PLAY at Hamburg

With a metro population of over five million people, Hamburg has non-stop flights to 120 destinations this summer. The airport has various new carriers this year: Iberia Regional (charters for cruise ships), Marabu, PLAY and Volotea. It also sees the return of Air Serbia and Norway’s Widerøe. 11.1 million passengers in 2022 According to Air […]

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 […]

Algeria has 1.1 million one-way Europe seats this April-June (Q2), according to Cirium data. Primarily revolving around Algerian diaspora, which totals around five million people in France alone, it is smaller than Morocco (3.0 million), Egypt (2.0 million) and Tunisia (1.3 million), each partly influenced by strong inbound tourism. While Algeria-Europe has surpassed Q2 2019 […]

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 […]

Turkish Airlines

Palermo is among the better recovered of Italy’s busier airports. According to the airport’s figures, it welcomed 7.12 million passengers in 2022, up by 1.4% versus 2019. In the first quarter of 2023, it had 1.31 million, an increase of 5.3% versus the same three months in the pre-pandemic 2019. July-September 2023 seats are up […]

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Gothenburg is Sweden’s second most populous city and has about 1.1 million people in its metro area. According to Cirium information, Gothenburg Landvetter has 900,000 one-way seats this July-September (Q3), as shown below. With capacity about a fifth below Q3 2019 and, surprisingly, less than 10% above 2022, Gothenburg is the fifth-largest airport in Sweden, […]

Newcastle 1 million

Serving England’s Northeast, Newcastle welcomed its one millionth passenger of the year in early May. The airport has seen multiple new carriers and other developments in the past two years. Lufthansa arrived in July 2021, while Ryanair opened a two aircraft base in March 2022. Corendon started in April 2022, while the second iteration of […]

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Analysis of the latest Cirium airline schedule data indicates that capacity between Europe and all regions outside of Europe is down just 2% in 2023 Q2 versus 2019 Q2. However, this apparent stability hides a number of significant changes at a country, airline and airport level. The US is still by far the biggest country […]

Washington IAD celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. Serving the District of Columbia, Virginia and more, Dulles is renowned for being a United hub and an important Star Alliance airport. According to Dulles’ own statistics, it welcomed 21.3 passengers in 2022, of which international traffic accounted for more than a third (34.7%). Despite the pandemic, […]