Similar to last month, it was a relatively quiet period for new route launches in North America. Without the growing number of new services to the new Mexico City NLU airport it would have been even quieter. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 30 new routes that launched in North America during the last […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Between Sunday 3 July and Saturday 9 July, Air Service One has identified: 87 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 35 airlines involving 112 airports Wizz Air (14) and Air France (nine) launched the most new routes 30 (34%) were already served by other carriers, 57 (66%) were not 30 countries […]
July 11, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
Air travel demand in the US during the last four weeks was stable at around 90% of the level seen during the same period in 2019. Given that capacity levels appear to also be at around 90%, this suggests that airline load factors are comparable with what they were back in 2019. Air Service One […]
May 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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 […]
The sixth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 1 May to Saturday 7 May) saw the launch of 143 new routes involving European airports. The start of a new month seems to have been a popular time to introduce a raft of new, mostly leisure routes, involving many new connections […]
May 9, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The fifth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 24 April to Saturday 30 April) saw the launch of 22 new routes involving European airports. This included the revived Flybe launching an additional five routes (including its first international services to Amsterdam), Aer Lingus Regional and PLAY both starting new routes […]
May 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The fourth week of the summer 2022 (S22) season saw the launch of 17 new routes involving European airports. This included the first US service (to Baltimore/Washington) from Iceland’s newest airline PLAY, the return of Condor to Athens after a gap of over 20 years, and Transavia launching several low-frequency leisure routes. United also added […]
April 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week was the second week of the summer 2022 (S22) season which had started on Sunday 27 March. After celebrating the launch of over 300 new routes during the first week, the following week has seen airlines launch a further 53 new routes according to our analysis. This contributed to the 7-day average recovery […]
April 11, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air travel demand in the US during the last week was relatively stable at around 90% of the level seen during the same period in 2019. Given that capacity levels appear to also be at around 90%, this suggests that airline load factors are comparable with what they were back in 2019. Air Service One […]
April 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
For the third week in a row, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) improved during the last seven days. The 7-day average, as of Saturday 19 February, was 70.3%, up only 0.6 percentage points from the previous week. […]
February 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
After a dramatic drop in the recovery rate of European flights two weeks ago, last week saw a less dramatic fall, with signs of stabilisation by the end of the week. Analysis of Eurocontrol data for last week shows that as of 22 January, the seven-day moving average for flights was down 35.0% versus 2019. […]
January 24, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story