Serving a great slice of northern England, Manchester welcomed 24.2 million passengers in the first 10 months of 2023. This included 2.6 million in October, up by more than 5% versus the same month in 2019. It was the first month to have seen traffic exceed pre-pandemic levels. Not surprisingly, the airport’s own statistics shows […]
November 30, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
EGYPTAIR launched operations to its second destination in the United Kingdom on Saturday 15 July by inaugurating flights between Cairo and Manchester. The 3,745-kilometre service will be maintained 5-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays with the 154-seat 737-800 aircraft. The Star Alliance member faces no competition on the route. The Egyptian flag carrier […]
July 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
easyJet has increased its presence at Belfast’s downtown airport with the addition of two new domestic routes. On 26 June the UK-based LCC began 4-weekly service to Belfast BHD from both London LTN and Manchester. The 480-kilometre route from Luton is not served by any other carrier and was last served by easyJet in 2011. […]
July 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
TUI Airways introduced two new routes from the UK to Ohrid in North Macedonia during the last week of May. These include services between London LGW and Ohrid, as well as between Manchester and Ohrid, both of which were inaugurated on Wednesday 31 May. The 1,950-kilometre route from London LGW and the 2,190-kilometre service from […]
June 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Jet2.com introduced a seasonal service between Manchester and Tivat on Monday 1 May, marking the airline’s entry onto the Montenegrin market. The 1,975-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Thursdays with the 737-800 aircraft. Jet2.com faces no competition. The service was initially scheduled to launch in S20 but was delayed due to the […]
May 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Belfast BHD (known locally as George Best Belfast City Airport) ended 2022 with 1.66 million passengers and was the UK’s 17th busiest airport, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. It accounted for a quarter of all Northern Ireland air passengers. Traffic was down by 32.4% over 2019, less recovered than UK airports generally (-25.2%). […]
March 27, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
TUI welcomed 11.30 million passengers last year with an 89% load factor, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While traffic was 4% lower than in 2019, it was still its third best year since 2008. To put the recovery into context, TUI had 1.73 million passengers last August, just 293,000 fewer than the whole […]
March 1, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
Norwegian on Friday 19 August began a new, 2-weekly service between Trondheim and Manchester. The 1,360-kilometre route will operate on Mondays and Fridays, with flight DY1350 scheduled to depart the Norwegian airport at 18:30 on both days. The service will operate until 14 November and then resume on 26 December. This unusual schedule gives a […]
August 24, 2022 | Latest Route News +
easyJet launched a new domestic route in the UK on Monday 27 June. It is now offering 3-weekly flights on the 480-kilometre route between Manchester and Inverness in Scotland. According to the airline’s website, services operate on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays until 13 October when a Thursday service is (briefly) added, before the service ends […]
July 6, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Gulf Air increased its presence in Europe with the launch of a number of new services recently, including non-stop service between Bahrain and Manchester. This new route to the UK launched on Wednesday 1 June. The 2-weekly service (the other flight is on Sundays) will operate using the airline’s 787-9s. The 5,270-kilometre route is not […]
June 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +