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 […]
Sun Country Airlines launched its first route to Indianapolis on 28 May, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend and the legendary Indy 500 race. A 2-weekly service (Mondays and Fridays) from Minneapolis/St. Paul was the airline’s inaugural route, operated by the airline’s 737-800s. The route is already served up to 6-daily by Delta. […]
June 7, 2021 | Airports, North America, Top Story
Volotea opened a new base in the French city of Lyon on Wednesday 2 June. It is the airline’s sixth base in the country after Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Strasbourg and Toulouse. A single A319 will be based at the airport. Volotea first began serving Lyon in April 2018 and had been planning to make the […]
Analysis of passenger figures for April 2021 for over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that the top five airports are all in either Istanbul or Moscow. Istanbul’s new mega-airport leads the way with just over two million passengers, which is down 61% on the same period in 2019. Then come all three major airports serving […]
On Tuesday 1 June, Ryanair resumed operations at Treviso Airport (TSF) for the first time since the start of the pandemic, during which time the airport has been kept shut while all operations in the Venice area were concentrated at Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE). Ryanair had announced last December that it would finally be […]
