Sydney is comfortably the busiest airport in Australia and the wider Oceania, with 42.5 million passengers in 2025. This was the fourth-best year to date, only exceeded by 2017, 2018 and 2019. The lack of recovery was because of the domestic market, which remains notably smaller than before the COVID-19 pandemic.This was influenced by the […]
September 7, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Saudi Arabia’s extraordinarily ambitious Vision 2030 is in full swing. Designed in part to diversify the nation’s economy away from oil, the plan includes welcoming 300+ million air passengers by the end of the decade, of which 100 million will be tourists (including pilgrims). The country’s Air Connectivity Programme helps with funding route development. The […]
August 19, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The market between Europe and mainland China has record capacity. In 2026, Cirium schedule data shows that 8.9 million one-way seats are available (excluding Russia to avoid Asian cities). This volume has exceeded the prior high by 15%. Nearly 1.2 million additional seats have been added in a year. Things have changed in many ways. […]
August 17, 2026 | Airlines, Airports, Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Kuala Lumpur (IATA code KUL) is, of course, by far Malaysia’s busiest airport. In 2025, 63.3 million passengers were welcomed, which was the highest volume to date. The traffic achieved before COVID-19 in 2019 was exceeded for the first time. KUL ended last year as Asia’s 10th-busiest airport. It has jumped one place compared to […]
August 4, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
With almost 61 million passengers in 2025, Hong Kong was Asia’s 12-busiest airport. While that was overwhelmingly the facility’s best year since 2019, throughput remains far lower than it was once. The record year was 2018, when 74.7 million passengers passed through the doors. It was Asia’s fourth-busiest airport. Cirium schedule information shows that Hong […]
July 28, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Air Arabia Group has five units, each with a separate AOC and operating licence. They are the original Sharjah-based airline Air Arabia (IATA code G9), Air Arabia Abu Dhabi (in partnership with Etihad; 3L), Air Arabia Egypt (E5), Air Arabia Maroc (3O) and Pakistan’s Fly Jinnah (9P). Cirium schedule data for the second half […]
July 22, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Some 18 scheduled passenger airlines fly between Bangkok BKK and Europe. Some, such as Aircalin and EVA Air, operate on a fifth freedom basis. Leisure operators and LCCs include Condor, Iberojet, and Norse Atlantic. In 2026, Cirium data shows that they will collectively have 3.8 million one-way seats. With 1.6 million, Thai Airways is, of […]
July 20, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Indira Gandhi International Airport serves Delhi (IATA code: DEL). With 78.1 million passengers in 2025, DEL was comfortably India’s busiest airport last year. Approximately 72% of the traffic was international, while 28% was domestic. Compared to 2024, growth was less than half a percentage point.This was partly because one of its runways was out of […]
July 1, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Nearly 100 scheduled passenger airlines operate between Middle East and Europe in 2026, including Etihad Airways. Despite the ongoing war in Iran, Etihad plans eight million two-way seats from its Abu Dhabi hub to Europe this year. Cirium schedule information shows that capacity is up by half a percentage point compared to the prior record, […]
June 29, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The number of people living in Guangzhou’s metro area is staggering. It is home to an estimated 33 million people, which makes it among the world’s most populated areas. It is in the River Delta, which has over 80 million people. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (IATA code: CAN) is China’s second-busiest airport. 83.6 million passengers […]
June 22, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Thai aviation sector continues to recover from the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic, with 2025 bringing an additional 4.9 million passengers across the country’s airports compared to the previous year, alongside an improvement in passengers per flight. In total, Thailand’s airports handled 145.1 million travellers in 2025, up from 140.6 million a year […]
June 9, 2026 | Airlines, Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis
The first flight of Australia’s Jetstar took place nearly exactly 22 years ago, in May 2004. The LCC, which remains a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas, is now Australia’s second-largest airline by available seats. It also has a relatively small amount of capacity deployed within New Zealand. According to Cirium schedule data, Jetstar has almost […]
April 29, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story