Twin Jet (IATA code T7) on 17 January launched service between the two southern French cities of Marseille and Toulouse. The 310-kilometre air route (which is a 400-kilometre, four hour surface journey by car) will be operated 5-weekly by the airline using its 19-seat Beechcraft 1900Ds. There will be a single daily flight on Mondays, […]
January 27, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The Air France/KLM Group has its own in-house LCC, Transavia. Although it has just a single brand, there are actually two separate airlines, the Dutch-based carrier (IATA code HV) and the French-based carrier (IATA code TO). This analysis focuses on the French subsidiary, sometimes also referred to as Transavia France. Launched from Paris ORY in […]
January 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
As the Omicron variant threatens to create additional uncertainty around the demand for air travel this winter, we take a closer look at Europe’s three biggest low-cost carriers; easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air. In particular, we examine their leading country markets in December 2021 and how this compares with the pre-pandemic month of December 2019. […]
December 10, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Latest passenger figures show that Paris ORY handled 1.83m passengers in September (down 30% versus the same month in 2019) which ranks it 15th among European airports, down from 12th in August. The airport has long been perceived as being dominated by Air France, but even before the pandemic struck the carrier only accounted for […]
October 29, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
This weekend has seen airport and airline network planners and developers finally meet face-to-face for the first time in over 18 months, as the 26th World Routes Development Forum takes place in Milan, Italy. This is a positive sign not just for the aviation industry, but for the whole business community as such conferences in […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Spanish carrier Binter Canarias (IATA code NT) is, as the name suggests, focussed on serving the Spanish Canary Islands. In July 2019, the vast majority of its flights connected five airports in the Canary Islands; Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife TFN. It also offered service from three other Canary Islands airports; El Hierro, […]
July 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Air France returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years (it last served the airport in October 2001) when it began service from Paris CDG on Tuesday 6 July. Initially operating 4-weekly using an A319, frequency is set to increase to daily by the end of July. The inaugural service (flight number AF 1070 […]
July 10, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Fresh from launching its first ever flights to Burgas in Bulgaria the previous day, easyJet operated its first ever service to Toulon in the south of France on Monday 28 June. The flight (U2 3727 operated by an A320 registered OE-IVN) arrived from Paris CDG at 16:52 local time, eight minutes ahead of schedule. The […]
July 1, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, Latest Route News +
A recently published statistical report for 2020 from UAF (Union des Aéroports Francais) revealed that across all French metropolitan airports (those in mainland France and Corsica) passenger numbers were down 68.4%, from 201.38m in 2019 to 63.67m last year. The number of airports that handled more than one million passengers fell from 17 in 2019 […]
May 17, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis