Spain is Europe’s fourth largest country by long-haul non-stop capacity this year, defined as any routes over 5,000 kilometres but excluding anywhere in Europe. Only the UK, France and Germany are larger. According to Cirium schedules information, Spain has about 10.4 million such seats, equivalent to one in 11 of Europe’s total. The country’s capacity […]
October 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Iberia Express’ first commercial flight was in 2012. Some 11 years later, the low-cost subsidiary (LCS) has 28 A320ceos, A321ceos and A321neos, according to Planespotters.net. Its network remains almost entirely from the Spanish capital, Madrid. The only exceptions this summer are seasonal services from Asturias and Vigo to the Canary Islands. Iberia Express plays a […]
September 25, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Located nearly halfway down Spain’s long coastline, Valencia is the country’s third most populous city and metro area. While less ‘touristy’ than better known cities and destinations, it has grown enormously recently. According to Aena figures, passengers exceeded one million for the first time in the airport’s history. Traffic rose by more than a fifth […]
August 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One has identified 15 European flag-carriers that operate a mix of narrow-body (NB) and wide-body (WB) aircraft, and plan to operate at least 1,000 flights with WB aircraft in 2023 Q2. Typically, WB aircraft tend to be used primarily on long-haul, intercontinental services. This analysis, using Cirium schedules data, compares the capacity (seat) […]
April 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Located by the Bay of Biscay on the north coast of Spain, Santander is the capital of the Cantabria region. According to Aena traffic figures, the airport had 1.10 million passengers in 2022, down by a modest 6.0% versus 2019. Key was Ryanair, by far the biggest carrier at the airport. Since its first Santander […]
March 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to figures published by Aena, Spain’s airports welcomed almost 244 million passengers in 2022. That is only 12% fewer than the 275 million achieved in 2019. More impressively, in the last quarter of 2022, passenger numbers were down just 3% compared with the same period three years earlier. While traffic for the whole of […]
January 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in northern Spain, the Principality of Asturias is part of the so-called Green Spain, a far cry from the stereotypical dry and hot southern Spain. A mountainous area, the principality is served by Asturias Airport. It welcomed 1.45m passengers in 2022, according to Aena data. Asturias traffic rose by 2.6% versus 2019, helped by […]
January 16, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The winter period is always difficult for Europe’s airlines. Profits are hard to come by and this winter the industry faces the additional challenges of Russia’s war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and concerns about a possible recession. This week we take a closer look at which routes western Europe’s major legacy carriers have added […]
December 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
As previously noted, the Europe-Asia market is recovering more slowly than many other inter-continental markets. There are several reasons for this. China’s zero tolerance approach to COVID has resulted in extreme travel restrictions on passengers. As a result, seat capacity between Europe and China is still down over 95% according to Cirium data for September. […]
September 14, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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