The excitement and media attention surrounding the opening of easyJet‘s ‘new’ base at Newcastle International Airport rather conveniently ignores the fact that the airport was a base for the airline from 2003 until the pandemic. In fact, in 2010 easyJet accounted for almost 30% of seats at the airport and was by far the airport’s […]
March 26, 2026 | Bitesize Analysis
It was recently announced that easyJet would finally make Birmingham a base, with three aircraft to be stationed at the UK airport from the start of next summer (S24). The LCC was already planning to operate 11 routes from the airport this summer, including domestic routes to Belfast BFS, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Compared with last […]
May 29, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The last week has sadly seen the collapse of two European airlines, Flybe version 2 and Flyr. Both carriers were launched since the start of the pandemic and focussed, at least initially, on their respective domestic markets of the UK and Norway. While the revived Flybe remained focussed on the domestic market for all of […]
February 3, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Flybe has been grounded. Again. The airline, which returned to the air last April, after having collapsed in early 2020, operated its last flights on Friday 27 January. According to our analysis of Cirium schedule data, the carrier was operating 17 routes involving 12 airports (10 in the UK plus Amsterdam and Geneva) at the […]
January 29, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Since the arrival of COVID, the UK’s recovery in air travel demand has been well below the European average with the country adopting severe travel restrictions in the early days and waiting longer than many of its European neighbours before removing the majority of restrictions. It has consistently lagged behind its major European rivals France, […]
December 9, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in the tourist county of Cornwall in Southwest England, Newquay welcomed 171,000 passengers between April and September, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Of these, 118,000 (69%) were domestic. Depending on the month, it ranked 26th to 29th among the UK’s busiest airports. Newquay’s domestic passenger volume was 74% of what it had […]
November 23, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
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
The future of Doncaster Sheffield Airport (IATA code DSA) in the UK appears to have been sealed with the announcement this week that the owners, Peel Group, have determined that the airport has a fundamental lack of financial viability. As a result, flights are set to end in early November. The airport, opened on 28 […]
September 28, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
In 2004, the routes between Birmingham and Glasgow, and Birmingham and Edinburgh, ranked as the seventh and tenth busiest UK domestic routes. By 2019 neither ranked in the top 25. Capacity on both routes had fallen by at least 50%. Both routes are just over 400 kilometres in length, so it would be tempting to […]
August 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Between Sunday 24 July and Saturday 30 July, Air Service One has identified: 20 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by eight airlines involving 29 airports. Iberia launched the most new routes with seven. Then came Turkish Airlines with four and Flybe with three. 8 (40%) were already served by other carriers, […]
August 1, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
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 +
Aer Lingus Regional on Thursday 7 July added two new routes from Belfast BHD. Using ATR 72s operated by Emerald Airlines, there will be daily flights on the 510-kilometre route to Southampton, competing with Eastern Airways, which already offers 13-weekly flights. In addition, Aer Lingus Regional is now offering 5-weekly flights on the 400-kilometre route […]
July 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story