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Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 80% of the level they were back in 2019. With Independence Day falling on a Sunday this year, passenger numbers peaked on 4 July at 85% of the level reported in 2019. However, while […]
July 27, 2021 | News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The end of July is almost here and all across Europe schools have finished for the summer holidays and everyone is looking forward to getting away for a well deserved holiday. Or are they? With ever-changing travel restrictions still in place, no sign of a relaxation in the rules for travelling from Europe to the […]
Tracking new route launches across Europe this summer, one thing has become abundantly clear. Many of Europe’s leading airlines have been launching new routes to airports serving the most popular tourist destinations in Greece. Analysing Cirium Data and Analytics schedule information for the week commencing 9 August 2021 reveals that scheduled airline seat capacity is […]
Back in the summer of 2019, Ryanair and Wizz Air only competed head-to-head on 41 routes. Those 41 routes involved 35 different airports, with Budapest leading the way as the airport with the most competition. The Hungarian capital saw the two ULCCs competing directly on 12 airport-pairs. Other airports where the two carriers went up […]
July 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With domestic markets playing such a key role for Europe’s airlines this summer, it is no surprise to see that easyJet has decided to ramp up the number of domestic routes it offers in the UK. Since 2013, the number of such routes has been very stable, at between 30 and 40. However, this summer […]
Maybe to the surprise of many, Europe’s financially-challenged flag-carriers have, between them, started some 300 new routes since the pre-pandemic summer of 2019. However, analysis by The ANKER Report of schedule information from Cirium Data and Analytics of 23 airlines operating from 26 airports, shows that these same airlines have currently suspended around 700 routes […]
Coinciding with the start of the rollout of the EU Digital COVID Certificate on 1 July, the latest Eurocontrol flight data figures show that Europe’s biggest airlines have seen a massive ramp up in operations during the last week. More than 200 million such certificates had apparently been issued by the beginning of July across […]
Passenger statistics collected by The ANKER Report, covering over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that Moscow Domodedovo was Europe’s busiest airport in May, handling just over 2.2 million passengers, down just 11% compared with May 2019. It edged out its city rival Moscow Sheremetyevo which welcomed just under 2.2 million travellers, which was 47% fewer […]
Turkey’s Corendon Airlines seems to be increasingly following in the footsteps of airberlin and Germania, by establishing bases at German airports to take locals on holiday to warmer, sunnier destinations. Having first started operations to Düsseldorf in S18 (to Antalya and Hurghada), the airline’s network from the German airport increased to seven destinations last summer […]
Analysis by The ANKER Report of the latest flight movement data published by Eurocontrol allows a comparison to be made about how quickly 16 of Europe’s biggest flag-carriers are recovering. Calculating the average number of daily flights using a 7-day moving average (to remove day of week variations) for June 2021 and June 2019 shows […]
Thursday 24 June 2021 saw the first commercial flight operated by Iceland’s new carrier PLAY (IATA code OG). The first destination from Reykjavik KEF was London STN, a route that has been served by a variety of carriers over the years, including Go Fly (BA’s in-house LCC that ended up being bought by easyJet) in […]
June 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, Latest Route News +, Top Story
Ryanair announced on Wednesday 23 June that it would start regular services to Helsinki starting this winter from eight of its bases. The Finnish capital has not previously featured in the Irish ULCC’s list of destinations, though its Austrian subsidiary Laudamotion operated flights briefly from Vienna last summer. The airport will not be a base, […]