase 50 more. This marks an evolution of the airline’s fleet policy which has previously been based around using older, […]
January 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Using the latest published passenger figures from the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) we can compare demand in the most recent week with that from the same period in 2019. Now that we are in 2022, that means comparing data with that from three years ago, rather than two, as was the case up until […]
January 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Last Friday (7 January 2022), Ryanair announced that it would be closing its Frankfurt FRA base from the end of March 2022. It blames the decision on the airport increasing its charges. Ryanair’s first flights from Frankfurt FRA were on 29 March 2017 to Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca. In early September a […]
The following graph shows how many flights some of Europe’s most significant airlines have been operating compared with the same period in 2019. The sudden volatility in the figures for the last week can be partly explained by the fact that comparison in January 2022 is being made with January 2019 (three years previously) while […]
Despite the pandemic, it was a busy year for airline route planners working for airlines in the US. As traffic recovered more quickly (compared with Europe) to reach around 80% of 2019 demand by the end of the year, US carriers in particular used the opportunity to try out many new routes. The ANKER Report […]
January 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
While demand for air travel in Europe in 2021 may have still been down significantly compared with 2019, that did not mean that airline route planners had a quiet year. In fact, quite the opposite, as many airlines were willing to experiment with new routes thanks to having excess capacity. As a result, The ANKER […]
January 6, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Air France/KLM Group has its own in-house LCC, Transavia. Although it has just a single brand, there are actually two separate airlines, the Dutch-based carrier (IATA code HV) and the French-based carrier (IATA code TO). This analysis focuses on the French subsidiary, sometimes also referred to as Transavia France. Launched from Paris ORY in […]
January 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story