Analysis of airport passenger data across all the Baltic and Nordic nations (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) reveals which have been the most (and least) successful at getting air traffic back to pre-pandemic levels. For much of the pandemic Norway was leading the way with its extensive domestic network and where […]
September 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week, on 1 September 2022, Norwegian celebrated its 20th anniversary as a scheduled airline. In those 20 years it has carried over 300 million passengers, developed and abandoned a long-haul, low-cost network from various European airports, set up operations in Argentina and come close to collapse as a result of COVID. However, latest traffic […]
September 9, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Romanian carrier Blue Air suspended operations starting on Wednesday 7 September after its bank accounts were frozen by the Romanian government. The airline says it will resume service on Monday 12 September and flights are still bookable on its website from that day forward. The airline launched scheduled services on 13 December 2004 with flights […]
September 8, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Passenger data for July from Assaeroporti reveals that Italy’s airports handled 18.8 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 20 airports (all of which handled at least 250,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Brindisi and Turin […]
Mexico City’s newest airport, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA code NLU), opened earlier this year on 21 March. Initially, Mexico’s three main airlines (Aeromexico, Vivaaerobus and Volaris) each operated daily service to two domestic destinations, with no route overlap. There was also a weekly service to Caracas with Conviasa, the airport’s first international route. Aeromexico […]
September 7, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
As in Europe, the last four weeks have been relatively quiet for new route launches in North America. Basically, if you didn’t introduce your new route before the start of the peak summer travel period, then why would you start one several weeks later. You have to have a pretty good reason to launch a […]
It has been a quiet few weeks for airline route launches across Europe. Between Sunday 7 August and Saturday 3 September, we have identified just 11 new airline services. Of these six were from Norse Atlantic Airways with its fleet of 787-9s. The new routes included the airline’s first US flights from London LGW (to […]
September 5, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
After revealing which airports in Europe were seeing the slowest recovery in traffic (using passenger data for June 2022 and June 2019), this week we conduct a similar analysis on airports in the US. However, this time airline capacity data provided by Cirium is used for August 2022 and August 2019. As airlines are still […]
September 2, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Wizz Air recently announced that it would be launching 20 new routes between Europe and Saudi Arabia between December and next July. Of these, 10 will serve Riyadh, seven will serve Jeddah and three will serve Dammam. A total of 11 European airports will see a Wizz Air service to Saudi Arabia, with Budapest and […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
Passenger data for July from Aena reveals that Spain’s airports handled just over 27 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 16 airports (all of which handled at least 350,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Leading […]
August 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]