Volotea introduced flights between Lille and Patras, in western Greece, on Wednesday 16 April. The 2,000-kilometre service will be maintained weekly with the 180-seat A320 aircraft. The LCC faces no competition between the two cities. Flight V72648 departs Lille at 07:25 local time, arriving in Patras at 11:20 local time. The return service, operating as flight […]
April 28, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Volotea added seasonal flights between Lille and Comiso on Tuesday 8 April. The 1,765-kilometre service will be maintained weekly with the A320 aircraft. The LCC faces no competition on the route. Flight V72044 departs Lille at 07:00 local time, arriving in Comiso at 09:50. The return service, operating as flight V72045, takes off from the […]
April 16, 2025 | Latest Route News +
French regional carrier Twin Jet rarely receives attention. According to the airline’s website, it has 13 Beech 1900s, each with 19 seats. The rare type is even less common in Europe. Cirium shows that 99% of the airline’s operations are on weekdays while 1% is on Sundays. There are no flights on Saturdays. This chimes […]
September 19, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea has introduced two new non-stop services to France from its Venice VCE base. Flights to Nice began on 21 October followed on 24 October by flights to Lille. Both routes have a handful of flights now until the end of the first week of November. Service then resumes from mid-December to early January, before […]
November 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Volotea now has two Airbus aircraft based at Lille. The carrier based its first aircraft at the French airport on 1 April of this year, although it has been serving the airport since June 2012. In the pre-pandemic summer of 2019, it was offering flights to just four domestic destinations; Montpellier, plus three airports in […]
July 13, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Volotea (IATA code V7) made Varna in Bulgaria the newest destination on its network when it launched weekly service from Lille in France on Tuesday 17 May. The 2,040-kilometre route faces no competition and will be flown using the airline’s A319s every Tuesday until 4 October. According to Cirium data, back in the summer of […]
May 24, 2022 | Latest Route News +
On 5 April 2022, Volotea celebrated ten years of successfully flying people between Europe’s medium-sized cities. Despite being headquartered in Barcelona, the airline’s first base was at Venice Marco Polo Airport in Italy, with the first flights on 5 April 2012 being to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. Since then, the carrier has gone on to […]
April 7, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to analysis of Cirium data, Volotea’s scheduled seat capacity during the second half of 2021 was up 14% compared with the second half of 2019. This equates to an additional 685,000 seats. For comparison, among Europe’s top 50 airlines, the next best performing carrier in western Europe was Transavia (the Dutch and French parts […]
February 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Spanish carrier Binter Canarias (IATA code NT) is, as the name suggests, focussed on serving the Spanish Canary Islands. In July 2019, the vast majority of its flights connected five airports in the Canary Islands; Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife TFN. It also offered service from three other Canary Islands airports; El Hierro, […]
July 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis