LEAV Aviation inaugurated flights between Cologne Bonn and Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria on Tuesday 1 September. The new route will be maintained weekly with the A320 aircraft. The carrier is the sole operator between the two cities. Flight KK480 departs Cologne Bonn at 04:30 local time, arriving in Deir ez-Zor at 09:45 local time. The return service, operating […]
September 8, 2026 | Latest Route News +
LEAV Aviation inaugurated flights between Cologne Bonn and Aleppo in Syria on Monday 17 August. The new route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Saturdays, with the A320 aircraft. The carrier is the sole operator between the two cities. Flight KK472 departs Cologne Bonn at 07:30 local time, arriving in Aleppo at 12:30 local […]
August 20, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Eurowings launched the first of three new routes from Cologne Bonn on Wednesday 1 July. 1 July: Prishtina (2-weekly) 2 July: Tbilisi (2-weekly) 17 July: Belgrade (2-weekly) The airline will face competition only on its Prishtina route, where GP Aviation operates 2-weekly flights. What they said Max Kownatzki, CEO of Eurowings, said: “Pristina, Tbilisi, Belgrade […]
July 16, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Eurowings commenced a new service between Cologne/Bonn and Erbil in Iraq on Wednesday 7 May. The 3,345-kilometre journey will be maintained weekly with the A320 aircraft, competing against Iraq’s UR Airlines’ 2-weekly rotations. The introduction of flights to Erbil completes Eurowings’ summer expansion from Cologne/Bonn, which has seen the LCC add flights from the German […]
May 14, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Cologne Bonn welcomed nearly 9.8 million passengers in 2023, making it Germany’s fifth-busiest airport. Traffic was down by over a fifth compared to before the pandemic in 2019, virtually fully because of the much smaller domestic market. Cologne Bonn’s recovery benefited from the arrival of multiple carriers, including Aegean (2022), Air Anka (2024), Air Cairo […]
November 27, 2024 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Eurowings inaugurated flights between Cologne/Bonn and Jeddah on Tuesday 5 November. The 4,270-kilometre journey will be operated 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the A320neo aircraft. The airline faces no competition between the two cities. The new route, which marks the first direct connection from North Rhine-Westphalia to Saudi Arabia, complements the launch of […]
November 14, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Air Cairo introduced flights between Cairo and Cologne/Bonn on Sunday 27 October. The 3,060-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays, with the A320 aircraft. The carrier will compete against Nile Air’s 2-weekly rotations between the two cities. What they said Thilo Schmid, Chairman of the Management Board of Cologne/Bonn Airport, said: “Cairo is […]
October 30, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Cologne Bonn is Germany’s sixth-busiest airport this winter. The latest Cirium data shows that it has 1.86 million departing seats, which is a quarter lower than in W19. While the North Rhine-Westphaliaairport’s recovery has been impacted by Eurowings’ cuts and the exit of easyJet – previously the fourth-largest carrier – in particular, it has […]
November 14, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With this summer having been the first ‘normal’ travel summer since 2019, a look at airport passenger statistics across this period for the major European air travel markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Türkiye and the UK), reveals some interesting results. Comparing passenger demand for April to September in 2023 versus the same period in 2019 […]
November 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Egyptian carrier Nile Air expanded its European network on Sunday 15 October with the introduction of flights between Cairo and Cologne Bonn. The 3,060-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the 164-seat A320 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the route, Flight NP215 departs Cairo at 12:15 local time, arriving […]
October 19, 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
Lufthansa’s lower-cost subsidiary Eurowings can trace its origins back to 1993 and has just celebrated its 30thanniversary. A brief history of the airline’s evolution from regional carrier to its current incarnation can be found on the Eurowings corporate website. The basic Eurowings brand (IATA code EW) has been joined in recent times by the long-haul […]
February 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story