Sichuan Airlines introduced flights between its Chengdu hub and Istanbul IST on Wednesday 21 June, marking the route’s resumption following a three-year hiatus. The service will operate 2-weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays, with the 301-seat A330-300 aircraft. It faces no competition on the route. Flight 3U3827 departs Chengdu at 01:25 local time, arriving in Istanbul […]
June 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Turkish Airlines launched flights between its Istanbul IST hub and Palermo on Friday 5 May. The 1,380-kilometre service becomes the carrier’s ninth destination in Italy and will be served 4-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 737-800 aircraft. Turkish Airlines faces no competition on the route. Palermo joins the Turkish flag carrier’s existing […]
May 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Turkish Airlines has added its second destination in Poland with the introduction of flights between Istanbul IST and Krakow. The 1,200-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with the 151-seat 737-900 aircraft. It will go up against 3-weekly flights by fellow Star Alliance member LOT, which itself commenced operations on the […]
May 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
airBaltic (IATA code BT) inaugurated the first of twenty new routes for the summer with the introduction of seasonal flights between Riga and Istanbul IST on Sunday 2 April. The 1,775-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 148-seat A220-300. It competes against Turkish Airlines’ 10-weekly service on the […]
April 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air introduced flights between Budapest and Istanbul IST on Friday 31 March as part of its expansion onto the Turkish market. The 1,020-kilometre service is being maintained daily with the A321 and competes against Turkish Airlines’ 21-weekly flights. What they said Balazs Bogats, Airline Development Director at Budapest Airport, said: “Turkey is our fifth […]
April 3, 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
Arkia on 26 February introduced a 4-weekly service between its hub in Tel Aviv and Istanbul IST. The 1,165-kilometre route is operated each Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with the airline’s E195 aircraft, as well as the A321neo on select dates. The airline will expand its presence in Turkey with the introduction of flights between […]
March 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
flyadeal (IATA code F3) has landed in Istanbul IST becoming the Turkish hub’s 82nd airline. There are now 4-weekly flights from both Jeddah and Riyadh using the Saudi LCC’s A320s. Both routes will be served on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. According to Cirium schedules data, direct competition on the Jeddah-Istanbul IST route comes from […]
November 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Turkish Airlines has launched a new service to the US with the introduction on Friday 27 May of 4-weekly service between Istanbul IST and Seattle in the state of Washington. The 9,770-kilometre route will be flown using the Star Alliance member’s 300-seat 787-9s. Flights depart Istanbul every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 14:05 local […]
June 7, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
March passenger data has been collected for over 200 airports across Europe, including all airports in several major markets. Among countries with multiple airports, Portugal leads the way for traffic recovery with demand last month at 84% of the figure reported in pre-pandemic March 2019. Lisbon traffic was at 80%, Faro at 87%, Porto at […]
April 28, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story