Growth at Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza has been spectacular. According to the airport’s statistics, 10.7 million passengers were welcomed in 2024, which was by far its best year to date and the first time that traffic had exceeded the 10 million milestone. Nearly 7.4 million passengers were added since 2019, with Wizz Air being […]
October 20, 2025 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of the best-known characteristics of ULCC Wizz Air is fast growth. Not so in S24. According to the latest Cirium schedules information, the Group – consisting of Hungary, UK, Malta and Abu Dhabi units – has 42.1 million available seats. It is down by 1% versus S23. This is overwhelmingly because of ongoing problems […]
March 20, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Three-quarters of Tirana’s winter seat capacity is provided by ULCC giants Wizz Air and Ryanair, based on Cirium schedules information. While Wizz Air has served the Albanian capital since April 2017, the first flight by Ryanair was on 31 October 2023 – the first day of W23. Ryanair immediately became the airport’s second-largest operator, which […]
January 9, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With 2023 almost done and dusted, it seems a good time to analyse how European air travel has evolved since 2019. With this year (arguably) the first normal year for travel post-pandemic, how have Europe’s biggest airlines and country markets performed compared with four years ago? Overall, according to our analysis of Cirium schedules data, […]
December 22, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Albania has emerged as Europe’s fastest growing aviation market with passenger numbers at its gateway in the capital of Tirana more than doubling compared to the pre-pandemic 2019. The country’s thriving tourism industry, a new airport operator and an ensuing battle between ULCC juggernauts, have secured the country’s position as star performer in the European […]
October 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The Western Balkans is an underserved region for Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline. It is only the tenth largest carrier, with Albania a key missing part of its network. This changes in W23, when Ryanair will finally begin serving Tirana, its third airport in the region. Launching the Albanian capital is seemingly partly because of the […]
June 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has arguably been the most proactive airline anywhere in the world when it came to network development since the start of the pandemic. According to Cirium schedule data for July 2022, it is currently offering 33% more monthly seats than it did in pre-pandemic July 2019. However, due to the evolution of its […]
July 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Among Europe’s biggest airlines, none is planning to grow faster this summer than Wizz Air. Based on analysis of the latest schedule data submitted to Cirium, the ULCC is expecting to deliver between 35% and 40% more seat capacity across its network in 2022 Q2 than it did in 2019 Q2. Recent data from Eurocontrol […]
April 22, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Albania (IATA code ZB) began 3-weekly service between Tirana and Düsseldorf on Sunday 3 April. The 1,480-kilometre route between the Albanian capital and Germany’s fourth busiest airport will be flown on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays. The airline currently has two aircraft according to planespotters.net, one A319 (registration ZA-BEL) and one A320 (ZA-BBC), with both […]
April 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Not many European airports managed to set passenger records during the summer of 2021, but Tirana Airport, serving the Albanian capital, was one of them. Traffic at the airport had grown from under one million annual passengers in 2006 to over three million in 2019, having seen traffic growth in every year between those two […]
March 10, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of the latest schedule data provided by airlines to Cirium, reveals that, as of 11 December, planned capacity for December 2021 across all European countries is at 76.1% of the figure for December 2019. This compares favourably with the equivalent figure taken at the same point in the month for previous months; November (73.3%), […]
December 13, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Latest air traffic movement data from Eurocontrol (to Saturday 13 November) reveals that flights across all airlines (including cargo airlines such as DHL) are at 78% of the level seen in mid-November 2019. This compares with around 72% when The ANKER Report last examined these figures five weeks ago. A look at the graph below […]
November 17, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis