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Amsterdam was easyJet’s first international destination when it began service from London LTN in late April 1996, beating Nice and Barcelona by a few weeks. At that time the carrier had only been operating from Luton for just over five months. However, it took another 19 years before easyJet made the Dutch hub a base. […]
September 10, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Luxembourg is a small country in the heart of Europe which shares a border with Belgium, France and Germany. Covering an area of 2,600 km2 it is smaller than Hong Kong and every US state, and can easily be driven around in less than a day. However, with a population of over 600,000 and a […]
September 9, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Passenger statistics collected for over 330 airports across Europe show that Istanbul’s new airport is once again Europe’s busiest airport in July, a position it last held in April. In May, Moscow DME was the busiest airport, while its neighbour Moscow SVO took the top spot in June. The two busiest Moscow airports have now […]
Analysis of Eurocontrol data for the fourth week of August shows only modest changes in terms of the rate of recovery compared with the previous week. Overall, the number of aircraft movements is at 70.6% of the 2019 figure, up from 70.0% the previous week and virtually the same as in the first two weeks […]
Flight data for Europe’s biggest airlines for the third week of August shows only modest changes in terms of the rate of recovery compared with the previous week. Overall, the number of aircraft movements is at 70.0% of the 2019 figure, down from 70.5% in each of the two previous weeks. However, among our basket […]
August 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
July passenger data collected for airports across the Nordic and Baltic nations shows that Copenhagen was the region’s busiest airport with 1.23 million passengers, ahead of Oslo with 1.02 million passengers. Stockholm’s main airport was in third place with 880,000 passengers. Each of these three capital city airports has now recovered between 35% and 40% […]
August 23, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The latest passenger figures for airports in July show that in western Europe Paris CDG was the busiest airport with 3.05 million passengers, just edging out Amsterdam which reported welcoming 3.03 million passengers. Frankfurt, which had been busier than both Paris CDG and Amsterdam in June, handled 2.85 million passengers. The next three busiest airports […]
August 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Analysis of Eurocontrol flight data for the second week of August, shows that there has been no overall improvement in flight recovery compared with the previous week. The number of aircraft movements has remained stable at 70.5% of the 2019 figure for a second week in a row. Does this suggest that this is as […]
Analysis of the latest Eurocontrol movement data shows that during the first week of August Europe’s largest airlines showed some modest improvements compared with the previous week in terms or flight recovery compared with 2019. Ten of the 12 airlines in the analysis improved their recovery percentage compared with the previous week, with only Norwegian […]
August 11, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
In 2018, Norwegian carried 37.3 million passengers (with a load factor of 86%), making it one of Europe’s biggest airlines. However, the airline was struggling financially, having grown rapidly and also taken on the challenge of offering low-cost, long-haul flights, primarily to the US, from various countries in Europe. Even before the pandemic hit, the […]
The Naples urban area is apparently the seventh largest in Europe and yet in 2000 its airport handled just four million passengers. By 2015 this had increased to just over six million. However, during the next four years passenger numbers increased by a massive 76% and reached almost 11 million in 2019, making it one […]
August 5, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of the latest Eurocontrol movement data shows that during the last week Europe’s largest airlines showed, on the whole, only modest improvements compared with the previous week. In fact, of the 12 airlines in our main sample, six showed an improvement in their recovery rate (versus 2019) while six showed a small decline. The […]