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
Jet2.com introduced a new seasonal route on Thursday 20 July from its Bristol base to Malaga. The 1,640-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly, on Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays with the 189-seat 737-800 aircraft. The leisure carrier faces strong competition on the route. These include 17-weekly rotations by easyJet, 8-weekly Ryanair operations and 2-weekly services by TUI Airways. Jet2.com […]
July 26, 2023 | Latest Route News +
United has continued to expand its footprint in Europe with the introduction of seasonal flights between New York EWR and Malaga on Wednesday 31 May. The 5,920-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with the 169-seat 757 aircraft. The Star Alliance member faces no competition on the route. Flight UA350 departs New […]
June 7, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Norwegian on Saturday 1 April began a new, weekly seasonal service between Vaxjo, in South Sweden, and Malaga. The 2,665-kilometre route will be maintained with a mix of 737-800 and 737 MAX aircraft. It becomes the only international service maintained by Norwegian from a regional airport in Sweden. Flight D85057 departs the Swedish city a 10:30 local time, arriving […]
April 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Flyr, the recently launched Norwegian carrier, launched its first international routes from Oslo on Saturday 21 August. Service was launched to Alicante (Saturdays), Malaga (Saturdays and Sundays) and Nice (Saturdays and Sundays). All three routes are currently served by both Norwegian and SAS with significantly higher frequencies. Although the Nice and Malaga routes were launched […]
August 24, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Malaga has become a seasonal base for easyJet. Although this happened operationally on 1 June, the event was not celebrated until one week later. According to the airline, Malaga has welcomed more easyJet passengers than any other airport that is not already an easyJet base. It joins Barcelona (year-round) and Palma de Mallorca (also summer […]