Air Service One has identified 15 European flag-carriers that operate a mix of narrow-body (NB) and wide-body (WB) aircraft, and plan to operate at least 1,000 flights with WB aircraft in 2023 Q2. Typically, WB aircraft tend to be used primarily on long-haul, intercontinental services. This analysis, using Cirium schedules data, compares the capacity (seat) […]
April 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Excluding the Russian domestic market, Poland had more passengers this summer than any other country across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Airport data collected by Air Service One for April-September shows that 11 of Poland’s busiest airports had 25.0 million passengers, down 12% versus 2019. Poland’s traffic was double that of Romania, the CEE’s second-largest […]
December 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
LOT Polish Airlines added a new domestic route on Sunday 10 July when it began 2-weekly service from Gdansk to Zielona Góra. The 335-kilometre route will be flown on Thursdays and Sundays, until 2 October, using the Star Alliance carrier’s Q400s and faces no competition. LOT already serves Zielona Góra 6-weekly from Warsaw, and also […]
July 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
LOT Polish Airlines introduced a new domestic route on Friday 17 June. The Star Alliance member now connects Rzeszów and Olsztyn-Mazury 2-weekly using its Q400s. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday until 5 September. The 380-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier. Rzeszów has Ryanair and Wizz Air flights Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport lies […]
June 23, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Not many European airports managed to set passenger records during the summer of 2021, but Tirana Airport, serving the Albanian capital, was one of them. Traffic at the airport had grown from under one million annual passengers in 2006 to over three million in 2019, having seen traffic growth in every year between those two […]
March 10, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
On 26 September, LOT Polish Airlines began 3-weekly service on the 4,160-kilometre route between its home base in Warsaw and Dubai in the UAE. The inaugural service (flight number LO 121 operated by a Boeing 737 MAX 8, registration SP-LVA) departed Warsaw WAW at 08:21 and touched down in Dubai five hours and 22 minutes […]
September 30, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Poland’s politicians will benefit from a new service launched by LOT Polish Airlines on Monday 5 July between Warsaw WAW and Strasbourg in France. According to Cirium Data and Analytics, the service to Strasbourg operates on 5 July, 13 September, 4 October, 22 November and 13 December, while return flights take place on Thursdays; on […]
July 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Maybe to the surprise of many, Europe’s financially-challenged flag-carriers have, between them, started some 300 new routes since the pre-pandemic summer of 2019. However, analysis by The ANKER Report of schedule information from Cirium Data and Analytics of 23 airlines operating from 26 airports, shows that these same airlines have currently suspended around 700 routes […]
Krakow in Poland became the latest European airport to have a non-stop service to New York JFK, when the first flight (LO 19 operated by Boeing 787-8 registration SP-LRG) departed the Polish airport at 13:06 on Saturday 26 June. Just over eight hours later, the aircraft arrived in the US at 15:14 local time, according […]
June 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +
While getting aviation traffic flows restarted does not appear to have been a major topic of conversation for the leaders of the G7 nations during their meeting in the somewhat unlikely setting of Cornwall in the south-west of the UK, airlines have been showing some signs of recovery during the last four weeks. Not only […]
June 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story