Air Serbia introduced flights between Belgrade and Lisbon on Saturday 15 March, marking its first service to Portugal. The 2,520-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the A320 aircraft. Although the airline currently faces no competition on the route, Wizz Air will commence its own 2-weekly flights between the two cities […]
April 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Unlike Ryanair and Wizz Air, who have both increased their market share of European air travel since 2019, easyJet’s share has remained virtually unchanged at around 7.5%. This still makes it Europe’s second biggest carrier, well ahead of Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for 2023 Q2 indicated that easyJet’s […]
March 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One has collected October passenger figures for almost 250 airports across Europe, including the vast majority of major airports. These can be found in our free to download EATS (European Airport Traffic Statistics) file on the Air Service One homepage. We have identified all major airports reporting over one million passengers in October […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis by Air Service One, suggests that the first week (30 October to 5 November) of the northern hemisphere winter season (W22/23) has seen the launch of at least 168 new airline routes involving at least one airport in Europe (not including Russia). However, it is possible that we may have missed a few, and […]
November 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
As revealed in last week’s lead story, both easyJet and Ryanair are currently seeing significantly lower capacity recovery figures for November 2022 than for August 2022 (when compared with the same months in 2019). However, while Ryanair’s November capacity is still 13% higher than in 2019, analysis of Cirium schedule data shows that easyJet is […]
September 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
TAP Portugal on Saturday 11 December began a new route to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The 6,100-kilometre sector from Lisbon will operate 3-weekly (on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays) during the winter season, using the Star Alliance member’s A330-900s. The route is also set to operate next summer, but only 2-weekly at present. Iberojet […]
December 13, 2021 | Latest Route News +
For the fourth straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in October, handling almost 4.4 million passengers. However, that is still 30% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was again another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport again welcomed over 3.8 million passengers, a decline of just 7% […]
November 30, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story