With a fairly disastrous Q1 out of the way, Europe’s airlines and airports are now facing up to the fact that Q2 is not going to be much better. The vaccine roll out across Europe has not gone as quickly, or as smoothly, as hoped, with doubts being cast on the safety of at least […]
May 7, 2021 | News & Analysis, Top Story
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 […]
As has been noted before, within Europe only two countries have seen much in the way of traffic recovery since the start of the pandemic; Russia and Turkey. While Turkish Airlines is rightly perceived as one of the world’s great global carriers, and in the first quarter of 2021 looks set to be Europe’s busiest […]
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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 […]
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 […]