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Vueling is Europe’s fourth biggest (U)LCC, behind Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air, but around 50% larger than Eurowings, Norwegian and Transavia who are in a tight battle for fifth place. However, it seems to get very little media coverage compared to its rivals. One of the reasons for this may be that while many of […]
November 25, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cuba has welcomed its latest route from Europe. On 11 November, Spain’s charter carrier Iberojet introduced a weekly operation from Madrid to Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second city. It joins Cubana on the 7,120-kilometre route. Six Cuban airports have European flights Six airports in Cuba have flights to Europe this winter, down from eight […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Air Service One has collected October passenger figures for almost 250 airports across Europe, including the vast majority of major airports. These can be found in our free to download EATS (European Airport Traffic Statistics) file on the Air Service One homepage. We have identified all major airports reporting over one million passengers in October […]
Korean Air recently added its first new European route since the start of the pandemic when it began 2-weekly service between Seoul ICN and Budapest in Hungary on 3 October. The 8,160-kilometre route is already served 2-weekly by LOT Polish Airlines. Analysis of the SkyTeam carrier’s monthly capacity since January 2019 to Europe and North […]
November 21, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis
International long-haul traffic was hit especially hard by the pandemic, with many Asian countries in particular imposing extremely severe restrictions on foreign visitors. Some of these markets are still only just opening up to international passenger flights. For many European travellers, a popular way of reaching many key Asian markets was to use one of […]
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Morocco has more European seats than any other African nation, heavily influenced by open skies with the EU, (U)LCC growth, the geographic proximity, Moroccan diaspora and growing tourism. If all country-to-continent markets are analysed, Morocco-Europe ranks 54th this winter, based on Cirium schedules information data. It has nearly as many winter seats as the UK […]
Allegiant has flights to 125 airports in W22. It added Akron/Canton in March, building on eight that materialised in 2021: Orange County and Spokane in February, Portland (Oregon) in April, Key West in June, Minneapolis and Phoenix Sky Harbor in October and Orlando MLB and Washington IAD in November. Inevitably, not everything has gone smoothly. […]
November 16, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Austrian Airlines has added seven routes to next summer’s schedule. Three are resumptions: Billund (last served in March 2017), Palermo (October 2019), Vilnius (March 2020), while four are genuinely new routes: Marseille, Porto, Tromsø (new for summer) and Tivat. When added to Austrian’s existing network, it will serve 100 European destinations from its Vienna hub […]
This winter, 49 African countries have non-stop or one-stop flights to European airports, based on Cirium schedules data information. When non-sub-Saharan states are removed, South Africa has more Europe capacity than any other. In seventh place is Senegal, with 651,000 two-way Europe seats, more than Nigeria. Senegal’s European capacity has risen by 10% versus W19, […]
The inaugural easyJet flight on 10 November 1995 was between London LTN and Glasgow GLA in Scotland. Five days later it launched service between Luton and Edinburgh. This highlights the importance of Scotland to easyJet in its early days. Since then both Glasgow GLA and Edinburgh have become bases for the LCC. According to analysis […]
November 15, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Europe’s air travel market continues to face numerous challenges as we head into the W22/23 season, which began at the end of October and continues through to the end of March. Cost of living increases, energy supply concerns driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, staff shortages, increasing Covid cases and environmental pressures are just some […]
November 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story