For many years France was seen as a challenging market for Europe’s low-cost carriers. A combination of high airport charges, high social costs for staff employed there and a perceived belief that the French were not keen on low-cost airlines, helped keep Air France in a dominant position. Originally, it was only easyJet (with its […]
February 17, 2023 | Airlines, 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
Transavia France on Friday 16 December introduced a new weekly service from its Paris ORY base to Luleå in northern Sweden. The 2,200-kilometre route will face no direct competition and will operate until the end of March. Lulea has this winter welcomed some other new international services: 9 December: to London LHR with SAS (2-weekly) […]
December 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
France has always been a large and critical market for easyJet. This year, the country has 21.2 million easyJet seats, making it second only to the UK by capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. With the change to winter schedules has come another new airport for easyJet in France. It started service to Paris BVA, […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest traffic statistics from the busiest French airports for August 2022 show that four of the top 15 airports have seen traffic recover to beyond pre-pandemic levels. Overall, across all the top 15 airports, passenger numbers were down 13% versus August 2019. However, among Europe’s busiest country markets by seat capacity in August, France […]
October 12, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
When the COVID pandemic struck, governments were quick to impose severe restrictions on international travel in an attempt to minimise the spread of the virus. This meant that during the summer of 2020, holidaymakers were encouraged to plan domestic holidays rather than travelling abroad. For people in mainland France this meant that the Mediterranean island […]
September 20, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
After the COVID pandemic struck and impacted air travel in March 2020, international travel was seriously impacted for a long time due to the restrictive and ever-changing travel rules imposed, somewhat arbitrarily, by governments around the world. In Europe it was noticeable that in many countries, it was easier to maintain domestic services as these […]
July 29, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea now has two Airbus aircraft based at Lille. The carrier based its first aircraft at the French airport on 1 April of this year, although it has been serving the airport since June 2012. In the pre-pandemic summer of 2019, it was offering flights to just four domestic destinations; Montpellier, plus three airports in […]
July 13, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées Airport (IATA code LDE) has become the latest French base for Volotea. On Friday 1 July the airline based a single A319 at the airport and launched routes to Paris ORY (2-daily) and Strasbourg (2-weekly). The following day saw the start of service to Naples and Palermo (both 2-weekly), with 2-weekly service […]
July 8, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The summer season has got off to a flying start at Bordeaux Airport (BOD). Its latest flight schedule reveals 123 direct routes – including 13 new ones – which is an increase of more than 20% compared to 2021. “Among the novelties, our passengers will have the pleasure of discovering Florence, Zadar, Pisa, Trapani, Santiago […]
May 16, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
On 5 April 2022, Volotea celebrated ten years of successfully flying people between Europe’s medium-sized cities. Despite being headquartered in Barcelona, the airline’s first base was at Venice Marco Polo Airport in Italy, with the first flights on 5 April 2012 being to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. Since then, the carrier has gone on to […]
April 7, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Transavia France has expanded its presence at Marseille with the addition of three new routes, including a new 2-weekly service to Tunis. Launched on 29 March, this 850-kilometre route will be offered on Tuesdays and Saturdays until July when the days of operation change to Wednesdays and Sundays. They then revert back to Tuesdays and […]
April 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +