Europe’s big three (U)LCCs – easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air – continued to evolve their networks in 2023. In this analysis of Cirium schedules data Air Service One reveals which airports these carriers chose to serve for the first time this year, which airports have seen a resumption of services and identifies those airports that […]
December 15, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
easyJet has increased its presence at Belfast’s downtown airport with the addition of two new domestic routes. On 26 June the UK-based LCC began 4-weekly service to Belfast BHD from both London LTN and Manchester. The 480-kilometre route from Luton is not served by any other carrier and was last served by easyJet in 2011. […]
July 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aer Lingus has introduced a new seasonal domestic service in the United Kingdom with the launch of flights between Belfast BHD and Newquay on Monday 3 April. The 470-kilometre service is operated by Emerald Airlines on Aer Lingus’ behalf under the Aer Lingus Regional brand. Flights are maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays with […]
April 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair has resumed operations out of Belfast BFS following a two-year hiatus by reinstating its base and introducing several new routes over the past week. 26 March: Cardiff (2-weekly) 26 March: Edinburgh (12, versus easyJet) 26 March: Faro (4, versus easyJet and Jet2.com) 26 March: Girona (2) 26 March: Krakow (2, versus easyJet) 26 March: […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair continues to grow its market share of European air travel. In the second quarter of this year, analysis of Cirium schedules data indicates that it will account for 14.6% of all scheduled seats from European airports. That is an increase of over three percentage points versus 2019 Q2. In this analysis we take a […]
March 3, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The UK’s tenth busiest airport, Belfast BFS welcomed 4.8 million passengers in 2022, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While that was 23% fewer than in 2019, this coming summer is set to be its biggest yet by seat capacity. Cirium schedules data indicates that the airport will have almost 2.7 million one-way seats, […]
February 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Belfast BHD is set to receive flights from Germany for the first time. On 23 April 2023, Lufthansa CityLine will begin Frankfurt, with the 4-weekly, 1,110-kilometre service using the 100-seat Embraer E190. It will provide an additional option to reach the wider world from Northern Ireland, will be the country’s sole German route following Ryanair’s […]
December 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
easyJet has further expanded its presence at Belfast BHD with the addition of a 3-weekly service from its base at Bristol. The first flight on the 420-kilometre route was on Wednesday 7 September. Service will operate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays for the rest of the summer season and also through the winter season. According […]
September 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
The revived Flybe has launched three new routes from Southampton on the UK’s south coast. On Saturday 23 July it began weekly service on the 915-kilometre route to Avignon in the south of France. The following day it added weekly service on the 1,040-kilometre route to Toulon, also in the south of France. The Avignon […]
July 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +