Serving England’s Northeast, Newcastle welcomed its one millionth passenger of the year in early May. The airport has seen multiple new carriers and other developments in the past two years. Lufthansa arrived in July 2021, while Ryanair opened a two aircraft base in March 2022. Corendon started in April 2022, while the second iteration of […]
May 9, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
The all-important Q3 (July-September) period is fast approaching. Analysis of capacity data provided by airlines to Cirium shows that Europe has 393.6 million available seats. That is 96.2% of Q3 2019, mainly down because of the enormous intra-Europe market. While small, the exit of Flybe and Flyr in early 2023 did not help. Yet four […]
May 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
North America’s seat capacity in Q3 (July-September) 2023 is up by 3.9% versus Q3 2019, according to data supplied by airlines to Cirium. This makes North America by far the best recovered of all world regions, both in percentage and absolute terms. A considerable 13.7 million seats have been added, cementing its position as the […]
Themes of the Week Airlines continue to trim late summer and early fall capacity with Delta and JetBlue taking the biggest cuts this week. NY is getting a nonstop to the Faroe Islands. Delta is adding two new routes and getting in on the Epic conference action in MSN; a case study in getting airlines to add […]
Austria’s second most populous city, Graz is located almost the same distance to Zagreb and Ljubljana as it is to Vienna. According to Graz’s own figures, it had almost 562,000 passengers in 2022, nearly half (54.1%) of 2019. It was, and remains, Austria’s fourth-busiest airport. Its slow recovery is not hard to understand. Among other […]
Analysis of the latest Cirium airline schedule data indicates that capacity between Europe and all regions outside of Europe is down just 2% in 2023 Q2 versus 2019 Q2. However, this apparent stability hides a number of significant changes at a country, airline and airport level. The US is still by far the biggest country […]
May 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Washington IAD celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. Serving the District of Columbia, Virginia and more, Dulles is renowned for being a United hub and an important Star Alliance airport. According to Dulles’ own statistics, it welcomed 21.3 passengers in 2022, of which international traffic accounted for more than a third (34.7%). Despite the pandemic, […]
May 4, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
With the all-important Q3 (July-September) period fast approaching, Ryanair – Europe’s largest airline – has planned 56.7 million seats. According to Cirium schedules information data, its network-wide capacity has increased from 44.5 million in Q3 2019 – up by more than a quarter (+27.4%). The following figure shows how capacity has changed at Ryanair’s top […]
May 3, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Gateway to world-renowned Côte d’Azur, France’s top tourist destination after Paris, Nice welcomed 12.12 million passengers in 2022. It was country’s third busiest airport, based on data collected by Air Service One. The airport’s traffic is shown below. France’s fifth most populous city, Nice’s passenger volume was 83.7% of that in 2019, according to the […]
May 2, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Themes of the Week Avelo goes back to Bozeman and adds RDM to STS, giving aha! vibes Silver is adding a North Carolina market Our next Airport Roundtable is two weeks away in MSO; 8 airlines and great opportunities to connect Allegiant and Frontier have their earnings calls this Wednesday Capacity Update To see a detailed list […]
May 1, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
While not the capital of Delaware, the USA’s second-smallest state by geographic area, Wilmington is the largest city. Located fewer than 34 kilometres from Philadelphia’s airport, it is Wilmington’s location which has historically hindered the airport’s development. But now it has a record number of routes and seats. Avelo launched in February 2023 Wilmington is […]
Air Service One has identified 15 European flag-carriers that operate a mix of narrow-body (NB) and wide-body (WB) aircraft, and plan to operate at least 1,000 flights with WB aircraft in 2023 Q2. Typically, WB aircraft tend to be used primarily on long-haul, intercontinental services. This analysis, using Cirium schedules data, compares the capacity (seat) […]
April 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story