The United States to Europe is by far the world’s largest long-haul market. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 3,903-weekly one-way flights this August (about 558 daily). They have risen by 1.7% versus the same week in 2019. Some 320 airport pairs and 466 routes are served in this all-important month. Much has […]
May 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Analysis of the latest Cirium airline schedule data indicates that capacity between Europe and all regions outside of Europe is down just 2% in 2023 Q2 versus 2019 Q2. However, this apparent stability hides a number of significant changes at a country, airline and airport level. The US is still by far the biggest country […]
May 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Aer Lingus launched operations between Knock and London LHR, replacing the previously served London LGW, on Sunday 26 March. The 625-kilometre route is maintained daily with A320 aircraft. The Irish carrier faces no competition between the two airports. The move to Heathrow will provide greater connectivity to passengers transferring onto Aer Lingus’ IAG partner British Airways. […]
March 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Airport data collected for 2022 reveals that Europe’s six busiest airports all handled at least 48 million passengers last year. Istanbul IST led the way with 64.3 million followed by London LHR (61.6m), Paris CDG (57.5m), Amsterdam (52.5m), Madrid (50.6m) and Frankfurt (48.9m). Seventh placed Barcelona was some way behind with 41.6m passengers while eighth […]
March 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
In 2019 London’s Heathrow Airport was Europe’s busiest, welcoming 80.9m passengers. This was almost five million more than Paris CDG (76.2m) and nine million more than third ranked Amsterdam (71.7m). However, UK air travel was more severely impacted than other European countries when the pandemic struck in 2020 and Heathrow slipped to third that year […]
February 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in County Mayo, Ireland West Airport Knock is one of six airports in the country to have airline service. Knock ended 2022 with 722,000 passengers, according to its own statistics. While that was 10% below 2019 – its best year to date – it was still its fifth best year on record, albeit its […]
February 7, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
Located about 45 kilometres from Milan and well placed for the Italian Lakes and Alps, Milan Bergamo (IATA code BGY) is Italy’s third-busiest airport. With a catchment of ten million people in 90 minutes, it has grown enormously recently, with seat capacity up by 6% this year over 2019 – no mean feat. Multiple new […]
November 3, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
JetBlue has launched its fourth transatlantic route on Tuesday 20 September with the introduction of daily flights between Boston and London LHR. Flight B6 1620 will depart Boston at 18:17 each evening, arriving in London at 06:30 local time the following morning. The return flight (B6 1621) departs Heathrow at 08:25 and arrives back at […]
September 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Oman Air is not the biggest Middle Eastern airline, but it plays an important role in developing Oman’s ambitions as a business and leisure destination. Pre-pandemic the airline was serving 10 European destinations with non-stop flights from Muscat, the country’s capital. These were: Athens: 5-weekly Frankfurt: daily Istanbul IST: daily London LHR: 2-daily Manchester: daily […]
September 21, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
New York is by far the biggest US market from the UK, as confirmed in our recent story looking at the London-Boston market. The market welcomed a new carrier on 12 August when Norse Atlantic Airways began daily service between London LGW and New York JFK using 787-9s, formerly operated by Norwegian. Between 2004 and […]
August 19, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
After three weeks of July, Air Service One has now collected June passenger data for over 220 airports across Europe. As a result, we can reveal which countries have seen the highest recovery rate in passenger demand compared with June 2019. Among the biggest European country markets for air travel we have insufficient data for […]
July 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis