Virgin Atlantic inaugurated a new long-haul service on Saturday 4 November between London LHR and Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago. The 6,895-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the 258-seat 787-9 aircraft. The airline faces no competition. The service continues from Providenciales to Montego Bay. Flight VS163 […]
November 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
British Airways introduced operations between London LHR and Belgrade on Tuesday 31 October, marking its return to the Serbian market after 13 years. The airline will maintain 3-weekly flights between the two capitals, on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, with the A320 aircraft. It will compete directly against Air Serbia’s daily rotation on the route, as […]
November 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Virgin Atlantic introduced flights between London LHR and Malé, the capital of the Maldives, on Sunday 22 October. The 8,535-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays departing London LHR, with the 258-seat 787-9 aircraft. It will compete directly against British Airways’ 4-weekly rotations on the route, which will increase to daily […]
October 24, 2023 | Latest Route News +
China Southern launched flights between Beijing PKX and London LHR on Wednesday 7 June. The 8,215-kilometre service will be maintained daily with the 314-seat A350-900 aircraft. It competes directly against British Airways’ 4-weekly flights between the two airports. Flight CZ673 departs Beijing PKX at 11:15 local time, arriving at London LHR at 15:45 local time. […]
June 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
British Airways introduced its latest destination in the United States on Monday 5 June by adding flights between London LHR and Cincinnati. The 6,380-kilometre service will be maintained 5-weekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, using the 214-seat 787-8 aircraft. The oneworld member faces no competition on the route. London and Cincinnati were last […]
June 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Scottish regional carrier Loganair commenced operations between London LHR and City of Derry on Saturday 6 May, linking the two airports for the first time. The 600-kilometre service will be operated 19-weekly with the 49-seat ERJ-145. The airline faces no competition on the government-supported Public Service Obligation (PSO) route. It previously flew from London STN […]
May 15, 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
British Airways inaugurated seasonal flights between London Heathrow and Florence on Sunday 16 April with its A320neo aircraft. The 1,220-kilometre service will be maintained daily with no direct competition on the route. Flight BA524 departs London Heathrow at 8:10 local time, arriving in Florence at 11:20 local time. The return service, operating as BA525, takes […]
April 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
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