After three weeks of July, Air Service One has now collected June passenger data for over 220 airports across Europe. As a result, we can reveal which countries have seen the highest recovery rate in passenger demand compared with June 2019. Among the biggest European country markets for air travel we have insufficient data for […]
July 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
British Airways began service to its latest US destination on Friday 3 June, when it added 5-weekly service from London LHR to Portland in Oregon. The 7,910-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of four-class, 787-8s. Since January 2000, Portland has had the following non-stop services to Europe: Lufthansa to Frankfurt: April 2003 […]
June 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The seventh week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 8 May to Saturday 14 May) saw the launch of 27 new routes involving European airports, down from 143 in the previous week. Highlights included the launch of flights to the new Rize-Artvin Airport in Turkey; Icelandair and PLAY both starting two […]
May 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Bamboo Airways (IATA code QH) has started service between Hanoi in Vietnam and London LHR, with the first flight (QH 23) arriving in the UK capital on Tuesday 22 March at 17:13 local time. The flight time of the inaugural service was 12 hours and 39 minutes, with the airline’s 787-9 (of which it currently […]
March 24, 2022 | Latest Route News +
After five successive weeks of improvement, analysis of Eurocontrol data shows that the recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) fell last week. The 7-day average, as of Saturday 12 March, was 73.9%, down one full percentage point from the previous week’s figure of 74.9%. One […]
March 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the third straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in September, handling just over four million passengers. However, that is still 39% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was again another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 3.8 million passengers, mostly tourists, a decline of […]
October 28, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
British Airways on 21 October began connecting London LHR with Antalya, currently Europe’s second busiest airport. The service is operating 4-weekly, but only until 31 October according to both Cirium Data and Analytics schedule information and the airline’s own on-line booking tool. Despite this, the new service was still welcomed by the Turkish airport with […]
October 25, 2021 | Latest Route News +