Having operated a series of charter flights in S22, Romania’s AirConnect started its own scheduled services on 27 March. As they were expected to begin last summer, the delay meant the regional carrier performed many wet-lease flights for other operators. It has two ATR-72-600s but is also leasing in a Saab 340, with talk of […]
April 4, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
Some 47 European airports have non-stop flights to New York JFK and/or Newark this summer. Between them, they have 8.8 million one-way seats for sale, according to Cirium schedules information data. That is 14.0% more than in S22 and 1.3% more than in S19. Of the 47 airports, Paris CDG ranks second while Paris ORY […]
March 30, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located by the Bay of Biscay on the north coast of Spain, Santander is the capital of the Cantabria region. According to Aena traffic figures, the airport had 1.10 million passengers in 2022, down by a modest 6.0% versus 2019. Key was Ryanair, by far the biggest carrier at the airport. Since its first Santander […]
March 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Belfast BHD (known locally as George Best Belfast City Airport) ended 2022 with 1.66 million passengers and was the UK’s 17th busiest airport, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. It accounted for a quarter of all Northern Ireland air passengers. Traffic was down by 32.4% over 2019, less recovered than UK airports generally (-25.2%). […]
March 27, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
El Al is the largest airline between Tel Aviv and Europe/North America. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 1.79 million one-way seats this summer – 10% fewer than in S19. That is because its network has shrunk from 52 to 40 routes. Europe/North America share falls to just 20% In the past decade, […]
March 23, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
ITA Airways has 12.29 billion ASKs to, from and within Italy this summer, according to Cirium schedules information data. It is behind only Ryanair as the largest airline serving the southern European nation. Replacing Alitalia, ITA’s first commercial flight was on 15 October 2021. Eighteen months later, it remains 30% smaller by ASKs than perpetually […]
March 22, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
According to our research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines this year launched over 1,800 new routes involving at least one European airport. This compares with almost 2,100 that we identified in 2021. However, it should be noted that following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February we stopped tracking new […]
December 16, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Routes Europe 2022, to be held in Bergen, Norway will be the 15th route development forum uniting the European region. Taking place from 18-20 May 2022, the event attracts the region’s leading airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss their air service networks. Set over three business days, the conference programme will bring together airline CEOs and […]
April 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Despite the pandemic, it was a busy year for airline route planners working for airlines in the US. As traffic recovered more quickly (compared with Europe) to reach around 80% of 2019 demand by the end of the year, US carriers in particular used the opportunity to try out many new routes. The ANKER Report […]
January 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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