Corendon Airlines has launched a new service between Münster/Osnabrück Airport and Heraklion in Greece, marking the carrier’s second route from the German airport alongside its existing Antalya operations. The new service to Heraklion, launched Monday 27 April, will initially operate twice per week, increasing to three weekly flights in the autumn. Airport and airline representatives […]
April 28, 2026 | Airports, Europe, Latest Route News +, News & Analysis
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
One of the leading airlines for new route launches in Europe this summer has been Corendon Airlines. The carrier comprises three separate entities; Corendon Dutch Airlines (IATA code CD based in the Netherlands), Corendon Airlines Europe (IATA code XR based in Malta) and Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC based in Turkey). Flights for all of […]
June 30, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of airport passenger data for April reveals that among Europe’s biggest air travel markets, Germany has been the slowest to recover. Passenger numbers were down 35% across German airports in April, compared with 27% in Turkey, 26% in the UK, 16% in Italy and just 12% in Spain. As it takes a while for […]
June 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Billund Airport (BLL) has already clawed back traffic lost during the pandemic and expects to set a new record for passenger numbers this summer. The airport, which saw 3.7 million people pass through its terminals in 2019, hit an all-time passenger record for April 2022! “The West Danish sky is heavy with wanderlust and most households […]
May 16, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Back in the summer of 2019 the leading carrier between the UK and Turkey was Thomas Cook Airlines. When the airline ceased operating in September of that year, there would have been concerns about the future of the market. And then came the pandemic. So it may come as a surprise, that this summer the […]
May 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC) began its first ever flights to Newcastle in the in north-east of the UK on Saturday 2 April with service from both Antalya and Dalaman. The fast-growing Turkish leisure carrier will operate both routes 2-weekly this summer. The Antalya service will be offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays with Dalaman flights […]
April 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With 25.5 million passengers in 2019, Düsseldorf Airport was Germany’s third busiest airport that year. However, with the opening of the new airport in Berlin (which in effect combined the traffic from Schönefeld and Tegel), Düsseldorf slipped to fourth in Germany in 2020 and 2021. Last year, the airport welcomed almost eight million passengers, 21% […]
March 2, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
England’s second city — birthplace of heavy metal, home of the Peaky Blinders and gateway to Shakespeare’s country — is on the cusp of a renaissance, and the gateway to it all is Birmingham Airport. The UK’s third largest airport outside of London, BHX has 35 million people living within two hours of its terminal. […]
February 22, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Ryanair announced this week that it would re-open its base at Nuremberg in Bavaria next summer with two aircraft to be stationed there. The carrier had first opened a single aircraft base at the German airport in the W16 season, but this was closed in 2019. A total of 13 new routes will be launched […]
December 10, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Fast-growing leisure carrier Corendon Airlines opened its latest base on 2 July at EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, as it is officially known. Most people simply refer to it as Basel (which is in Switzerland), as that is the nearest major population centre. However, the airport is physically in France but is administered jointly by French […]
July 6, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Turkey’s Corendon Airlines seems to be increasingly following in the footsteps of airberlin and Germania, by establishing bases at German airports to take locals on holiday to warmer, sunnier destinations. Having first started operations to Düsseldorf in S18 (to Antalya and Hurghada), the airline’s network from the German airport increased to seven destinations last summer […]