TUI welcomed 11.30 million passengers last year with an 89% load factor, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While traffic was 4% lower than in 2019, it was still its third best year since 2008. To put the recovery into context, TUI had 1.73 million passengers last August, just 293,000 fewer than the whole […]
March 1, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
British Airways (BA) has been London LGW’s second biggest short-haul operator since 2008, when it was overtaken by primary competitor easyJet. According to Cirium schedules information data, BA had 1.3 million one-way, short-haul seats across Europe and North Africa from Gatwick in 2022, having only resumed short-haul operations from the airport at the start of […]
January 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Europe to Vietnam had 2.8 million two-way passengers in pre-coronavirus 2019. Germany, Russia, France, the UK and the Netherlands were the largest markets. Three-quarters flew with sixth-freedom operators, especially Emirates, Qatar Airways, Aeroflot, Turkish Airlines and Thai Airways. Despite strong non-stop capacity growth until the pandemic, it was – and remains – conspicuously underserved by […]
December 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Transat has become the first carrier in at least 20 years to offer non-stop service between Québec City and London, with the launch of a weekly service on 11 May. Flights depart the Canadian city every Wednesday (at 23:55 local time) until 28 September using the airline’s new 199-seat A321neos. Departures from Gatwick Airport […]
May 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The first day of February marked the 20th anniversary of the start of easyJet opening a base at London LGW. Over the years Gatwick not only became the airline’s biggest base, but it also usurped British Airways as the biggest carrier at the airport. Prior to Gatwick becoming a base on 1 February 2002, easyJet […]
February 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
During a presentation at FITUR 22 in Madrid earlier this week, Vueling confirmed that its summer 2022 capacity will be comparable with that offered in summer 2019, and that it will be operating over 320 routes (100 domestic and 220 international) across 30 countries. The airline also revealed that it would be launching five additional […]
January 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Well that was quick. Having announced on 22 December that it acquired enough slots from Norwegian to justify basing four additional A321neos at Gatwick next summer, the following day Wizz Air announced the 14 new routes that it would be adding from the start of the summer season. Details of the new routes, launch dates, […]
December 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Having basically abandoned its second London hub at Gatwick at the start of the pandemic, British Airways (BA) has announced that it will be resuming short-haul services from the airport next summer, but only after negotiating new deals with unions to drive down costs. This will, hopefully, make the UK flag-carrier more competitive with easyJet, […]
December 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story