Pegasus Airlines introduced another new service to the UK on Tuesday 8 July by inaugurating flights between Istanbul SAW and Bristol. The 2,705-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with a mix of A320 and 737-800 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. What they said Rupert Lawrie, […]
July 17, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Jet2.com introduced a new seasonal route on Thursday 20 July from its Bristol base to Malaga. The 1,640-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly, on Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays with the 189-seat 737-800 aircraft. The leisure carrier faces strong competition on the route. These include 17-weekly rotations by easyJet, 8-weekly Ryanair operations and 2-weekly services by TUI Airways. Jet2.com […]
July 26, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aegean Airlines added two new seasonal destinations in the United Kingdom from its Athens hub on Friday 31 March with 2-weekly services to Birmingham and Bristol. The 2,560-kilometre route to Birmingham is operated on Tuesdays and Fridays and is contested by Jet2.com on a 2-weekly basis. The 2,565-kilometre Bristol service runs Mondays and Fridays with […]
April 3, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Unlike Ryanair and Wizz Air, who have both increased their market share of European air travel since 2019, easyJet’s share has remained virtually unchanged at around 7.5%. This still makes it Europe’s second biggest carrier, well ahead of Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for 2023 Q2 indicated that easyJet’s […]
March 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of UK CAA monthly statistics for all of last year reveal that UK airports welcomed over 224 million passengers in 2022. That is more than three times as many as the 65.6 million handled in 2021, but still 25% fewer than were processed in 2019. Relative to 2019, the UK’s best month was October […]
February 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS has expanded its presence in the UK by introducing flights from its Zurich hub to Bristol. On Saturday 4 February, the Star Alliance carrier began a weekly service on the 925-kilometre route using the airline’s A220-300s. Frequencies will be increased to 2-weekly from 27 March, operating each Monday and Friday, growing to 3-weekly from […]
February 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The latest airport traffic statistics from the UK CAA for August 2022 confirm that none of the country’s top 15 airports has yet seen traffic recover to pre-pandemic levels. Even Germany, which has a significantly lower rate of recovery than the UK, had a few airports that were recording traffic growth compared with three years […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, 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 +
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 […]
In the seven weeks since The ANKER Report was last published, Europe’s airlines have again been busy starting a significant number of new routes. This analysis covers the period of Saturday 24 July to Friday 10 September, a total of 49 days. While The ANKER Report would like to believe that it has identified all of […]
September 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Over a year later than originally planned, Lufthansa finally began service between its Frankfurt base and Bristol in the south-west of the UK on Monday 2 August. Frequency on the route is set to increase from 2-weekly in the first week to 6-weekly by the beginning of September. The service is planned as daily for […]
August 5, 2021 | Latest Route News +