A recently published statistical report for 2020 from UAF (Union des Aéroports Francais) revealed that across all French metropolitan airports (those in mainland France and Corsica) passenger numbers were down 68.4%, from 201.38m in 2019 to 63.67m last year. The number of airports that handled more than one million passengers fell from 17 in 2019 […]
May 17, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The news that Wizz Air was going to announce a major new base at Rome’s main airport might have sent waves of panic through the corridors of Alitalia’s head office. The Italian flag-carrier may have been concerned that the aggressive ULCC might do what it did when it announced its base in Oslo last year, […]
Traffic trends and route development in North America, defined here as encompassing Canada, the US and Mexico. Although the US domestic market recovered relatively slowly last summer, at least compared with some European markets, its recovery has continued through the winter season and into spring. As passenger data from TSA makes clear, US domestic passenger […]
May 7, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America, Top Story
Turin in northern Italy is possibly best known as the home of the car makers Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia (and the stunning former Lingotto factory, the one with the test track on the roof as featured in the classic 60s movie The Italian Job), the Shroud of Turin and Juventus football team. It also […]
Canada’s air travel market has been much slower to recover than those in either Mexico or the US. Passenger data from the country’s eight biggest airports (which account for around 75% of traffic across all Canadian airports) reveals that last summer demand peaked at between 10% and 20% of the demand recorded in 2019. Calgary […]
Recent new route announcements from US carriers have made it clear that underserved destinations along America’s east coast are proving particularly popular with network planners. The ANKER Report has analysed weekly schedule data for the last week of April 2021 to see which airports have seen the biggest increase (in absolute terms rather than percentage […]
While Western Europe continues to see the slower than hoped for rollout of the assorted COVID vaccines, the leading aviation travel markets in Europe are currently in the east of the continent. As previously highlighted, Russia and Turkey, thanks in part to their massive domestic markets, are coping with COVID travel restrictions better than anywhere […]