Air Europa (including Air Europa Express) is Spain’s third-largest carrier after Iberia and Vueling. According to Planespotters.net, the two units have 50 aircraft: 27 737-800s, 11 787-8s and 12 787-9s, with 737 MAX 8s coming. Cirium tells that Air Europa is the fourth-largest carrier serving Spain by winter seats behind Ryanair, Vueling and Iberia. However, […]
December 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
China Eastern Airlines introduced flights between Wenzhou, in China’s east, and Madrid, on Wednesday 22 November, marking the carrier’s second route to the Spanish capital. The 10,515-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the 286-seat A350-900 aircraft. The SkyTeam member faces no competition between the two cities. Flight MU261 departs Wenzhou […]
November 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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 […]
Spain is Europe’s fourth largest country by long-haul non-stop capacity this year, defined as any routes over 5,000 kilometres but excluding anywhere in Europe. Only the UK, France and Germany are larger. According to Cirium schedules information, Spain has about 10.4 million such seats, equivalent to one in 11 of Europe’s total. The country’s capacity […]
October 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Iberia Express’ first commercial flight was in 2012. Some 11 years later, the low-cost subsidiary (LCS) has 28 A320ceos, A321ceos and A321neos, according to Planespotters.net. Its network remains almost entirely from the Spanish capital, Madrid. The only exceptions this summer are seasonal services from Asturias and Vigo to the Canary Islands. Iberia Express plays a […]
September 25, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Beijing Capital Airlines launched flights between Hangzhou, in eastern China, and Madrid on Sunday 27 August. The 10,290-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Sundays with the 255-seat A330-200 aircraft. It faces no competition on the route. Flight JD361 departs Hangzhou at 23:55 local time, arriving in Madrid at 08:25 local time the […]
August 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Avianca launched a new seasonal long-haul service between San Salvador and Madrid on Tuesday June 20. The 8,765-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with a wet-leased A330-200 from Spain’s Wamos Air. The airline will compete directly against Iberia’s 6-weekly flights between the two cities. Avianca will maintain operations on the […]
June 26, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Airport data collected for 2022 reveals that Europe’s six busiest airports all handled at least 48 million passengers last year. Istanbul IST led the way with 64.3 million followed by London LHR (61.6m), Paris CDG (57.5m), Amsterdam (52.5m), Madrid (50.6m) and Frankfurt (48.9m). Seventh placed Barcelona was some way behind with 41.6m passengers while eighth […]
March 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cuba has welcomed its latest route from Europe. On 11 November, Spain’s charter carrier Iberojet introduced a weekly operation from Madrid to Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second city. It joins Cubana on the 7,120-kilometre route. Six Cuban airports have European flights Six airports in Cuba have flights to Europe this winter, down from eight […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Passenger data for July from Aena reveals that Spain’s airports handled just over 27 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 16 airports (all of which handled at least 350,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Leading […]
August 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Kuwait Airways is currently the 12th biggest carrier between Europe and the Middle East as measured by available seats in July 2022. It ranks just behind Wizz Air and Ryanair (which serves Amman and Tel Aviv) but ahead of Royal Jordanian, Gulf Air and Oman Air. While total seat capacity between the two regions is […]
July 26, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis