Aer Lingus added a 4-weekly service between Dublin and Cleveland on Friday 19 May, marking the first new transatlantic addition to its network in almost four years. The 5,580-kilometre route will be maintained on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the A321neoLR aircraft. It faces no competition between the two cities. Flight EI87 departs Dublin […]
May 26, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aer Lingus introduced flights between Dublin and Liverpool on Thursday 27 April, making its third attempt at the route. The 225-kilometre service will be maintained by Emerald Airlines on Aer Lingus’ behalf under the Aer Lingus Regional brand. Flights will run 11-weekly on the 72-seat ATR 72 turboprop aircraft. Aer Lingus faces strong competition against […]
May 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
Aer Lingus has introduced a new seasonal domestic service in the United Kingdom with the launch of flights between Belfast BHD and Newquay on Monday 3 April. The 470-kilometre service is operated by Emerald Airlines on Aer Lingus’ behalf under the Aer Lingus Regional brand. Flights are maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays with […]
April 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Some 43 US airports have non-stop Europe flights this summer, according to Cirium schedules information data. When each airport’s network is examined, they have a median of four Europe routes. With 37, it is perhaps surprising that New York JFK does not have the most – Newark does (39), as shown in the following figure. […]
April 3, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Aer Lingus launched operations between Knock and London LHR, replacing the previously served London LGW, on Sunday 26 March. The 625-kilometre route is maintained daily with A320 aircraft. The Irish carrier faces no competition between the two airports. The move to Heathrow will provide greater connectivity to passengers transferring onto Aer Lingus’ IAG partner British Airways. […]
March 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Yorkshire’s Leeds Bradford Airport welcomed 3.29 million passengers last year. By December it was handling as many passengers as in the same month of 2019, but across the year as a whole traffic was down 18% compared with the last pre-pandemic year. Unusually, 2019 had not been the airport’s busiest year. That happened in 2017 […]
March 22, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Located in Brittany in the far northwest of France, Brest’s recovery continues. Brest welcomed 801,000 passengers in 2022, over a third lower than in 2019, its record year to date. Analysis of Brest’s passenger statistics reveals that this was primarily because of the domestic market, which was down by an estimated 293,000 passengers (-28%) versus […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The importance of the UK to Ireland market cannot be overstated. In 2022, over 28,000 people flew between the two countries each day, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority data. While this includes those who transferred to other flights, the majority were local. Across the whole year, more than 10.3 million people were transported. While […]
March 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in County Mayo, Ireland West Airport Knock is one of six airports in the country to have airline service. Knock ended 2022 with 722,000 passengers, according to its own statistics. While that was 10% below 2019 – its best year to date – it was still its fifth best year on record, albeit its […]
February 7, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vueling now serves Shannon in the west of Ireland. On Monday 12 September the Spanish carrier began 2-weekly service on the 910-kilometre route from Paris ORY. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday using the airline’s fleet of A321 aircraft. No other carrier connects these two airports. This is Vueling’s third route to Ireland from […]
September 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ireland’s busiest airport is seeing traffic recover rapidly in 2022. Though passenger numbers were down 52% in January compared with 2019, the latest figures for April show that demand is now at 85% of the level it was three years ago, in other words, down just 15%. Schedule data provided by the airlines suggests that […]
May 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story