With this summer having been the first ‘normal’ travel summer since 2019, a look at airport passenger statistics across this period for the major European air travel markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Türkiye and the UK), reveals some interesting results. Comparing passenger demand for April to September in 2023 versus the same period in 2019 […]
November 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With the all-important Q3 (July-September) period fast approaching, Ryanair – Europe’s largest airline – has planned 56.7 million seats. According to Cirium schedules information data, its network-wide capacity has increased from 44.5 million in Q3 2019 – up by more than a quarter (+27.4%). The following figure shows how capacity has changed at Ryanair’s top […]
May 3, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of air passenger traffic data across Europe this winter suggests that recovery rates have pretty much flattened out in many countries and at many airports. With the start of the Northern Hemisphere Summer 2023 season (S23) just a week away, Air Service One has decided to take a look at which of Europe’s airports […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Back in June we revealed how among western Europe’s biggest country markets for air travel Germany was lagging significantly behind its rivals; France, Italy, Spain and the UK. Schedule data for June indicated that capacity was only at 75% of the level of June 2019, while the other major European countries were all at 85% […]
August 19, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Analysis of airport passenger data for April reveals that among Europe’s biggest air travel markets, Germany has been the slowest to recover. Passenger numbers were down 35% across German airports in April, compared with 27% in Turkey, 26% in the UK, 16% in Italy and just 12% in Spain. As it takes a while for […]
June 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Eurowings finally added the southern German airport at Memmingen to its route network when it introduced 3-weekly service to its hub at Palma de Mallorca on Saturday 14 May. It will also operate flights om Tuesdays and Thursdays for the rest of the summer using its A320-series fleet. Competition on the 1,115-kilometre route comes from […]
May 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Flights to Greek holiday destinations have been proving popular this summer. Ryanair added a new 2-weekly service on Tuesday 3 August between Memmingen in southern Germany and Rhodes, where it has opened a summer-only base. The inaugural service on the 1,950-kilometre route (flight number FR 7501, operated by a Boeing 737-800 registration EI-EVM) departed Rhodes […]
August 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air’s expansion in Germany is on-going, with the ULCC starting a new route on Sunday 4 July between Memmingen in southern Germany and Lviv. The 1,020-kilometre route will be served 2-weekly with flights on Thursdays and Sundays. The inaugural service (flight W6 6726 operated by an Airbus A321 registration HA-LXU) departed the German airport […]
July 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +