Cabo Verde Airlines introduced a new weekly service between Sal and Milan BGY on Saturday 4 November. The 4,440-kilometre service will be maintained with its 172-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft. It faces no competition. The carrier last maintained flights between the two cities in May 2016. Flight VR630 departs Sal at 08:00 local time, landing […]
November 14, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aerotalia opened its new base in Ancona on Sunday 1 October, launching several new routes. Rome FCO (2-daily) Milan LIN (12-weekly) Naples (daily) Vienna (2-weekly) Barcelona (2-weekly) Bucharest BBU (3-weekly) All flights will be operated by the 68-seat ATR72 turboprop aircraft wet-leased from Romania’s Air Connect. The three domestic services are operated as Public Service Obligation flights. […]
October 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air introduced flights between its Belgrade base and Milan BGY on Tuesday 26 September. The new 840-kilometre service will be maintained 5-weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays with the 230-seat A321 aircraft. The ULCC faces no direct competition on the route, however, Air Serbia maintains 8-weekly flights to Milan MXP. Wizz Air […]
September 29, 2023 | Latest Route News +
It’s been a record-breaking year so far for Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY), which saw unprecedented traffic in the first four months of 2023. Some 4.8 million passengers passed through the airport between January and April – up 42% compared to the same period last year. It adds the sense that Milan is bouncing back stronger […]
June 13, 2023 | Air Service Community News
Norwegian added seasonal flights from Norway’s second largest city of Bergen to Milan BGY on Sunday 30 April. The 1,655-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly with the carrier’s 186-seat 737-800 on Wednesdays and Sundays. It faces no direct competition on the route, with SAS operating seasonal flights between Bergen and Milan MXP. What they said […]
May 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
flydubai (IATA code FZ) launched a new European service on Friday 10 March. It now connects Dubai and Milan BGY with 5-weekly (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) flights using its 737 MAX 8s. Frequencies will grow to daily from 18 April. The 4,640-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier. This is the Italian […]
March 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Unlike Ryanair and Wizz Air, who have both increased their market share of European air travel since 2019, easyJet’s share has remained virtually unchanged at around 7.5%. This still makes it Europe’s second biggest carrier, well ahead of Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for 2023 Q2 indicated that easyJet’s […]
March 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair continues to grow its market share of European air travel. In the second quarter of this year, analysis of Cirium schedules data indicates that it will account for 14.6% of all scheduled seats from European airports. That is an increase of over three percentage points versus 2019 Q2. In this analysis we take a […]
March 3, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Milan Bergamo recorded its busiest ever month in December 2022, with more than 1,1 million passengers travelling through its terminal. The stats capped off what was a remarkable recovery year for the airport, which is now broadly back to its pre-pandemic performance and maintains its position as Italy’s third busiest airport. If 2022 was a […]
February 20, 2023 | Air Service Community News
According to figures recently published by Assaeroporti, Italy’s airports welcomed over 164 million passengers in 2022. That is more than twice as many as were handled in 2021 and, more impressively, only 15% fewer than the 193 million achieved in 2019. In September and October, the number of passengers passing through the country’s airports was […]
February 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Aeroitalia (IATA code XZ), the recently launched Italian carrier, on Monday 14 November introduced up to 3-daily flights between its new base at Milan BGY and Rome FCO. The 475-kilometre route connecting Italy’s two biggest cities will be flown using the airline’s 737-800s and faces no direct competition. However, there is significant indirect competition in […]
November 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Milan Bergamo is flying high as it goes into autumn. The airport saw a near-return to pre-pandemic passenger numbers in September, and the following month cut the ribbon on a new UPS warehouse that will help supercharge its cargo business. Winter also looks set to be busy for Bergamo. In addition to Ryanair’s new routes […]
November 11, 2022 | Air Service Community News