Situated about 100 kilometres south of Denver, Colorado Springs welcomed over 2.1 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s statistics. Its best year since 2001, traffic exceeded 2019 figures by 27%. It is primarily due to one key development: the arrival of Southwest. The airline, which launched Colorado Springs almost two years ago in […]
January 31, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Based in Verona, Air Dolomiti (IATA code EN) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. It currently has a fleet of 17 active aircraft comprising 15 122-seat E195s and two 100-seat E190s (according to planespotters.net). The two E190s have only just joined the fleet having previously been operated by Lufthansa CityLine for Lufthansa Regional. Air Dolomiti’s […]
Flybe has been grounded. Again. The airline, which returned to the air last April, after having collapsed in early 2020, operated its last flights on Friday 27 January. According to our analysis of Cirium schedule data, the carrier was operating 17 routes involving 12 airports (10 in the UK plus Amsterdam and Geneva) at the […]
January 29, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of the fundamental building blocks for a successful low-cost carrier over the years has been high utilisation of the aircraft and avoiding crews night-stopping away from their home base. Typically, this has meant that airlines have tried to achieve at least three return flights per day (or six sectors), sometimes even four return flights […]
January 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
An airline undergoing much transformation, SAS is Europe’s eighth largest operator by flights in 1H 2023, based on Cirium schedules information. It is the leading airline serving Sweden and Denmark but is inevitably second to mainly domestic operator Widerøe in Norway. This regional carrier is synonymous with Dash 8s and short, multi-stop domestic services in […]
Norwegian carrier Flyr began commercial operations from Oslo on 30 June 2021, focussing on domestic services. That remained the case during winter 2021/22, although by then the airline was offering several international routes from the Norwegian capital. However, last summer saw Flyr launch almost 30 international routes, not only from Oslo, but also from Bergen […]
January 26, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Canada’s third-largest carrier by seats, Flair Airlines’ first scheduled flight took off in September 2017. In 1H 2023, Flair has just about three million seats, according to Cirium schedules information data. It uses 27 Boeing 737s, 24 of which are MAX 8s. Some 2.3 million (77%) of its capacity is deployed domestically. Despite the entry […]
Turkey’s capital and the country’s second-biggest city, Ankara, saw its airport welcome 8.6 million passengers in 2022, based on statistics from airport operator TAV. That was just 62% of its 2019 traffic. The airport is dominated by AnadoluJet, a unit that is supposedly to be spun off from Turkish Airlines to operate independently. According to […]
Scheduled passenger operations is just one revenue stream for unashamedly leisure-focused Sun Country, alongside large numbers of charter flights and freight services for Amazon. According to Cirium schedules information data, Sun Country’s departing seats in Q1 2023 total 1.1 million. That is down by 4% versus Q1 2022, but higher than the first three months […]
January 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
According to figures published by Aena, Spain’s airports welcomed almost 244 million passengers in 2022. That is only 12% fewer than the 275 million achieved in 2019. More impressively, in the last quarter of 2022, passenger numbers were down just 3% compared with the same period three years earlier. While traffic for the whole of […]
Germany’s airports handled just over 12.6 million passengers in November 2022 according to ADV statistics published recently. While this is 42% more than in November 2021, it is 27.8% fewer than in November 2019. The traffic recovery rate of 72.2% does not compare favourably with that of the other major European air travel markets. Spain […]
January 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair serves 21 airports in the UK. Of these, Newcastle was its 11th busiest last year, based on Cirium schedules information data. It had 487,000 one-way seats, a 37% rise versus 2019 thanks to its Newcastle base opening in S22. It meant it had a 19% share of the airport’s capacity. Only Jet2.com was bigger. […]
January 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis