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During a presentation at FITUR 22 in Madrid earlier this week, Vueling confirmed that its summer 2022 capacity will be comparable with that offered in summer 2019, and that it will be operating over 320 routes (100 domestic and 220 international) across 30 countries. The airline also revealed that it would be launching five additional […]
January 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The eyes of the world were (briefly) on Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport this week, as world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic returned home to Serbia after being deported from Australia, where he had been hoping to win the Australian Open for a tenth time. The airport serving the Serbian capital, which is operated by […]
January 19, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
There are several ‘rules’ that have defined how Europe’s low-cost carriers operate. These include high aircraft utilisation and no night-stopping of crews. To satisfy both of these rules that has usually meant trying to operate three return flights (or six sectors) in a day, airport curfews permitting. As a result, you might imagine that the […]
January 14, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Allegiant surprised many industry observers last week by announcing an order with Boeing for brand new aircraft. It will purchase 50 737 MAX aircraft (a mix of 737-7s and 737-8-200s) and has an option to purchase 50 more. This marks an evolution of the airline’s fleet policy which has previously been based around using older, […]
January 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
While demand for air travel in Europe in 2021 may have still been down significantly compared with 2019, that did not mean that airline route planners had a quiet year. In fact, quite the opposite, as many airlines were willing to experiment with new routes thanks to having excess capacity. As a result, The ANKER […]
January 6, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Air France/KLM Group has its own in-house LCC, Transavia. Although it has just a single brand, there are actually two separate airlines, the Dutch-based carrier (IATA code HV) and the French-based carrier (IATA code TO). This analysis focuses on the French subsidiary, sometimes also referred to as Transavia France. Launched from Paris ORY in […]
January 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the fifth straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in November, handling 3.84 million passengers. However, that is still 30% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was Paris CDG with 3.35 million passengers, 41% fewer than it handled two years earlier. In October, the French airport […]
December 30, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Well that was quick. Having announced on 22 December that it acquired enough slots from Norwegian to justify basing four additional A321neos at Gatwick next summer, the following day Wizz Air announced the 14 new routes that it would be adding from the start of the summer season. Details of the new routes, launch dates, […]
December 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
AnadoluJet is a brand of Turkish Airlines and is favoured by the Turkish flag-carrier when it comes to operating from Antalya and also Istanbul SAW. Unhelpfully from an analyst’s perspective, it also shares the same “TK” code as its parent company. Although Pegasus Airlines is the biggest carrier at Istanbul’s second airport, Turkish Airlines has […]
December 22, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at just under 85% of the level they were back in 2019. Compared with this time last year, passenger numbers are virtually doubled at around two million per day. Airlines launch 196 new routes […]
December 20, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Having basically abandoned its second London hub at Gatwick at the start of the pandemic, British Airways (BA) has announced that it will be resuming short-haul services from the airport next summer, but only after negotiating new deals with unions to drive down costs. This will, hopefully, make the UK flag-carrier more competitive with easyJet, […]
December 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of the latest schedule data provided by airlines to Cirium, reveals that, as of 11 December, planned capacity for December 2021 across all European countries is at 76.1% of the figure for December 2019. This compares favourably with the equivalent figure taken at the same point in the month for previous months; November (73.3%), […]
December 13, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story