ULCCs are renowned for fast growth, but that is not presently the case for the USA’s Allegiant. Data supplied by the airline to Cirium for April-September (Q2/Q3) shows that it has 10.48 million available seats, -2.6% versus the same six months in 2022. In contrast, US domestic seats are +9.1%. While Allegiant has far exceeded […]
May 22, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The United States to Europe is by far the world’s largest long-haul market. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 3,903-weekly one-way flights this August (about 558 daily). They have risen by 1.7% versus the same week in 2019. Some 320 airport pairs and 466 routes are served in this all-important month. Much has […]
May 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The renowned resort area and big city of Antalya was Europe’s 10th busiest airport in 2022. The airport’s figures shows that it had 31.2 million passengers, fewer than half a million above Istanbul SAW and surpassing the likes of Rome FCO. Despite the significance of leisure travel during the pandemic, Antalya’s traffic was 12.6% lower […]
May 18, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Loganair has inaugurated City of Derry and Dundee to London LHR, the next stage in its evolving UK capital network. Loganair – ‘Scotland’s airline’ – has served London since 2017. In this time, it has had scheduled flights to four of six London airports: Stansted, Southend, City, and Heathrow. Only Gatwick and Luton have not […]
May 17, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Liverpool is to become Jet2.com’s 11th base (all in the UK) when operations begin next March. Four 737-800s will be based at the airport with the airline planning to operate 20 routes during the first summer season with up to 54 weekly departures. Seven of the routes are to destinations not currently served non-stop from […]
May 16, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Themes of the Week Southwest and Spirit trim late summer and early fall capacity. United is exiting a station, bringing the legacy airline station exit count to 74 since April 2020. WestJet puts the WIN in Winnipeg. Chinese airlines have been allowed to increase flights to the U.S. Safe travels to everyone coming to the MSO Airport […]
May 15, 2023 | News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Palermo is among the better recovered of Italy’s busier airports. According to the airport’s figures, it welcomed 7.12 million passengers in 2022, up by 1.4% versus 2019. In the first quarter of 2023, it had 1.31 million, an increase of 5.3% versus the same three months in the pre-pandemic 2019. July-September 2023 seats are up […]
Gothenburg is Sweden’s second most populous city and has about 1.1 million people in its metro area. According to Cirium information, Gothenburg Landvetter has 900,000 one-way seats this July-September (Q3), as shown below. With capacity about a fifth below Q3 2019 and, surprisingly, less than 10% above 2022, Gothenburg is the fifth-largest airport in Sweden, […]
May 11, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Mexico to the US is the world’s third-largest international country market based on August flights. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 2,764 weekly departures that month (nearly 400 daily). It is smaller than only USA-Canada and UK-Spain. Mexico-US August departures are 8.8% above 2019 and 2.2% greater year-on-year, the previous record. 31 airports […]
May 10, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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
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 […]
May 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story, Uncategorized
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 […]