On 9 May 2026, United Airlines touched down in Glasgow, having last flown to the Scottish city in 2019. The seasonal flights operate daily from Newark, which is the carrier’s leading transatlantic gateway. When United last served Glasgow, it did so on the 757-200, largely as the route was inherited from Continental. This time, the […]
May 19, 2026 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Zurich is by far Switzerland’s busiest airport. The airport’s statistics show that it welcomed 31.2 million passengers in 2024. While down marginally compared to 2019’s figure, it was its second-best year on record. It had 120 passengers per movement, which was the most to date. In 2005, when RJs were much more prevalent, it had […]
November 21, 2025 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Halifax is the capital of the Eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is the largest city and the economic heart of Atlantic Canada. Halifax Stanfield International Airport is located closer to Dublin than it is to Vancouver. In 2024, the airport welcomed just shy of four million passengers, which was comfortably its best year […]
September 16, 2025 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The Seattle metro area has the 15th-largest population in the USA. Seattle-Tacoma is the main airport serving it. According to its own statistics, it welcomed 52.6 million passengers in 2024, its highest volume to date. It was its third year with over 50 million passengers, surpassing its previous record in 2019 by less than 2%. […]
May 7, 2025 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Edelweiss is a Swiss leisure airline, the sister carrier of SWISS and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. According to Planespotters.net, it has 19 aircraft: 14 A320s and five A340-300s. All of Edelweiss’s flights are from Zurich, although Cirium schedules data indicates that it had limited Geneva service in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Edelweiss is […]
January 16, 2025 | Airlines, Europe, Latest Route News +, Top Story
Located in southwest Ireland, Cork is the country’s second most populous city. It welcomed 2.24 million passengers in 2022, making it the Republic of Ireland’s second busiest airport. It accounted for almost 7% the nation’s traffic. While Cork’s passengers were 13.5% below 2019, it outperformed Dublin in the recovery (-14.7%). In August 2023, Cork had […]
September 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Despite passenger traffic growing by three-quarters between 2005 and 2019, few of Europe’s busier airports remain as affected by the pandemic as Zurich. It welcomed 22.6 million passengers last year, down by 28% versus 2019 and the lowest level (excluding 2020/2021) since 2009, according to the airport’s own figures. Zurich’s recovery has not been helped […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Self-described as Switzerland’s leading holiday airline, you would think that Edelweiss is the nation’s second-biggest carrier by seat capacity after SWISS. But that is not the case, easyJet is. However, while easyJet serves Geneva, Basel and Zurich, Edelweiss focuses only on Zurich. The airline has 1.3 million departing seats from the airport this summer – […]
February 2, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
A year later than originally planned, Edelweiss (the leisure subsidiary of SWISS) began weekly service between Zurich and Newquay in the south-west of the UK. Flights will operate every Sunday between 3 July and 18 September, a total of just 18 flights. The carrier will utilise its 174-seat A320s on the 1,045-kilometre route. Zurich increases […]
July 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Edelweiss Air has begun a new long-haul service from its home base in Zurich to Guanacaste in Costa Rica on Sunday 28 November. The 9,460-kilometre route will be flown weekly using the airline’s A340-300 fleet. The carrier, the leisure subsidiary of national carrier SWISS, has four of the long-haul aircraft in its fleet. The inaugural […]
November 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Edelweiss, the leisure-focussed subsidiary of SWISS, launched a 2-weekly service from Zurich to Muscat in Oman on Tuesday 2 November. The airline will operate its A340-300s on the 5,110-kilometre route. Oman Air has connected the two airports in the past, including last summer, having started service in December 2011. The Swiss carrier also recently added […]
November 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +
SWISS subsidiary Edelweiss (IATA code WK) began a new service involving two destinations in Tanzania on Friday 8 October with the introduction of service from Zurich to Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar, operated as a triangle route. The inaugural service (flight number WK 76 operated by an Airbus A340-300, registration HB-JMG) departed Zurich at 23:10 and touched […]
October 19, 2021 | Latest Route News +