Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated its third UK route on 21 November with the launch of Addis Ababa to London LGW. It is served 3-weekly using the A350-900, the carrier’s aircraft of choice to Europe. It marks the first time since 2008 that the 5,880-kilometre airport pair has been served. Copenhagen, London LGW and Madrid added this year […]
November 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Located in Newfoundland and Labrador in Atlantic Canada, St. John’s welcomed about 1.1 million passengers in 2022. Using Cirium schedules data shows that St John’s is the country’s 15th busiest airport based on departing seats in 2023. Capacity has risen by approximately 8% year-on-year. While the recovery versus 2019 continues, it will be helped by […]
November 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Air China is one of 25 passenger airlines with non-stop flights between China and Europe this August, based on Cirium schedules information data. It has 125 weekly departures and 29.1% of the total, although they remain down by a quarter versus 2019. However, partly because it continues to overfly Russia rather than undertaking more costly […]
August 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
If all the units that comprise Wizz Air are combined, the Group is the eighth-largest operator serving the UK in August, based on Cirium schedule information. Wizz Air has 613 weekly one-way flights in this vitally important month, most by its original Hungary unit (289), then Wizz Air UK (245) and finally its Maltese AOC […]
August 7, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Norse Atlantic’s first commercial flight was on 14 June 2022 from Oslo to New York JFK. Between then and May 2023, the long-haul operator transported approximately 512,000 scheduled passengers. Consisting of two units – the original Norwegian entity (IATA code N0) and the UK subsidiary (Z0) – they have 10 Boeing 787s. Five others are […]
July 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The UK is India’s largest second-largest long-haul market by passenger traffic, behind the US. In 2019, approximately 3.5 million point-to-point passengers flew to/from the UK. While that reduced to around 3.1 million last year, it still had more than 8,000 passengers daily. Invariably, many travelled indirectly, especially through the Middle East to secondary destinations. They […]
April 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story