Ryanair expects to carry almost 170 million passengers in its current financial year making it Europe’s biggest airline. According to its own results presentation in January, it operates from over 230 airports (of which 91 are bases) across 36 countries with a fleet of over 520 aircraft. In total the ULCC will be offering service […]
June 7, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Planned airline operations in Europe in the third quarter of 2023 (July to September) suggest that the number of aircraft departures will still be around 8% lower than they were in 2019 Q3. However, the number of available seats is set to be only 2% below pre-pandemic figures. A third metric, ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres) […]
June 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Alicante ended 2022 with 13.20 million passengers, data collected by Air Service One shows, making it Spain’s fifth-busiest airport. Traffic was -12.3% below 2019, marginally less recovered than Spain as a whole (-11.5%). Serving Costa Blanca, Cirium schedules information tells that Alicante – among the country’s biggest cities – to still be down in S23, […]
June 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
This summer can probably be considered the first ‘normal’ summer for air travel since COVID. Across Europe, the region’s (U)LCCs have been dynamic in exploiting perceived opportunities, with Ryanair and Wizz Air in particular celebrating the launch of many new routes. However, as is also the case with these carriers, routes not performing sufficiently well […]
June 2, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Among Central Europe’s four biggest airports (those serving the capitals of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania), Prague Airport has seen the slowest recovery post-pandemic. Bucharest, despite the collapse of Blue Air, has fully recovered, Warsaw WAW is at 95% recovery and Budapest is at around 90%. However, Prague is at just 75% according to […]
June 1, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
It was recently announced that easyJet would finally make Birmingham a base, with three aircraft to be stationed at the UK airport from the start of next summer (S24). The LCC was already planning to operate 11 routes from the airport this summer, including domestic routes to Belfast BFS, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Compared with last […]
May 29, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Historically, (U)LCCs avoided much direct competition with one another, preferring instead to create brand-new routes. To do otherwise, the logic went, could risk excessively low fares and unprofitability, even with their low costs – unless a particular market was worth the fight. This might be to protect a geographic stronghold, such as easyJet launching Ireland […]
May 26, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 […]
May 25, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 […]
May 23, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The United States to Europe is by far the world’s largest long-haul market. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 3,903-weekly one-way flights this August (about 558 daily). They have risen by 1.7% versus the same week in 2019. Some 320 airport pairs and 466 routes are served in this all-important month. Much has […]
May 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 […]
May 18, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Loganair has inaugurated City of Derry and Dundee to London LHR, the next stage in its evolving UK capital network. Loganair – ‘Scotland’s airline’ – has served London since 2017. In this time, it has had scheduled flights to four of six London airports: Stansted, Southend, City, and Heathrow. Only Gatwick and Luton have not […]
May 17, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story