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, […]
May 6, 2021 | Europe
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 […]
Compared with many countries across the globe, Mexico’s domestic air travel market recovered relatively quickly in 2020. After being more than 90% down on 2019 demand in April and May of last year, by December passenger numbers were down only 35% compared with the previous year. However, early indications for 2021 suggest that the recovery […]
Canada’s air travel market has been much slower to recover than those in either Mexico or the US. Passenger data from the country’s eight biggest airports (which account for around 75% of traffic across all Canadian airports) reveals that last summer demand peaked at between 10% and 20% of the demand recorded in 2019. Calgary […]
Recent new route announcements from US carriers have made it clear that underserved destinations along America’s east coast are proving particularly popular with network planners. The ANKER Report has analysed weekly schedule data for the last week of April 2021 to see which airports have seen the biggest increase (in absolute terms rather than percentage […]
On 31 March 2021, Alaska Airlines became the 14th member (and second in the US after American Airlines) of the global oneworld alliance. This was a historic day for the airline, which can trace its origins back 89 years and is the only major US carrier based on the west coast, with its corporate headquarters […]
Avelo Airlines (IATA code XP), the first new US airline to announce operations since the start of the pandemic, recently revealed that Hollywood Burbank Airport in northern Los Angeles would be its first base. It also revealed its initial 11 routes, the first of which is set to begin flying on 28 April. The airline’s […]
Canadian ULCC Flair Airlines (IATA code F8) can trace its origins back to 2005, but the airline as it is known today, with its acid green and black branding, came into being in 2019. Its current fleet of just three 189-seat 737-800s are set to be joined in the coming months by 13 737 MAX […]
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 […]
Across much of Europe, domestic air travel is being hailed as a potential saviour for air travel, at least in the short-term. While in large European countries, such as Russia and Turkey, domestic traffic has remained robust in recent months, elsewhere the picture is less clear. In this feature we look at France and the […]
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Turkey’s LCC Pegasus Airlines also doing well: Supporting Turkish Airlines in keeping the Turkish market relatively healthy, is low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines. It reported carrying 1.05 million passengers in January (down 59%) at a load factor of 74.6%. There were 700,000 passengers on domestic flights (down 51%) at a load factor of 82.7%, while international […]