Vueling is Europe’s fourth largest (U)LCC, behind Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air. Vueling has 11.7 million seats in July-September 2023 (Q3), and about 3.4% of the European short-haul market. According to Cirium data, the carrier’s capacity has fallen by 1.7% versus the same three months last year, despite opening a base at London LGW in […]
September 21, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Shenzhen Airlines launched flights from its hub in Shenzhen, in southeastern China, and Barcelona on Monday 28 August. The 2-weekly 10,042-kilometre service will be maintained on Mondays and Fridays with the 309-seat A330-300 aircraft. The Star Alliance member plans to increase frequencies to 3-weekly from 7 February 2024. The carrier faces no competition on the […]
August 29, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Despite being the world’s largest airline, American is only the third largest operator between the US and Europe. Cirium schedules information shows that it has 3.41 million available seats in S23, behind United (4.59 million) and Delta (4.53 million). Curiously, while United and Delta have both exceeded their S19 capacity by healthy amounts, American remains down […]
Spain’s Air Europa introduced a new seasonal domestic service between Barcelona and Lanzarote on the Canary Islands on Monday July 31. The 1,975-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the 186-seat 737-800 aircraft until 15 September. The Madrid-based carrier faces competition from Vueling, which runs 13-weekly flights on the route, as […]
August 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Azerbaijan Airlines has expanded its presence in Europe by introducing a pair of new routes from its hub in Baku to Vienna and Barcelona on Tuesday 2 May. Both the 2,780-kilometre service to Vienna and the 3,990-kilometre route to Barcelona will be maintained 2-weekly with the A319 aircraft. Flights between the Azeri and Austrian capitals […]
May 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Vueling has resumed service to Amman in Jordan, a destination it last served briefly in the summer of 2010. The 2-weekly service from Barcelona began on Saturday 3 December, with flights departing the Spanish airport on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Competition on the 3,200-kilometre route comes from Royal Jordanian which also operates 2-weekly (on Thursdays and […]
December 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Vueling is Europe’s fourth biggest (U)LCC, behind Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air, but around 50% larger than Eurowings, Norwegian and Transavia who are in a tight battle for fifth place. However, it seems to get very little media coverage compared to its rivals. One of the reasons for this may be that while many of […]
November 25, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Passenger data for July from Aena reveals that Spain’s airports handled just over 27 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 16 airports (all of which handled at least 350,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Leading […]
August 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
During a presentation at FITUR 22 in Madrid earlier this week, Vueling confirmed that its summer 2022 capacity will be comparable with that offered in summer 2019, and that it will be operating over 320 routes (100 domestic and 220 international) across 30 countries. The airline also revealed that it would be launching five additional […]
January 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vueling started flying its raft of new routes from Paris ORY on Tuesday 2 November. As previously reported, the LCC, which is part of IAG, announced almost 30 new routes from the French capital after it was awarded slots that Air France had to give up, in exchange for financial support from the French government. […]
September passenger data for Spanish airports, published recently by Aena, shows that the country’s airports handled 16.32m passengers last month. That is three times as many as in September 2020 (5.46m), but still 40% fewer than in September 2019 (27.14m). In August, the airports had welcomed 18.01m passengers which was 39% down on the same […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
easyJet on 20 July launched service between its base in Barcelona and Salzburg in Austria, operating 2-weekly (on Tuesdays and Saturdays). The 1,128-kilometre route faces no direct competition. The inaugural service (flight number EZY 3647 operated by an Airbus A319 registration OE-LKI) departed Catalonia at 16:06 local time and touched down in the Austrian city […]
July 22, 2021 | Latest Route News +