Volotea launched three new services to Hamburg on Tuesday 10 October from Bordeaux, Florence and Lyon. The trio of routes will be maintained 2-weekly respectively with a mix of A319 and A320 aircraft. Flights from Bordeaux and Lyon will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays, while Florence will be served on Tuesdays and Saturdays. None of […]
October 12, 2023 | Latest Route News +
French regional carrier Twin Jet rarely receives attention. According to the airline’s website, it has 13 Beech 1900s, each with 19 seats. The rare type is even less common in Europe. Cirium shows that 99% of the airline’s operations are on weekdays while 1% is on Sundays. There are no flights on Saturdays. This chimes […]
September 19, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
easyJet launched a new service between Lyon and Prague on Monday 4 September. The 840-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the 156-seat A319 aircraft. The LCC will compete directly against Volotea’s 2-weekly rotation. What they said Manuel Guening, Manager for Corporate Communications at easyJet, said: “This new connection offers Lyonnais […]
September 7, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways introduced a new destination in France on Monday 3 July by launching flights between Doha and Lyon. The 4,955-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays with the 254-seat 787-8 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the route. Flight QR51 departs Doha at 08:25 local time, arriving in […]
July 12, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways has 1,880 departing passenger flights each week from its Doha hub in August, based on Cirium schedules information. Some 522 are to Europe, making it the airline’s second-largest region behind Asia-Pacific. Europe accounts for just over one in four flights (27.8%), down by almost nine percentage points versus August 2019. Europe remains by […]
easyJet introduced a new domestic service within France on Monday 17 April by launching flights between Lyon and La Rochelle. The 490-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, using the A319 aircraft. Frequencies will be reduced to 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, during July and August. The LCC faces no competition […]
April 21, 2023 | Latest Route News +
easyJet launched its last new route of 2022 on Tuesday 20 December. That was the start date for its new 2-weekly service between Lyon and Funchal. The 2,370-kilometre route will be flown on Tuesdays and Saturdays until the end of June, and then weekly (Tuesdays) in July and August, before reverting to 2-weekly from September […]
January 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Twin Jet (IATA code T7) on Thursday 1 December began non-stop service between Lyon and Bologna. The 510-kilometre route will be served Monday to Friday using 19-seat Beechcraft 1900Ds. The route was most recently served 6-weekly by Air France until the end of October 2022 using Embraer E170s operated by HOP! Pre-pandemic the route was […]
December 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
This winter, 49 African countries have non-stop or one-stop flights to European airports, based on Cirium schedules data information. When non-sub-Saharan states are removed, South Africa has more Europe capacity than any other. In seventh place is Senegal, with 651,000 two-way Europe seats, more than Nigeria. Senegal’s European capacity has risen by 10% versus W19, […]
November 16, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
France has always been a large and critical market for easyJet. This year, the country has 21.2 million easyJet seats, making it second only to the UK by capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. With the change to winter schedules has come another new airport for easyJet in France. It started service to Paris BVA, […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Royal Jordanian can trace its origins back to 1963, which means that it will celebrate its 60th anniversary next year. Based in Amman, the capital of Jordan, the airline currently has a fleet of 24 active passenger aircraft according to planespotters.net. This comprises seven 787s, 13 A320-series aircraft and four Embraer E-jets (two ERJ-170s and […]
October 6, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, Top Story
Transavia (IATA code TO) continues to develop its international network from French regional airports with the latest new route being between Lyon and Stockholm ARN. A weekly (Saturday) service began on 29 January and is set to operate until 16 April 2022. The fact that the route is not operating during the summer suggests that […]
February 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +