The start of the northern hemisphere W22/23 season began yesterday, Sunday 30 October. During the first seven days of the new season, Air Service One estimates that almost 200 new airline services will be launched involving at least one airport in Europe. However, the four weeks prior to the start of the winter season (2-29 […]
October 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
It has been a quiet few weeks for airline route launches across Europe. Between Sunday 7 August and Saturday 3 September, we have identified just 11 new airline services. Of these six were from Norse Atlantic Airways with its fleet of 787-9s. The new routes included the airline’s first US flights from London LGW (to […]
September 5, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Between Sunday 10 July and Saturday 16 July, Air Service One has identified: 42 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 19 airlines involving 58 airports. Aeroitalia and Volotea launched the most new routes with seven each. Then came Helvetic with five and Air France with four. 12 (29%) were already served […]
July 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Between Sunday 26 June and Saturday 2 July, Air Service One has identified: 107 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 34 airlines involving 121 airports easyJet (25) and Corendon Airlines (16) launched the most, new routes 46 (43%) were already served by other carriers, 61 (57%) were not 29 countries involved […]
July 5, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis by Air Service One suggests that the 13th week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 19 June to Saturday 25 June) saw airlines launch a total of 40 new routes involving European airports, down from 78 in the previous week. Highlight of the week was the launch on 22 June […]
June 27, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis by Air Service One suggests that the 10th week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 29 May to Saturday 4 June) saw airlines launch a total of 133 new routes involving European airports, up from 57 in the previous week. Highlights included new transatlantic routes from British Airways, Delta, Finnair, […]
June 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
The ninth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 22 May to Saturday 28 May) saw the launch of 57 new routes involving European airports, up from 42 in the previous week. Highlights included new transatlantic routes from Condor, Delta, Eurowings Discover, Turkish Airlines and Virgin Atlantic, as well as new […]
May 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
With the start of the summer 2022 (S22) season on Sunday 27 March, many of Europe’s major airlines have seen a significant improvement in their recovery rate. As a result, the 7-day average recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) as of Saturday 2 April, was […]
April 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week saw little change in the rate of airline recovery based on analysis of Eurocontrol data. The 7-day average recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) as of Saturday 19 March, was 74.0%, up just 0.1 percentage point from the previous week’s figure of 73.9%. […]
March 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
After five successive weeks of improvement, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) fell last week. The 7-day average, as of Saturday 12 March, was 73.9%, down one full percentage point from the previous week’s figure of 74.9%. One […]
March 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Finally, after falling for the three previous weeks, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in pre-pandemic 2019) improved during the last seven days. The 7-day average had fallen from 68.5% on 15 January to just 62.9% on 29 January. However, […]
February 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Eurocontrol data for last week shows a steep drop in European flight operations compared with the previous week. As of 15 January, the seven-day moving average for flights was down 31.3% versus 2019. A week earlier, on 8 January, flights had been down 21.4%. That’s an alarming drop in just one week, reflecting […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis