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
Airport data collected for 2022 reveals that Europe’s six busiest airports all handled at least 48 million passengers last year. Istanbul IST led the way with 64.3 million followed by London LHR (61.6m), Paris CDG (57.5m), Amsterdam (52.5m), Madrid (50.6m) and Frankfurt (48.9m). Seventh placed Barcelona was some way behind with 41.6m passengers while eighth […]
March 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
Chalair (IATA code CE) launched a domestic service between Paris ORY and Brest on Wednesday 8 March. The French regional airline maintains 11-weekly flights between the two cities, including two-daily Monday to Friday and one service on Sunday. The 500-kilometre route is being operated by the 48-seat ATR 42 turboprop. What they said Alain Battisti, […]
March 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Ottawa ended 2022 with just shy of three million passengers, according to the airport’s own statistics. Traffic at Canada’s capital airport was 41% lower than in 2019, with US and non-US international down by 72% and 79% respectively. It was not helped by the exit of American and Delta, nor the loss of eight US, […]
February 15, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
With the promise of warm temperatures, there are an average of 50 daily departures from Europe to the Caribbean this winter, according to Cirium schedules data. In total, the market has just under 2.8 million departing seats, 2% smaller than in the high of W21 (and 10% below W19). The year-on-year (YOY) change is primarily […]
February 1, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
Located in the south of the very mountainous French island of Corsica, Figari welcomed its 900,000th passenger on 22 December 2022, the first time it has ever had that many. Even before the year ended, traffic had grown by 16% versus its previous best year (2021), aided by French holiday demand and the launch of […]
January 3, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Twin Jet (IATA code T7) on Thursday 1 December began non-stop service between Lyon and Bologna. The 510-kilometre route will be served Monday to Friday using 19-seat Beechcraft 1900Ds. The route was most recently served 6-weekly by Air France until the end of October 2022 using Embraer E170s operated by HOP! Pre-pandemic the route was […]
December 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The winter period is always difficult for Europe’s airlines. Profits are hard to come by and this winter the industry faces the additional challenges of Russia’s war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and concerns about a possible recession. This week we take a closer look at which routes western Europe’s major legacy carriers have added […]
December 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
From Europe there are non-stop flights to many other continents, such as Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. While many intercontinental flights would be considered long-haul, some can be really short, such as from Spain to Morocco. Analysis of the leading airlines operating intercontinental flights from Europe (as measured by ASKs – Available […]
November 4, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
In recent years, Air France has used its low-cost subsidiary Transavia France (IATA code TO) to take the fight to low-cost carriers (primarily easyJet) from French airports. It now has a huge base at Paris ORY and a significant presence at Nantes (almost 40 routes), Lyon (24 routes) and Montpellier (19 routes). However, Transavia only […]
July 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
An interesting development, apparently driven by the pandemic, is how Air France has chosen to use its low-cost subsidiary Transavia (IATA code TO) to significantly expand its leisure network from Paris ORY. Analysis of Cirium schedule data shows that while Air France has reduced its seat capacity by 33% at Orly (comparing August 2022 with […]
July 15, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story