Themes of the Week Avelo goes big in Wilmington, DE (ILG). United wants to be THE airline between the U.S. and Australia and New Zealand by adding new service and capacity this winter; Bring on the Bluey partnership! Frontier reduced capacity in September 15% week over week with big reductions in international markets Airlines are […]
April 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located closer to Brussels than to Paris, Lille welcomed 1.78 million passengers in 2022, when it was France’s 10th busiest airport. According to the airport’s own figures, traffic was inevitably up by a strong 52.2% year-on-year. However, it was down by 19.1% versus 2019. As the recovery continues, there is much to shout about. In […]
April 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Romania is Europe’s 19th largest country market in S23. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 8.28 million one-way seats, making it less than half the size of the Poland market. Romania’s S23 capacity is the highest to date and is up from 8.26 million (+0.24%) in S22, the previous record. While the growth […]
April 18, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Themes of the Week We’ve added international changes to/from the U.S. in our summary! Please feel free to send feedback on whether you find this useful and any other suggestions for this newsletter. Alaska and United tweaked their schedules in the fall. Alaska and United both have their earnings calls this week. Do a push […]
April 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The market between the El Salvadorian capital San Salvador and the US has grown considerably. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 1.12 million one-way seats in S23, as shown in the following figure. It has exceeded the one million milestone for the first time. It has surpassed the previous summer record – held […]
SunExpress (IATA code XQ) is a joint venture between Star Alliance partners Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, founded as long ago as 1989. A German-based subsidiary, SunExpress Deutschland (IATA code XG) operated between 2011 and 2020. According to planespotters.net SunExpress currently has a fleet of 50 737s, a mix of 41 -800s and nine MAX 8s. […]
April 13, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, welcomed 5.32 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s own figures. It far outperformed pre-pandemic 2019, with traffic up by a strong +9.3% from 4.87 million, as shown in the figure below. It was partly thanks to securing new entrants Breeze (June 2021), Sun Country (April 2022) […]
April 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Ryanair has celebrated 10 years of serving Nuremberg. It is one of 14 German airports in its network in S23, of which eight are bases. With two stationed aircraft, the airport is Ryanair’s 74th most-served network-wide this summer, according to Cirium schedules information data. Nuremberg is unusual for the ULCC: it is one of only […]
April 11, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Themes of the Week: Airlines are still trimming their summer schedules where needed and to help with the ATC shortage in NYC. Avelo expanded their footprint in FL with the adds of DAB and MLB. Breeze added CRW and another California add for PIT; also made significant changes across its network post-Labor Day. Frontier added new routes […]
Spanish headquartered Volotea operated its first commercial flights on 5 April 2012, from its first base at Venice VCE to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. It just celebrated its 11th birthday and recently announced that it had carried 50 million passengers. It reached 40 million passengers in March 2022, 25 million in July 2019 and 15 […]
April 6, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Bristol ended 2022 with 7.95 million passengers, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Traffic was down by 11.3% versus 2019; Bristol performed much better than UK airports generally (-25.2%). As the following figure shows, it was Bristol’s lowest passenger volume since 2016 (excluding 2020/2021). Nonetheless, it had the best recovery of all UK airports with […]
April 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The UK is India’s largest second-largest long-haul market by passenger traffic, behind the US. In 2019, approximately 3.5 million point-to-point passengers flew to/from the UK. While that reduced to around 3.1 million last year, it still had more than 8,000 passengers daily. Invariably, many travelled indirectly, especially through the Middle East to secondary destinations. They […]