Ryanair began serving Sweden as long ago as June 1997, when it started operations from London STN to Stockholm NYO. The facility lies around 100 kilometres south-west of Stockholm. In April 2003 it made Skavsta a base and launched six additional routes to Aarhus, Glasgow PIK, Hamburg LBC, Oslo TRF, Paris BVA and Tampere. Since […]
May 17, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Well here we are in mid-May and the summer season is well and truly under way. Except it isn’t, at least not as far as Europe’s airlines and airports are concerned. The latest Eurocontrol data, which monitors flights through European airspace, shows that flights (and that includes those of cargo airlines like DHL) are still […]
When The ANKER Report launched in September 2017 I made the decision to make my content available purely as a free, downloadable pdf that could be easily printed off or viewed on-line. Although it would have been nice to have all the stories available as separate stories on my website (www.anker-report.com), I did not have […]
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, […]
For many years now, the Middle East big three (MEB3) carriers (Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways) have connected many cities in Europe with their home hubs (of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha respectively), providing a convenient way to travel to Asia, Australasia and Africa. With virtually no domestic markets to support them, all three […]
Analysis of the latest schedule data provided by airlines to Cirium Data and Analytics confirms that Turkish Airlines and the Aeroflot Group continue to lead the way with regard to passenger capacity in Europe. The Turkish flag-carrier is offering more than twice the capacity of third-ranked Ryanair. Combining capacity for Aeroflot and its low-cost subsidiary […]
In 2019, according to official figures from ONDA, 79% of international traffic at Moroccan airports was on routes to/from Europe, representing 17.46m passengers. European traffic had grown in 2019 by an impressive 10.8% and had reached a new, all-time high. The top five international routes in 2019 were: Casablanca – Paris ORY (691,043 passengers) Casablanca […]
Following the arrival of Wizz Air into the Norwegian domestic market earlier this year, newcomer Flyr (IATA code FS) has announced its first route, between Oslo’s main airport and Tromsø. Service is set to start on 30 June, though seats will not go on sale until the end of May. Flyr will join established local […]
Croatia is the EU’s most recent member, joining on 1 July 2013. However, it still uses it own currency, the Kuna, rather than the Euro, at least for now. Traffic across the country’s five main airports has risen from just under three million in 2003 to just over 11 million in 2019. Apart from 2009, […]
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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 […]
According to Russian government statistics, S7 Airlines was once again Russia’s leading airline in January, transporting 1.19 million passengers, down 13% compared with January 2020. The other airlines in the top five were Aeroflot (1.04 million passengers, down 60%), Pobeda (928k passengers, same as in 2020), Ural Airlines (406k passengers, down 41%) and Rossiya Airlines […]
In 2019, the UK ranked third among Ryanair’s country markets for annual seats, offering 26.6 million departing seats, just behind Spain (27.7m) and Italy (28.7m). However, if we look at just international seat capacity then the UK (with 25.7m) jumps well ahead of Spain (20.7m) and Italy (16.3m), highlighting Ryanair’s much greater presence in the […]