ANA 40 year Washington

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has marked the 40th anniversary of its services between Tokyo and Washington, with the Japanese carrier having launched the route on 26 July, 1986. Washington was among ANA’s first long-haul international destinations, with flights commencing just ten days after the airline inaugurated operations to Los Angeles. The Washington service initially ran […]

Air Service One talks with… Raquel Soares Pacheco, Manager, Aviation Development, ANA Portugal, Ponta Delgada Airport

Air Service One had the pleasure of talking with Raquel Soares Pacheco, Manager, Aviation Development, ANA/VINCI Airports, Ponta Delgada Airport ahead of this years Routes Europe conference as part of the Air Service One talks with series. Raquel talked about the main entry point into the islands of the Azores, she gave us the low […]

HND-IST

ANA launched its latest long-haul service on Wednesday 12 February by introducing flights between Tokyo HND and Istanbul IST. The 8,980-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the 184-seat 787-8 aircraft. The carrier will complement Turkish Airlines, a fellow Star Alliance member, which runs a daily rotation between the two […]

February 13, 2025 | Latest Route News +

HND-ARN

ANA chose the last day of January to inaugurate flights between Tokyo HND and Stockholm ARN, its second new destination in Europe in two months. The 8,185-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 184-seat 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. Flight NH221 departs Tokyo HND at 00:30 local […]

February 3, 2025 | Latest Route News +

HND-MXP

ANA inaugurated flights between Tokyo HND and Milan MXP on Tuesday 3 December, marking its return to Italy’s second largest city following a 14-year hiatus. The 9,760-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays with the 215-seat 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. Flight NH207 departs […]

December 9, 2024 | Latest Route News +

Air Service One, easyJet Recovery

As revealed in last week’s lead story, both easyJet and Ryanair are currently seeing significantly lower capacity recovery figures for November 2022 than for August 2022 (when compared with the same months in 2019). However, while Ryanair’s November capacity is still 13% higher than in 2019, analysis of Cirium schedule data shows that easyJet is […]

September 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

OSL - OPO

Norwegian carrier Flyr celebrated one year of scheduled services on 30 June 2022. The following day it launched a new 2-weekly service on the 2,510-kilometre route between Oslo and Porto. This appears to be the first time that these two airports have ever been connected with non-stop service. Flyr, which initially operated primarily on domestic […]

July 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +

OPO - RNS apron letters

easyJet began a new 3-weekly service between Porto and Rennes on Tuesday 7 December. The 940-kilometre route will be operated using the airline’s A320s every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, though the Thursday service does not operate during January. The route is currently on sale until 26 March. According to Cirium Data and Analytics schedules, the […]

December 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +