When do you think regular international scheduled services (other than New Zealand) will resume from Australian airports and what are the key issues that will influence the decision? It’s hard to know when Australia will reopen to other international markets given the uncertainty surrounding COVID cases both in Australia and overseas, coupled with differing vaccine […]
June 15, 2021 | Airports
Simon Nathan, Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy and Route Development at Copenhagen Airport (CPH), updates Air Service One on the airport’s route development strategy and how it is working with its airline partners to help stimulate travel demand. This may sound strange for a Route Development department, but a lot of routes we had been working […]
The Route Hunters welcomes Nacho Bosch to the team! The Route Hunters is a new network planning and strategy consulting firm, whose partners have a combined experience in launching over 300 new routes. The Route Hunters is celebrating its first year of operational success by welcoming Nacho Bosch, former Head of Network Strategy and Planning […]
While getting aviation traffic flows restarted does not appear to have been a major topic of conversation for the leaders of the G7 nations during their meeting in the somewhat unlikely setting of Cornwall in the south-west of the UK, airlines have been showing some signs of recovery during the last four weeks. Not only […]
Malaga has become a seasonal base for easyJet. Although this happened operationally on 1 June, the event was not celebrated until one week later. According to the airline, Malaga has welcomed more easyJet passengers than any other airport that is not already an easyJet base. It joins Barcelona (year-round) and Palma de Mallorca (also summer […]
Ryanair recently resumed service from George Best Belfast City Airport (IATA code BHD) in Northern Ireland after an absence of just over a decade. Between October 2007 and October 2010, the Dublin-based ULCC had offered domestic flights from Belfast BHD to Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow PIK, Liverpool and London STN. Thereafter it ignored the Belfast […]
Wizz Air on 1 June opened another new base, this time in Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily. Two A321s will be stationed at the airport. Wizz Air began serving the airport only last October when it began multiple-daily flights from its new base at Milan MXP, competing directly with easyJet and Ryanair. On […]
Montana became the latest state to welcome Southwest service, when Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (IATA code BZN) welcomed the airline’s first flight from Denver on 27 May, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. On the same day, the airline also began service from its base in Las Vegas. The 845-kilometre Denver route is […]
June 9, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America, Top Story
Eurowings launched not one, not two, but three new routes from Dortmund on Wednesday 2 June (to Alicante, Catania and Malaga), with service to Kavala in Greece beginning the following day, Naples the day after that, and finally Heraklion on Sunday 6 June. An additional Greek route to Rhodes is set to be added in […]
On Thursday 3 June Wizz Air operated its first service to Banja Luka in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The first arrival was from Dortmund in Germany, with further new routes following in a matter of days from Basel in Switzerland (6 June), Stockholm NYO in Sweden (6 June), Malmö in Sweden (7 June) and Eindhoven in […]
Volotea opened a new base on Thursday 3 June in Olbia, on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is the airline’s seventh base in Italy joining Cagliari, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Venice VCE and Verona. Volotea began serving Olbia the day after the carrier launched operations in April 2012, with a flight from Venice VCE. Thanks […]
